Three Litle Finishes
Little Baskets
36 x 36
Cindy sent me this one last year along with the backing and binding and thread. All I needed to do was add batting and quilt!
Look at all the sweet fabrics. One has a little fairy in it.
And there's a little fairy in another basket. I quilted it with three petaled flowers on my sewing machine in light pink thread.
I had to give this one the Dawn and hot water soak. The purple border fabric bled into the muslin in places but I think it's all fixed now.
Blue and Yellow Squares
40 x 48
I made the top last year after someone sent me some 4.5 inch squares. A lot of them were blues and yellows. After adding in a few yellow squares of my own I made this top last year.
This year I finished it by quilting on the diagonals. I used a piece of navy blue gingham for the binding.
Two backs.
The floral is the back of the Little Baskets.
The blue Cheater Cloth Log Cabin is the back of the Blue and Yellow Squares quilt.
Surf and Turf
44 x 52
This is one of several quilts I made back in 2023 after someone gave me a box of fishy fabrics. I had a few of my own.
In this quilt I added some sand I had on hand.
The squares in the quilt are 8.5 inches.
I quilted it with swirls in a variegated blue thread. I didn't notice until I hung it on the line that the blue in the sandy areas is not the result of blue variegated thread but the result of the backing bleeding through to the front in places.
Now I guess this one needs a Dawn/hot water bath.
The binding is a sandy color all around.
The bleeding back - a batik with frogs on blue and a little piece of blue with white flowers.
And sew on...
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
I've started winter sowing some seeds...
The first batch...five different kinds of milkweed, a couple of different kinds of sea holly, a couple of different kinds of blazing star, a mix of columbine, bottle gentian, aconite, obedient plant and ironweed. Most of these seeds need a period of cold stratification.
In past years I have winter sown in milk jugs, gallon baggies and small pots covered in plastic. This year I'm trying a new method in addition to my old methods- larger pots covered in shower caps. I've had the pots stored in the barn for a long time so might as well put them to use. I bought the clear disposable shower caps on line last year. I think I bought 100 of them for $8. I just had to put slits in the shower caps so rain or snow can get into the pot.
I will be planting several more batches and then there are seeds I start inside under lights in a corner of my sewing space.
And sow on...
2 comments:
Those are fun finishes, Cathy! I love the blue and yellow patchwork - so simple, but so appealing. Have you planted milkweed before, and does it attract the monarch caterpillars to your yard? We have a lot that grows around the ponds here in Colorao, but I can never find the caterpillar or chrysalis of one.
Your finishes look great - happy to see you are winter sewing already. Bleeding fabrics - yuck. I bought one piece of yardage and it bled so much after 6 washings with color catchers, Retayne, vinegar, and all the other tricks I knew that I contacted the seller who was NOT happy about it and refunded my money (store credit) so I could choose different fabric. Sigh.
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