Design Wall Monday - April 28, 2025

Good Morning Quilters!

I confess I am in a quilting slump right now.  There was no progress on the two UFOs that I have out this month.  But I did make a little progress on a Snowmen A to Z redwork block.  This block is finished except for the shading of lines on the big letter B:

Since I was not working on the Cousin’s Walk appliqué quilt or the Jane Stickle blue and shirting quilt, what was I doing?  I knitted dish cloths.  They are made of 100% cotton yarn, and are easy to make.  I made one……then another……and am half way on a third.  I shall continue until my quilting mojo returns.  Here’s a picture:

I have a notebook full of dish cloth patterns collected through the years.  

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Design Wall Monday - April 21, 2025

Good morning Quilters!

Happy Easter!    

This week has been busy with family and church activities, so quilting has taken a back seat for me.

All I have to show you is a little progress on my redwork Christmas alphabet quilt project.  Here are two completed blocks and a third in progress:

C for Candy Canes

H for Holly Berries

And the one I’m working on now….B for Bells

As I said before, it was a slow week, quilting wise.  As for humor, there was an abundance of that with me, as usual.  Here is one example.  

Every Easter I make a lamb cake,  using a mold in the shape of a lamb.  I decorate it with white frosting, coconut, jelly beans for eyes, and usually a necklace.  A grandson helped me dye coconut green for grass, and we spread jelly bean eggs in the grass around the lamb.  This year’s lamb was listing a little bit to the left, but seemed to be stable when we finished.  Our son took a picture:

Well, about a half hour before dinner, my son laughed and told me that the lamb’s head had fallen off!  The Grandkids thought it was very funny, and the Great Grandson was only 2 and took no notice of the tradegy.  Here is the lamb before we served him as dessert:

Happy Easter cake was enjoyed by all.  What is happening in your life this week?  Please join our Design Wall Monday Linky Party below and tell us what you are doing.  I am so happy you all participate and we get a peek into your lives.  Thank you.

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Design Wall Monday - April 14, 2025

 Good Morning Quilters!

Last week, Rebecca Grace  (RebeccaGraceQuilting.com)  talked about Jane Stickle’s quilt on her blog, and also linked her post to our Design Wall Monday Linky Party.  Thank you Rebecca for that post.  I recommend we all read her post…..lots of info about this quilt.  If you want to read about my first Jane Stickle quilt, you can read my post about mine (Here)

I put my second version Jane Stickle Quilt blocks on my design wall last week, at least part of them.  I hope this will give me incentive to finish this quilt.  I started by randomly picking a block to do, when I found one that looked like fun.  But now it is time to fill in the holes, and get complete rows finished.  There are 13 blocks in each row, and what you see here are the first 6 rows.  I have row A and row F blocks complete.  This quilt is quite a journey, but I enjoy each block - they are so interesting, and I learn so much.

I made this quilt in the colors and fabric designs very similar to the original quilt when I first made it.  My second version, above, will be made with shirting fabrics and blues.  If I had thought about it sooner, I would have planned dark/light blocks to show a “trip around the world” pattern in the block layout.  I could do it now, if I changed the order of the blocks, to put the darker ones in some sort of diamond order.  I look at this quilt as a great learning tool.  I have learned so much making the first one, and am refining my skills in this second version.

The weather is getting warmer finally, and I worked out in my flower bed yesterday.  It was so nice to be outside.    The wreath on the front door had some wrens perching on it and singing, so I have taken the wreath inside for a few days - to help them find a more suitable place to build a nest.  

My birthday is Wednesday, and I will be 82.  There are still so many quilts that I want to make, and time passes so quickly.  I may have to give some UFO’s away as I think  about all the ones in my stash.  But I love them all.  

To start my birthday week, hubby and I are going out to breakfast today with a dear neighbor and her husband.  She and I have the same birthdate…. (but mine of course,  is several years before hers).  So the four of us celebrate by going out for breakfast sometime near our mutual birthdays.  

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Design Wall Monday - April 7, 2025

Good Morning Quilters!

I just got home from a quilt retreat.  Each time I go, I work on blocks for a Jane Stickle quilt.  I cut the book “Dear Jane” apart, and have each of the book’s block picture by each of my blocks.  I am a little over half way making the 169 blocks for this quilt.  Here are the blocks I completed at the retreat:

The blocks finish at five inches each.  Since I got this UFO out to work on at the retreat, I think I will leave it out and work on it some more.  I am re-inspired.  Yeah!

Several ladies attending the retreat are each making the same quilt, Cousin’s Walk.  I have been struggling to finish mine up.  Here are pictures of some of the ladies and their versions of the quilt.  Each quilt has a charm of its own.

I think I missed a few of the ladies and their quilts, it was an impromptu show out in the hallway.  They are all so interesting.  

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