Monday, February 25, 2019

Finally sunshine.


What I am working on now.



My latest project including the ongoing 9patch scrappy and the two-block red and white quilts is
this panel of Van Gogh's Irises.  Let's just say that snowball blocks are not my favorite but it was a
kit so.....
This is at the quilters.
This is a Lucy Prior pattern called Soft Corners? from an old Kaffe book I was looking through.  I got a package of star, dot, and solid grunges in Myrtle Beach at the Quilt Gala last weekend.  I'm not sure
that I will like it when finished.  Hopefully after using other colors it will grow on me.

These two quilts were my favorites at the small but nice quilt gala. I don't like English paper piecing or green but I liked the colors of the one above against the white and the placement of the pieces.  The green one was quilted with a fan feather in each of the clam shells and you know how I feel about feathers. I also liked that it had no borders.

Time to get quilting.
Sunny quilting.
Sally

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

this and that

This is a donation quilt top.  I don't like the layout but it is done.  Now to quilt it.

My back "patio" garden.

A quilt to be of Van Gogh's Irises.  Kit from Heart Song Quilts.

Just love getting lilies for the table.  They usually last about 10 days.

Of course my fav month quilt.

So much going on this week.  Monday BA came to work at aquarium and we ate at the lunch box. We had mah jong at JA smith's house in Goldsboro on Tuesday and nearly everyone was there.  M and I came from Wilmington.
Today I take relatives to the airport for some much needed R&R in the Southwest.  Hope to get by
the nursery to look at bushes to put in my front 1/100th of an acre. 
Tomorrow M and J are coming to go to lunch.  Friday night is a long awaited organ recital by Richard
Rhodes at St. Pauls to replace the one wiped out literally by Hurricane Fran.
It seems as if there is always something going on.  Or off as in the case when I tried to correct this post.  I had to google how to fix the computer when the keyboard stopped working. It suggested i take out the battery from the laptop and let the power drain completely.  I did and it worked. so I am 
trying to correct this post. 
Lily came by and planted my small gardenia and is going to work on sprinkler system.  We will get to the dead grass later.
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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Heart month

I have always heard that time flies but it seems to have broken the sound barrier since Christmas.
The move to Wilmington is a mixed bag but what isn't. I really enjoy where I am and it is so wonderful after all these years to be so close to my family that we can get together several times a week if we want to.  There are so many restaurants and so much entertainment to visit if you are
willing to make peace with the traffic.  It is nice to have a department store besides Belk even though
I like to shop there. 
I still have not connected with a guild but hope to do that this month. 

After moving there were several things I could not find among them were some table runners and
quilts to hang.  Finally looked under my sewing table and found them in a plastic container. This was made at a workshop at our guild with teacher Ann Burns.  I just loved the simplistic design and bold colors.  Hope to have a hanging for summer with panel of Van Gogh's Irises and beautiful Stonehenge fabrics from Northcott.
Time to get ready for church.  The weather has been really crazy and is in a cooler mode.  Not too bad for mid February.  Birthdays are nice but hard to believe I have lived this long.
Hearts to you and prayers for C.
Sally