Today I worked on my Temecula Summer Sew-along blocks.
I was 3 weeks behind…but now I’m all caught up.
And I hung the finished spool quilt. It adds a cheerful touch to my room and makes me smile.
Now I have spool stacks on two walls. ☺
But the highlight of my day was getting these Fig Tree Patterns in the mail from Staci of The Confused Quilter.
She had a giveaway and I won!! Woohoo!
Thank you so much Staci. They are absolutely beautiful!
Sudden inspiration hit me this morning while reading Thelma’s blog. I’ve seen these pretty little spools of Camille’s out in blogland, but when Thelma mentioned her idea of matching her sewing room, I was smitten.
I found Camille’s website and ordered the download version of the pattern. Quick and easy! I rummaged through my fabrics looking for yellow’s and red’s and started cutting away.
My granddaughter popped in to spend the afternoon with me so I dropped everything to play with her…
…until her naptime…then I was back at it.
And before evening, while there was still sunshine enough to take a picture outside, I had a new wall hanging pieced for my sewing room!
What fun day!
A few months ago I cut out all the pieces to make this crib size quilt. But then set them aside to concentrate on my little houses.
Now, at last, it’s all pieced and ready for for the stems to be appliquéd.
It went together pretty quick…
and was worth the wait.
Ta-da! I’m all finished with the top.
All 8,063 pieces!!
So happy!
After it’s quilted, I’m thinking of making a wavy border edge. I’m going to have to do some homework on it first however. Math is involved and math and I are not friends.
Thanks for the encouragement so many of you gave. It really kept me going.
Quilting people are awesome!
Only 12 more houses left to sew.
I can hardly believe it!
I shouldn’t even be here at the computer…
“Annette, get back to that sewing machine right now!
Keep going… you’re almost there.”
My goal is to be at my super talented quilter’s doorstep next week.
In my last post I told you I had 71 more houses left to make…
Well now I only have 38 to go.
Since the beginning, I’ve marked the little houses off one by one as they were finished…
and the end is at long last in sight.
I am so excited!
And this sewing box that Mr. Sunshine and I bought when we were in Astoria, Oregon (where we dove into an antique shop to get out of the rain and found it)…
I took it all apart and have been sanding it down and getting it ready to refinish.
And I’m back to my houses again. I reworked my center block a little…found a couple to put in the window and added a sentiment that feels like the theme of this quilt.
My house total for end of June is 295 houses.
Only 71 more to go.
It’s getting exciting!!
All done! And hanging in my kitchen.
I took the quilt outside for pictures but the sun is much too bright to get a good one. While I was out there I looked around in our garden and found these…
Our tomatoes and green peppers are loving all that good sunshine.
One of my favorite things of summer…fresh tomatoes from our own garden. I’m getting excited!
These log cabin blocks have been the “star” of my sewing room lately…
Only two more rows to go…
…and then I can get back to my neglected little houses again.
My total house count to date is 234. Only 18 houses this past month… oops… good thing I was already ahead. I promise I’m still hanging in there to the finish.
But who can blame me… I have been a little side tracked spending time with these two… and the rest of the family. Our summer has been pretty full so far.
And I also got a little distracted with a new project. I saw a log cabin quilt on page 47 of the latest Quilt Sampler magazine (Broken Star Log Cabin) and I was smitten. Now the house blocks have to share sewing time with my new log cabin blocks. These will finish at 4 1/2”.
Oh, and I’m not the only one who’s been busy … I spied these while visiting at my mother-in-law’s home. This huge vase holds almost 500 yo-yo’s! They are awesome to look at and my granddaughter calls them flowers. I just had to share them with you.
I came across this old candle holder and it seemed to call out to me,
“Make me into a pincushion!”
So I did.
As a gift for my daughter…
with love.
And thanks so much to Kathy for the lovely pincushion pattern.
I’ve long admired Natalie Jo’s blog, Picalilli Days. She makes the most beautiful pincushions and this year she was so generous to run a tutorial on how we could make one of our own.
So I tried it.
It was fun but it wasn’t easy.
I really like my little girl pincushion
but it’s probably the only one I’ll ever make.
Besides a wonderful talent, Natalie Jo has a lot of patience. I admire her skills even more now.
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