Posy Patch
64 x 64
It's a flimsy!
Well, I actually intended for it to be 56 x 72 but I guess it was not meant to be.
My goal was 63 blocks for a 7 x 9 block layout. At the beginning of this month I had 52 blocks. This month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color is yellow so I made 6 yellow Posies.
Since I was so close to my goal of 63 blocks I made 5 more blocks and met my goal.
I've been making these out of florals- floral blocks made out of florals with floral backgrounds.
I decided since I had enough blocks I might as well go ahead and assemble the top.
I don't put blocks on a design wall (bed,floor, etc.) and usually just randomly sew blocks together -webbing them as I go. So, I thought I had nine rows down when I started webbing but only had 8 rows. After webbing I had one block left over but thought I must have originally miscounted blocks.
So after I web blocks I start at the top and cut one row at a time from the web, iron seams between blocks, sew it to next row, iron row seam and so on.
It wasn't until I got to the last row to sew to the previous ones that I realized I only had 8 rows. How could that be? Then I counted columns and had 8 instead of 7. Oh, dear!
Well, I could take off the last column and add it to the bottom but I guess it was not meant to be because I did not feel like doing that.
And the reason I had one block left over after I did my webbing when I should have been one short if goal was 63 blocks and quilt has 64???? Well, I actually must have made 65 blocks not 63.
And so it goes...
WITB (What's in the Box, Bin, Bag) is the theme in my sewing space for the month of March. I'm wondering how many boxes, bins and bags I can empty.
With this quilt top I was able to empty a grocery bag of Posies that was in my RSC Project bin.
I'm keeping score:
Boxes:
1- Coins
2 - Legos
Bags:
1 - Kaleidoscope
2 - solid 1.5 inch strips for 51 Waffles
3 - 1.5 inch strips for 9 Legos
4 - Windmill blocks
5 - Happy Block parts
6 - Posies
And sew on...
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
Bunches of purple species crocus (and a few yellows and whites) have made an appearance in the lawn near the clothesline. You can catch a glimpse of them in the first photo in this post. Yesterday we had strong winds as well as heavy rain and hail. The hail was about an inch thick in places on the deck. It reminded me of those little styrofoam packing pellets. I took some pictures of the crocus the other day. There was a little bee and several flies (someday I will learn the proper names for all the little pollinators) visiting the flowers. I'm not sure how the crocus will look today; however, they are usually a symbol of growth despite adversity and are pretty resilient little flowers. I have some yellow ones starting to bloom in a different area. I'm hoping this year to get around to making a scrapbook of flowers as they start to bloom so I guess I should get started.
The Crocuses
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
1825 –1911
They heard the South wind sighing
A murmur of
the rain;
And they knew that Earth was longing
To see them
all again.
While the snow-drops still were sleeping
Beneath the
silent sod;
They felt their new life pulsing
Within the
dark, cold clod.
Not a daffodil nor daisy
Had dared to
raise its head;
Not a fairhaired dandelion
Peeped timid
from its bed;
Though a tremor of the winter
Did shivering
through them run;
Yet they lifted up their foreheads
To greet the
vernal sun.
And the sunbeams gave them welcome,
As did the
morning air—
And scattered o’er their simple robes
Rich tints of
beauty rare.
Soon a host of lovely flowers
From vales
and woodland burst;
But in all that fair procession
The crocuses
were first.
First to weave for Earth a chaplet
To crown her
dear old head;
And to beauty the pathway
Where winter
still did tread.
And their loved and white haired mother
Smiled
sweetly ’neath the touch,
When she knew her faithful children
Were loving her so much.
