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“I have given skill to all the skillful, so that they may make all that I have commanded you. “ Exodus 31:6


“O Thou who art the all pervading glory of the world, we bless Thee for the power of beauty to gladden our hearts.
We praise Thee that even the least of us may feel a thrill of the creative joy when we give form and substance to our thoughts and, beholding our handiwork, find it good and fair. “.
Walter Rauschenbusch


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"Come, and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what He has done for me.
I cried out to Him with my mouth; His praise was on my tongue.
If I had cherished sin in my heart, the LORD woud not have listened and heard my voice in prayer.
Praise be to God, Who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me!" Psalm 66:16-20
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

February quilting

I'd like to share and make note of the two tops that I've worked on this month.

A couple of years ago, I hand appliqued the peels for an orange-peel quilt-top, made in shades of turquoise, green, and blue on background squares of whites printed with grey tones.

After appliqueing, I cut out from behind each peel, leaving a white-print smaller peel.  The scrapper in me just wouldn't let me throw away over a hundred of these little peels.

So, when my friend,  Jodie Ann passed away last month, I ran across, in my shelves, some yardage of solid red that was left over from a project that she had me do years ago.

In remembrance of her, for my own grief-healing, I machine appliqued those leftover white peels onto the red yardage.  This is the completed top.

Then, this week, I just started playing around with a design that I had sketched up in my notebook years ago.  It involved these "shadowed blocks".  I'm disappointed that they don't look more 3-dimensional than they do---I think that I used too dark a shade of grey for the shadow.  Or, maybe I just made the shadow part too small    Hmmmm....I'd really like to figure that out and try again sometime.


Anyway, I'm trying to finish it as a large couch throw for one of my brothers (Jeff), and have been using stash.  I'm sorry to say that I do not have enough of the Riley Blake print to make the side borders match the top and bottom borders, and the vertical sashes.  If you  have it in your stash and want to share a yard, please comment here and let's see how we can make that happen !

I am enjoying  spending time with my new  friend, Darleene Easley, who has asked me to teach her to quilt.  I have turned her and her husband into huge antique Singer sewing machine fans.......he's buying them up to service and resale, which blessed her with the acquisition of a couple for her own use !

Spring is trying to stand up to this month's rains and say, "I'm coming anyway, ready or not !"
 And, Lottie-dah still hasn't found a companion (besides me), but the search goes on.....in the meantime, she's fat, if not so very sassy.

 So, that's all for now.....and about time to crawl back into my pajamas after this beautiful day !  God bless you my friends, til we meet here again !


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