It has been a crazy week full here at Daisy Meadows!!! Come on in and relax and read and see what I have been up to 🙂
Four years ago this week my honey finished building, staining and sealing my Hinterberg quilt frame (built from a kit we got at Hinterberg dot com… you can call them too… based in the USA).
This picture is at our home in Florida 4 years ago!!!
Now this week in our North Carolina home…
I rolled the quilt in the frame and started working my way from the right side over to the left side now in the wide sashing ….
That frame is probably even better than when it was brand new as it still had to be broken in a bit then 🙂 I love this frame and all the love that went into making it for me… like we enjoy seeing quilts we have made wrapping our loved ones too!
Here is a photo that came across my vision this week so I saved it to share with y’all!
My first quilt… machine pieces and hand quilted with the guidance only my bestie Connie could give!!!
We no longer have that bed … or mattress set! lol But we do sleep under a hand quilted quilt always. This quilt I use on my feet now.. and I have used some of it for pillows too 🙂
Last week I got this cool red work panel in the mail… I found it on eBay … it is made by Marcus Brothers…
I am planning to cut each square I use in this wall hanging for our kitchen … but first I will redwork them all! Starting with this percolating coffee pot here…
I found some vanilla fabric in my stash with no selvage but 100% cotton and a nice weave for stitching through… to use as a stabilizer and to hide any dark red that may show through each block…
See now how opaque the background is and how nice the coffee pot shows off…
The thread was a welcomed gift from my BFF Jannessa… I am sew blessed with 2 of the bestest friends a girl can imagine!!!! This is DMC 498 …
And here is how far I got this week since just starting mid week or so…
Yes… Holli Jo sent me a seam ripper made by her cousin’s family and picked out to be similar to hers with the North Carolina flower… dogwood… on the handle. Isn’t this amazing artwork to make a seam ripper from such? HERE IS A LINK to her Etsy shop too if you are interested in adding something like this to your sewing notions… it is SHARP too! The link will open in a new window too so you don’t lose your place here 😀
When I saw it come out of the package I knew it was from Holli Jo… I am sew blessed Y’all! Her cousin included a sweet note in the well packed gift and a sweet little bag to hold them both 😀 I felt so special to receive this item!!!
Then I have been doing some piecing on some flying geese for a future quilt and also turning a quilt kit that was just started to cut and not finished… into a 62″ x 18″ table runner for my kitchen….
Above is my ideas … I have gotten farther but you’ll have to come back next week to see the flimsy I will hand off to Jannessa for fmq… my honey loves her fmq-ing on our bar table runner because drinks don’t tip easily and it stays nice and flat because she is GREAT with her fmq!!!!
Look at this quilt that inspired my friend Connie… I love it so thought I would share it here…
And here inspiring me… is a Gerber Daisy we picked up when we lucked out and found a little place open selling flowers… we got some cheddary orange colored flowers for around our flag pole… we got a pot for the Daisy and when the freezes are over and they are planted I will share a photo with you >>> Yes it froze the last 2 nights below 30 degrees here!!! CRAZINESS!!!! And our sweet Molly … freshly brushed … she loves looking pretty!!!
Here is a meme I found… PLEASE when you can’t social distance… WEAR A MASK!!!
So what is the joy in the story you are now living??? What is a new normal thing you have learned to love that you didn’t initially…
I have learned to love being alone with my honey and our pooch… she is a joy and he is a hoot… I am definitely more blessed than I realized to be quarantined with the crew I am with!!!
I have had to learn to balance time that I listen to news though.. my honey needs more news info than I can deal with so headphones are a blessing at times!
Hope to hear from you below in the comments…
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