"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December" - J.M. Barrie
It's a top!
54 x 72
I'm trying to find time this month to wor with some of my rose print fabrics. I've had this one yard piece of fabric with the roses in vases for a long time. I haven't wanted to cut it up so I decided to use it like a panel.
I got to work and made six inch Snowballs and Nine Patches full of roses. I had enough of a mauve-y print with roses to use for the Snowball corners and in the Nine Patches.
I was lucky that the big print I used in the center was 37 inches long so I only had to trim a sliver off of it. I was lucky in that it was square too. I went about my business, figured out how many blocks to make of each and when all blocks were made and I unfolded my center fabric and was ready to assemble...
...imagine my horror when I noticed a chunk of fabric down in the corner looked like it had a six inch hexie cut out of it! (It did! I remember I did that for my Rainbow of Favorite Things hexie quilt I made back in 2013.) You can see what I did to fix the problem. This quilt will stay with me when finished so no worries. I love roses!
And sew on...
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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)
December 9 - Sleeping under a couple of handmade quilts! This old farmhouse does not have a heat vent to the bedroom. But I stay plenty warm and sleep well under a pile of quilts.
December 10 - A mug of hot chocolate! I remember the days when we would all go toboganning and I would come home and make a big pot of hot chocolate from scratch for everyone. We would add lots of little marshmallows on top. It's so much easier to open a packet and add hot water but it's not as good as I remember the hot chocolate made from scratch.
3 comments:
Love your roses "panel" quilt...i wouldn't want to have cut that one up either;)))too pretty...nice work hugs, Julierose
BEAUTIFUL! Cheers to lovely flimsies AND hot chocolate!
That roses panel is gorgeous and too beautiful to be cut. Great idea using the entire piece. I went skiing a lot when I grew up. Still remember the days after hours skiing to come home to my late Mum's homemade hot chocolate. Nothing beats that! Instant hot chocolate is not the same, way too salted to my taste.
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