Home again

Just back from a weekend retreat.

:)

I took an applique project with me and

was able to complete my FIRST block

of a new project!

 

Believe it or not...

I was ALL OUT of hand projects

and had to scurry around

to get this one packed up!

 

I CAN.NOT. leave home for a retreat,

doctor appointment

or car trip

without some HANDWORK!!!

 

I hope to make a few of these blocks.

Eventually....I'll have enough

for a quilt!

Had a wonderful time with daughter.

I was in charge of a simple craft.

Tinted jars with knobs.

We painted on the "tint"
(modgepodge and food coloring)

Spray painted the lids

and added knobs.

 

Very simple.

 

Then...

I came home to babysit this....

HAPPY face!

Slow going

I am a pretty QUICK quilter...

but some things Just take TIME!!!

 

This quilt is ONE of them!!!

It's teaching me patience.

 

I surely need more of that!

;)

These are my tools.

My Mission:

Get this one done for my daughter

before she gets married on

MAY 5!!!

Eeeek!

 

I've committed my Thursday mornings to the task.

No MATTER WHAT I feel like doing!!!

:/

 

Will it get done??
Inquiring minds would like to know...

SO....my friends....

would I!!!!

 

I began this quilt way back HERE!!!

I am appliqueing each finished circle

onto a BIG (bed sized) piece of muslin.

I baste them on...

then I applique them on.

I am NOT following the directions.

:/

Do I EVER????

Nah!

That would be too EASY!

LOL!

Vines and Leaves

I'm adding some applique to this quilt!

I cut some leaves Free hand

and am adding them

ONE by ONE

on to that curvy vine!

 

The light border I'm putting them on is

a VERY generous 10" wide.

LOTS of room to play!!!

I pinned them on HERE and there.

I don't think this kind of applique

needs or WANTS a pattern.

 

Leaves are ALL so individual in REAL life!

See my use of THREE different white/lights??

First there was the muslin pieced with the triangles.

THEN

There was the muslin with sparkly freckles!

A gold sashing.

And then.....

a very light white/gold floral.

 

THAT, my friends, is what you do

when you have LOTS of fabric

but NOT lots of the SAME fabric!!

:)

I'm almost done with the purple leaves.

I'll switch thread color soon

and work on the greens.

Hey!

I might even get busy and make some BERRIES!!!

I think they'd be VERY happy in this quilt!

 

Hawaiian pillow

My Mother-in-law wants to make a pillow......

Hawaiian STYLE!

This is NOT a project I would have ever chosen on my own....

but when sweet Mother-in-law wants something....

then sweet Mother-in-law gets it!!!! ;)

I'm making one so that I can help HER make one.

We've made a few quilts together and I enjoy

the process and the time we're able to spend together

doing something fun!!!

There I was needleturning this yesterday as I sat in a hospital room

with a relative......

Thinking....

 I don't see too many quilts using this pattern in blogland.

Well!!!!!

Look what I saw when I got home from the hospital!

Victoria is making THIS!!!!!

NO...it's not Hawaiian quilting....

But it IS

AMAZING!!!

Here's the pattern my Mother-in-law and I are using.

Simple.

Victoria sure has me thinking about

some possibilities though!!!

Next up...

I need to begin handquilting this.

:)