A Basket Full of Hope |
I need to get back to these. |
12" on the back piece. |
A Basket Full of Hope |
I need to get back to these. |
12" on the back piece. |
A very Happy Fathers's Day to all the father's put there, including my sons and grandsons!
As I said in my last post about the Sweet William quilt, I have another very old project that I have been making progress on. It is from an Edyta Sitar book "Handfuls of Scraps", Flower Garden.
All the hexagon flowers are completed and I put them up on the design wall to arrange their placement. Now to get this top sewn together. I still have quite a few neutral hexies to baste, but will do that as I go along.
Sorry! Not a very good photo. |
My progress so far, I have a long way to go. Plus, I need to decide on the border.
I have really gotten hooked by the Hexie bug! I have been looking for ideas on Pinterest and came across the most amazing hexagon quilt on called La Passion by Grit Kovacs. It is really an ambitious project and I thought the pattern would be expensive. It wasn't! I was able to download it from her online store for $9.54 US dollars. Below is a photo of the quilt and here is a LINK to the pattern. Here is a LINK to her blog where you can see lots of photos and different versions of this quilt. There are 17,300 hexies sized 1/2" in this quilt, not sure if I could do that, we will see.
Turid"s La Passion |
Turid's Mini La Passon |
I also bought this pattern by Rachaeldaisy Designs.
Sorry for such a long post! Hope to link up with Kathy and the other Stitchers today, HERE I will be stitching hexies. Happy Quilting, Rebecca
I was really stuck on what to do for borders on my first Bramble Blooms top and since the second version is underway I thought I had better get serious and come up with something. Audrey of Quilty Folk blog is hosting the sew along (thank you so much Audrey!) You can read her blog HERE She began the second one in the series with ideas from Sujata Shah's book "Cultural Fusion Quilts". I got my copy out and study it for a few days, I finally decided to try some Flying Geese.
Here is a photo of what I have so far. I am looking for input! More Flying Geese? Is there too much gold, not enough? More red flying geese? More green? Hourglass cornerstones or not? The red strips to the side will be the next border and then maybe a light border with applique ??.
I am linking up with Judy at Small Quilts and Doll quilts for Design Wall Monday HERE.
More next time on that old UFO, I had no time to write the blog post. Happy Quilting, Rebecca
So while my Bramble Blooms has stalled I am trying to make make progress on some very old projects. The first one I will share with you today. I had almost just given up on this one, but when I got it out and looked at it, I fell in love with this quilt again. I had already hand pieced all the baskets, I just need to do the applique portion. I have six blocks completed and now have all the other blocks prepped for applique. Everything is organized and I can grab a block when I have time and applique it.
My six finished blocks. |
The rest of the 30 blocks all prepped and ready to sew. |
I have six blocks in each of these zip bags. |
The zip bags are all tucked away in my new Yazzii bag. |
I will be working on this block today, I know it is looks like a blob of lavender, but they are each separate petals for the flower. I will be linking up with Kathy' HERE and all the other Slow Stitchers as soon as I can, I don;t think there is anything better than doing some slow stitching!
Photo of the original quilt made in 1860 Pennsylvania. |
Photo of the original found in this book. |
Susan Smith created this pattern. On closer inspection I see she did not copy the blocks exactly. |
Next time I will share the progress on another very old UFO. Happy Quilting! Rebecca
I am sorry to say I have made no progress on my Bramble Blooms, it looks just like it did before. We had a family issue that took my creativity on a nose dive. I do hope to add the next round soon. I am so amazed at everyone's creations!
I did do some mindless sewing and got two tops put together. The first one is from Barbara Brackman's Herbarium Bom.
The second one is an old UFO from the Rainbow Scrap Challenge in 2019.
Angela posted a block per week in the color of the month. Here is a LINK to the page that has links and PDFs of all of the patterns.
I've been doing a little baking. An apple pie and once the pie was gone I made some blueberry cream cheese bread.
A link to the recipe, HERE |
Since my husband is diabetic I use the sweetener below, It is the best I have found so far.
The Weather has sure changed direction here! It was 20* above zero today, so thankful!
Bramble Blooms is done, at least until the next prompt from Audrey. (No hurry Audrey!!) If down the road I feel it needs something else I can add it later. For now though I am happy with what I have.
There is an interesting story. I ordered 5 yards of background fabric, in the picture below. This is from the website. At least what I thought I was ordering!
The cold weather is still with us. We are keeping both wood stoves going 24/7. We are getting more daylight so that is encouraging. The weather forecasters continue to tell us that a warming trend is coming, just not here yet. Hopefully soon! I hope you will read to the end, we had some visitors!
This was taken Friday morning about 8 am, -54 to -55 |
Now onto to quilting. Have you ever seen a fabric or fabric collection and you immediately you think of someone that it fits perfectly? That has happened to me a few times, one example pictured below, was a quilt I made for a granddaughter last Christmas. She LOVES octupusses! When I saw the Kaffe Fassett octopus fabric I said Ashlee.
This is a throw size quilt and she loved it. Minky on the back! |
When I saw this layer cake of Tradewinds by Renee Nannemann, my sister's name popped in my head. It was a Missouri Star daily deal so I ordered it immediately. There are only two aqua/turquoise fabrics included in the collection so I did order some different aqua fabric to add to it, plus for the quilt I have in mind I needed background fabric, sashing and etc., those are order too.
I am fussy cutting the floral fabric for the center hexies. |
So I happened to look out the window and saw this moose.