Wood and Flowers

Sixth finish of the 3rd quarter is a small runner/wallhanging that came from a previous finish.

 The runner here was going to be too long if using all the parts so I saved out a bit. Hand quilted it trying to make a wood grain since the inspiration for this pattern was a set of stairs. Would have worked better if done on the sewing machine but still pretty cool. My bro-in-law liked it!:)

 Finally finished all the flowers but when putting them on the floor I didn't like how they looked AND it would barely be a lapsized quilt! Want it to be bigger. Not making more of those puppies so...

 ...fifty-four 10" squares were cut out of the leftover prints and Grunge solids. This will be so much easier than sewing all the flowers together...and versatile.  Fifty-two more to go!!

Fall is definitely in the air.  Blackberries are done. Tomato and pepper plants are waning.  

Time to clean out and plant Fall greens!

How is your garden doing?

~d

Third quarter list.

Different way to applique...at least for me!

My boss went to Amsterdam meeting up with one of our loyal online customers.  This lady does amazing hand work...in fact she will have a quilt in Quilt Mania soon and I don't think it's the first time!  She showed Carly how she prepares her bits for hand stitching....a tracing wheel and a piece of leather! 

 (I used a piece of pleather...worked fine.)

Carly knows I love to do handwork and not only showed me this new way but bought me a lovely wooden handled tracing wheel. All you do is trace your pattern piece on the wrong side of the fabric and the edges curl up....turning under so easily!

 Makes appliqueing a few leaves for a baby quilt a snap!:) 

 Used some of the Chenille-It to add the wee ones initials and embroidered the year to the left.

 Now our girl needs to send it to her friends in Canada!:)

Set the last quilt top hanging in the closet free...now it is basted awaiting hand quilting.  

It's just too hot right now!

But the temperature is perfect for peppers!

~d

5th finish of the 3rd quarter.  The List.

Bitty Block Bee meets Clock-Along!!

 This past year I have participated in the Bitty Block Bee.  There were 14 of us and each month one of us was Queen/King Bee, picked a theme and received two 3 1/2" or 6 1/2" blocks from each member for a total of 26 blocks.
The month of May rolled in and it was my turn to be Queen!  I was inspired by some fruit and veggie blocks on text fabrics seen while perusing Flickr AND wanted to make a clock.  Yo peeps, could you each pick a Roman numeral 1-12 and a fruit or veggie and one of you  make me some clock hands?

They were game and more than rose to the occasion! Here are the blocks all put together that those crazy creative folks made for me!! 

All I did was highlight the numerals with a black running stitch and do a bit of quilting.

At the Mini QT Swap we are having a Clock-Along.  A couple of the lovely ladies (Marilyn and Ruthie) made up a tutorial for us to follow which made it soooo easy for me! 

In this photo you can just make out some buttons we received when our girl was at West Virginia University...left them there so you could see how big it is....21" square!

I love it!  Thanks Bee Buddies!

I bought more clock works because it's a great gift to make with orphan blocks!

I was going to put some buttons on the clock then I found the huge hands so that idea went out the window but my buttons now have a new home cause...

...my pal Sandie gave me this HUGE glass Ball jar for my perle cottons!!:)

See that little project next to my sewing machine?

Now it's an oh so cute little zippy bag made from a pattern called 

This and That Suzy's Sack and some Shelburne Falls!!:)

Gotta love plaid!:)

~d