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Prettiest Flower in the Garden

Last Monday I took my youngest granddaughter to the Denver Botanical Gardens for her fourth birthday. I think she had fun, don’t you?

It was a beautiful day with a beautiful granddaughter.

On the quilting front – my projects are going slow, but some progress has been made. The binding and sleeve for Starry Night Hexies was sewn down

and all the hand-stitching was completed yesterday.

The machine stitching in the background is straight lines alternating up & down and across. It was slow going, but gave me practice with ruler work. I am glad that it is finished and very happy with the quilt.

May is the month for quilts from recycled shirts. My sewing room looks like a tornado went through, but hopefully it will all be under control by the end of the month. It is all my own dang fault, since I started two new recycled shirt projects to go along with the four already started. The goal is to have at least two quilt tops completed by the end of the month. We shall see how that works out.

Happy Mother’s Day

Marlene

Starry Night Hexies

Saturday Progress Report

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Two of the projects that I want completed by the end of the year are the Swing Your Partner and Starry Night Hexies. Only three more blocks need to be made for the Swing Your Partner quilt top.

Although Bonnie Hunter used HST as sashing in her quilt, I plan to do something different. By the time the last three blocks are completed, I should have it all planned out.

Starry Night Hexies is coming together slowly since so much of it is hand work. All the full hexie flowers are in the process of being sewn down on the background while three more half hexie flowers need to be made.

I also made a trial block for a quilt that I am calling Elephants on Parade. The pattern is Aromatic Rings in the book Rainbow Quilts by Judy Gauthier. This quilt top is on my 2019 goal list.

Each block is 25″ square finished with a 3 x 3 setting. This is going to be a fun quilt to make and it looks even better than the image in my head.

Happy Holidays,

Marlene

Design Wall Monday 12-03-18

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Last week I was busy working on a gift, so no pictures until later. However I did find time in the evenings for hand stitching the hexies for Starry Night.

All 10 of the full hexie flowers are completed, so now they are being stitched onto the background. I am also working on the 4 half-hexie flowers.

One of my favorite things to do at a thrift store is pick up old quilt books especially the series Great American Quilts by Leisure Arts. I am always on the lookout for different or unusual quilt blocks and I found one in the Great American Quilts 1993. The name of the block is Texas Star.

Isn’t it great? It really wasn’t difficult to piece although you need to be gentle with the bias. The plan is to make 6 blocks to form a star.

Check out all the other quilting inspiration at Judy’s Design Wall Monday.

Marlene

A Little Bit of This – A Little Bit of That

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Call me Tiggr – I have been bouncing around from project to project. First up – another Starry Night Hexie has been completed. This is number 6 out of 10 full hexagon flowers for the wallhanging.

Each one is an adventure with a surprise at the finish.

Two more Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler blocks have been added to design wall.

A-7

N-9

My first thought was to alternate dark red & green cornerstones in the sashing. However I knew it was a mistake as soon as I saw it on the design wall – too dark & too distracting.

What if the cornerstones were a different fabric close in color to the sashing strips?

The cornerstone fabric isn’t noticeable from a distance, but is a nice surprise upon closer inspection. Only two more blocks until the top row is completed and a sashing row attached.

Have a good weekend,

Marlene

Design Wall Monday 09-24-18