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Thursday, March 3, 2022
The Giant Star QOV
I choose to dedicate a lot of time to these Quilts Of Valor, believing that our military risks everything for us and I will not offer anything less than my best to them.
The only blocks that are the same in this quilt are the large triangles on each side, I thought it was more balanced keeping them alike.
After the first corner square I decided I would be too bored making them all the same!
And since I had begun with the stars I made stars in each one.
The star points have alternating swirls and peacock feathers.
Feathers are my default motif, and I like the contrast of straight lines.
Also I admit I love the creative freedom of making it up as I go along so I never know how the design will look until it's finished. I used Quilters Dream 80/20 batting and a neutral thread. I'm very happy with the Giant Star quilt, it was fun to quilt and tomorrow they both return to the quilter who will bind and label them.
Thursday, February 24, 2022
A New Great granddaughter
The Atwood girls are finally catching up! Watch out world these amazing women are the next generation!Annelyse June Atwood arrived a little early as is usual for her very prompt Momma! Both of her siblings were a couple of weeks early also. Weighing in at 6lbs.14 ozs. And 21.25 inches long she is just perfect. I will post a photo as soon as I get one! She joins sister Paisley and brother Sterling. Her quilt is below in Ashlee’s requested colors, pink and teal.
A bright and delightful quilt for our newest baby girl. Congratulations to Mom Ashlee and proud Daddy Daniel. You are doing a great job populating the world with smart, wonderful human beings.Another baby quilt for a baby girl due next month for extended family members. Mom’s requested colors for Isla Sofia’s quilt are sage/cactus green/tan and dusty pink, I really had no appropriate greens so of course I had to go fabric shopping.
This is a different version of the pink and grey quilt from earlier this month. The 5” squares go together fast and the pink applique flowers, flange and binding make it definitely feminine.The simple one color backing shows off the detailed quilting.
Log Cabin Beads
This beautiful quilt came from Texas and I love it enough to want to make one too! It took me a few days to figure out how I wanted to quilt it but it really needed custom and the feather wreaths in the beads were easy but oh those circles took me a very long time using different sizes of templates.
Layla’s backing
In AZ the room will need to be chilled for the summer,LOL.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Rescuing A Quilt
A friend brought me the quilt her Grandmother made for her as an infant so it's close to 80 years old and has had good use. Consequently the binding is frayed and the area at the top of the quilt has deteriorated to the point that it really isn't useable.
As you can see some of the damage is extensive and had to be removed.Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Oh My Goodness!
That's all I could say when I realised how slack I have been about blogging, and I have noticed that some of my fellow bloggers are even worse! Not that I haven't thought about it and knowing I was soooo far behind wondering how I would catch up, but life has been harder and my "spare" time less!
In addition to the global covid debacle and my husband's cancer treatments and entertaining two days a week our now 15 month old delightful granddaughter, there's the fact that I finally succumbed to covid at Christmas time and ended up with double pneumonia! I had easily avoided the infection for two years until we all went to Boston for Christmas and on the fifth day there came down with a variant, something I had not yet been exposed to. It went through the entire family and for everyone else it was like a cold or a bit of a cough but I became very very ill. I do believe that my lungs have finally cleared as I am no longer wheezing and returned to the gym this week with no adverse effects except for some mild soreness in muscles that had not been used for a couple of months!
The gorgeous Emma at one year!