Just some random items I've been working on.
Found the small quilt pictured to the right,
I'd made it around 2002...
It was my 4th of July quilted wall hanging.
I had a lot of the rust colored plaid squares
decided I like the tan and dark blue stars print
with the plaid...
Put it together in a round the world pattern.
Added star applique's in the corners.
I was delighted with the way the quilt seemed to float
when I added the dark blue boarder,
You are actually looking at it sideways,
there is a sleve sewn into the far right side for hanging it up.
When I say found,
it wasn't really lost,
just packed away
because if my unusual living conditions the last several years.
The next photo,
is the Autumn block for my Calendar holder...
The Calendar holder is explained in previous blogs.
I saw a quilt block in a magazine
that had two trees with autumn colored foliage...
Done in the no sew method.
ie.;
iron on fusing,
pieces cut out and ironed onto the back ground.
Since this is for a Calendar wall hanging,
and there will never be any washing,
this was a chance to play with this method with no worries.
I went with one tree,
and if you look closely, maybe you can see
the young child playing in the pile of leaves,
with a rake leaning against the tree
and a pet dog watching and maybe waiting to join in the fun.
I did minimal quilting around the larger objects and a couple of clouds in the sky.
Photo number 3,
is the next applique block
for "My Whimsical Garden."
I've mentioned this quilt many times before,
So I'll not go into too many details right now.
I've got one last many leaved stalk to do
on the right hand side of the square...
You can just make out the sketch on the paper...
It's my travel project,
and I take it with me when I'm off traipsing around the country side.
Not a quilt I'm in a hurry to complete.
But it's getting there one block at a time. This is the third block of twenty.
The last photo is a sweet water color painting
Done by my 6 year old Grandson.
I loved the fat little bird...
and the colors he used.
It is so cheerful and happy-
It's maybe going to need to be a little
Quilted wall hanging someday.
His sister is pretty talented also,
She has a drawing for me of how she thinks
the Winter square for the Calendar Holder should be.
I think her idea is perfect with a snowman at winter.
Looking forward to getting that done...
I didn't take a photo of the other project I'd been working on,
It wasn't my quilt to show off really...
My next door neighbor Marti,
Had taken some quilting classes;
and she has discovered that she likes the quiting part of the process,
and not the sewing together of the quilt tops...
She was stuck after a mystery quilt class,
and just did not want to finish or even look at the quilt top-
So she'd asked me to suare up what she'd completed
and add the borders, so she could get on to the part she likes
the actual hand quilting...
I did get that done for her also this past bit of time since my last blog.
