Days are cooler now and a couple nights have been actually cold! Love it! My Energy is coming back! Can't work as I would like when we have high heat and humidity! My sewing room is on the second floor and is very comfortable in the Winter but hot in the summer. So, I set up a cutting station on my dining room table and did a bunch of prep work! And I can always read books and magazines even when it's hot!
First photo is of a little quilt (actually #2 of the same quilt except sashings are different) I made.....inspired by Kathy Tracy's Quilt of the Month on her Yahoo Group, SmallQuiltTalk. My blocks are slightly larger as I wanted to kinda showcase some larger print fabrics that I love and wanted to use! Had so many favorites it was hard to choose which ones to use......may have to make a larger quilt in the same simple format! I like simple patterned quilts that let the beauty of the fabrics shine through! The first quilt I made had lighter sashings and I decided I would like slightly darker sashings..... just love this old Apple Cider line from P&B! I'll take a photo of the other quilt and show it another time.....camera lost its charge!
These are six little Ohio Star blocks (need six more) for a current Jo Morton Club. Tonight I'll sit with my boxes of scraps and pick out the fabrics for the rest of the blocks. And also have some 4-patches of Yet Another Project that I need to clip the centers so the seams will go where I want them to go! AND, I am nearly finished handquilting my little Applecore Table Runner....try to work on it each evening but sometimes I fall asleep with my needle in my hand!
This is a quilt block I picked up in PA in June when I went with my friend Judy to her home in Doylestown (lovely town!) to get the quilts ready that she needed for her exhibit at the Maine Quilt show. I wanted a little souvenir of my trip and found this in an antique shop......this block is in very good condition....some color migration of the green but the reds are vibrant! Workmanship is superb! Another highlight of our trip was to go the the cool movie theater matinee on the first hot day......we saw "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and I highly recommend it! Hadn't been to a matinee movie in decades!
My Gardening time has decreased to nearly nil in the recent past few years but I planted this Hydrangea bush at the corner of my shop Many Years Ago.....had no idea it would grow to this size! It is beautiful but gigantic! Obstructs my view of my shop driveway from the house! One of my granddaughters, now grown, peeked in the middle of it and said she could have used the center for a hideaway playhouse when she was little!
I love all of your little projects.....especially that flying geese one! Fun! And so precise with the paper piecing! Love it!
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to fit sewing time in, even if in small periods....do have one little mini runner finished....will get that up soon! Right now I am listening to a great audiobook "Atlas Shrugged" and that pulls me to the sewing room too!
DeleteLove the Stars. Wonderful colour choices. Quilt 1 with all those beautiful big prints looks wonderful too. Keep having Fun :-)
ReplyDeleteHave been working with earlier 1800 prints lately and they are apt to be large prints so I have been looking for other ways to use them....this quick little quilt fit the bill!
DeleteI am with you I am not sold on that no waste method of flying geese I love my flying geese ruler. Ok so where was this antique store???? love that block !!!!! keep going on the projects they will get done eventually!
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Hi Kathie! Welcome back from your break....had asked Judy if she knew if all was well with you and she said you just needed a break. Actually, I love the No-Waste method but wanted to experiment to see if the p-p method was quicker and I don't think it is BUT it is more perfect! I tried out a FG ruler but isn't the sewing the same? Maybe there's a new method I haven't seen yet! Might have to ask Judy where the antique shop was.....it was near a place that had a lot of little shops ....had my first gelato there! Isn't that awful? Can't remember the name of the shop or the name of the town! Judy will know....
DeleteI'm with you about the cooler weather, Cyndi. Warm days with no humidity and cool nights...perfect!
ReplyDeleteThe projects you're working on are so inspirational. I need to prep a bunch of things that I can finish while sitting in the kitchen watching and training our new puppy.
We're planning a trip down your way sometime in October or early November and if we do, you know where my first stop will be. Hope to see you then.
BTW, you can hard prune your hydrangea and by the end of the following growing season, you'll never know the difference.
Hi Kaaren....love this new method of replying (at least new to me!).....had thought when we hit reply here in the Comments section that our reply simply followed each comment.....maybe because I clicked on "Subscribe by Email" but I thought that just sent the comments to my email Inbox. Anyway...nice to hear from you and will be happy to see you later in the fall.....will not be around the weekend of 12,13,14 as I will be vending at a show in NH.....first time to travel to vend....we'll see how it goes! I did prune the Hydrangea a couple of years ago in Jan/Feb as directed by article in gardening magazine....thought I might get a summer before it grew so large again, but I didn't....came back bigger and better! My mother had my great-grandmother's "Wigeila"(spelling doesn't look right!) also known around here as Beauty Bush. She cut it down (it's like a tree) to the ground and it came back bigger and better!
DeleteLove all your current works in progress! Those tiny Flying Geese are adorable. I have yardage of several of that Apple Cider line too. Wish they would reprint it. It goes with everything.
ReplyDeleteP&B has made about 8 new lines of that Apple Cider fabric but the first ones were the best!
DeleteYour projects are going to be lovely as usual Cyndi and that is quite the hydrangea!
ReplyDeleteI was ready to see fall arrive this year, seems like our Maine summers get hotter and hotter. I was told by a family member that our humidity was worse to deal with than Florida's where she lives.
Nice to hear from you Nancy! It is so good to be able to sew/work without dripping in sweat!
Deleteditto to the above comments, and yeah, those teeny tiny flying geese....superb!
ReplyDeleteHi, Cyndi,
ReplyDeleteThis morning you were talking about having only a .csv file for your email list. I found a couple of websites that would help you to get the list back. Not sure what you have for a mail client but you can use the info from http://oreilly.com/pub/h/2735 if it's gmail, and if it's outlook you can get the information from here - http://answers.uchicago.edu/page.php?id=19079 Hope that helps ! Deb T.