Since finishing Kaydences sweet Butterfly Woven Quilt… she did receive it and she loved it her parents said… so all is well there!!!
Here is where I have spent some of my Sunday last week!!!
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| Daytona Beach Shores, Florida! |
We have a driving pass to drive on the beach and walk around whenever it is open for driving on… when the surf isn’t dangerous or in the driving path… so that is what we did last weekend… what a great way to rest and relax!!!
My bloggy friend Kathy is talking about how relaxing and restful taking slow stitches is… I couldn’t agree more! I have picked up a UFO that was sitting beside my recliner and have made a refreshing focus on it this week. Here it was when I had it pieced and ready to layer and pin baste…
And here it was in my hoop as I started going closely around the “flowers” coming out from the center…
Daisy is always close at hand when I am hand quilting… above I was working on this project on my back porch Florida room (screened porch)… now I have brought it in and am working on it in my recliner in the air conditioning and in the living room 🙂
If you look at this photo above… the flower closest to this writing is not yet quilted around… the other 3 flowers and berries are quilted around now… This is raw edged applique done expertly by my bestie Connie… I made it into a wall hanging but she did the applique I am not skilled enough to manage! lol
I am using wool batting on this project so once finished and out of the hoop the quilting will really show too 🙂 It will be a while yet as I have quilting for the borders… all to be decided as I go… this is my relax and enjoy project… because that is also Kathy’s theme today for our slow stitching and I am working on this today as well… I am linking my post today to Kathy’s Slow Sunday stitching HERE!!! Come see what others are slow stitching while they relax and refresh 🌸
When not slow stitching on Sundays and when I need to relax… I have been designing a new quilt with this cool new book I just received.. it is an older book but still a GREAT book for designing borders…. it has 12 different quilts in it too 🙂
These quilts aren’t so easy to make and far more than I would design myself… but they also explain how to add fun pieced border designs to your own quilts… the authors are great precise quilters on their own and together I think they are just FAB!!!!
Judy Martin is the queen of precise piecing log cabin quilts and Marsha McCloskey is the queen of the feathered star pieced patterns!!! Yippee!!!
Here are several finished flowers and the template…
Here is the booklet the pattern is in… it is full of lots of cool information though and is compiled by Darlene Zimmerman… this pattern is Hollyhock Garden and comes in 2 sizes in this book… but I am designing my own size! lol
Here is some of the flowers on my design wall…
This collage of pics shows a better view of what the finish may look like as well as my designing process… so I know how many flowers I will be needing!
I am making the flowers from batik fat quarters… each fat quarter makes 6 flowers… 3 positive and 3 negative ones… I am using both types in my quilt… the pattern says to use just the positive ones though… I just can’t see wasting those negative triangles though….
You make strip sets then cut the positive and negative triangles…
Once the 2 sides are sewn together you best bet is to double pin the center to get a perfect flower each time… this is a pic I sent to Bonnie Hunter after her most recent Quilt Cam.. I was just sewing them….
Above they are in Gatlinburg last weekend when they finally tied the knot!
And after seeing quilts that inspired them I am designing on graph paper something similar to the pic below I found on pinterest in Civil War colors at their request….
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