Showing posts with label Yellow bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yellow bird. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

So...Yesterday...

Forgotten Quilts I have made...."Yellow Bird" :
Now hanging on someone's wall.
"Homemade Pasta" in gray and pink:
Oilcloth pouch with window. I think I need  more of these myself.
"Concussion"  Made after my terrible concussion.
Gifted to Sean, in Ireland since he too had a concussion..way worse than mine.
A Happy Turquoise Scrap:
My purple "X"...One of my very favorite scrap quilt patterns:
One of  my first quilts...also..not finished...UGH
Georgia Bonesteel came to Miami...maybe 40 years ago
Everything is hand pieced and quilted and appliqued.
I never got into the Quilt- As- You Go thing...
And the batting is awful...I might try to make it smaller.
This is such a better picture of Great Aunt Carl's gardenia rooting.
I have been looking again, through old quilt pictures.
Here...getting nothing done!!!

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Yellow Bird and the lazy sewist...

When I first got the new medallion book by Gwen Marston, I just had to make another medallion quilt.  Being me, I started two at the same time.  Yellow Bird, here,  is one of them and is all done.  Yesterday when I discovered that I could free-motion quilt, I was unstoppable!  I quilted so much, that both feet were alternately used on the pedal!!  Alas, there is a problem and that is my fault for being so very lazy.  When I was supposed to be resting, I was piecing this quilt.  When a quilt has so many borders like this one, each border has to be measured from the center in order to lie flat.....I did not do this because I was a whiz...whizzing along without thinking being oh, so lazy in the process..Now, my dear Yellow Bird has very wavy edges...I mean very wavy edges and I am afraid that no little baby will ever want it(:  That is what I get for taking the easy way out.



Now, to someone who is NOT lazy...that being Mr. O'Quilts.  He is a peach nut.  He drove to the farmer's market yesterday, as he does each year, to buy huge baskets of peaches.  The peaches he buys have spots on them which he removes in order to wash and freeze peaches for the winter.  It is the end of peach season here in the Carolinas.  My man gets his $25 peach baskets for $5.  It is the farmer in him, having grown up in the country.  Peach milkshakes, peach fruit pizza, peaches on his cerael...all winter long....Way to go honey.