Yesterday's quilting took me to the tippy top of the Quiltmaker's Garden. The sections betwixt the cherry as well as dark-green lines passed nether my needle over the class of the sewing day.
All that's left straight off are the bluish heaven flowers at the top. Each of those blocks volition hold upward quilted individually, as well as I know simply what to do. Barring whatever earthquakes, floods, or fires, I intend the quilting mightiness hold upward finished today. My liberation is near!
When I had it that far, I yanked it off the motorcar to await at it, as well as brand certain I wasn't missing anything. It was difficult to create upward one's hear how to quilt the roof of the gazebo. I settled on a ferny feathering motif for the diagonal portions.
It seemed to me the corporation portions of the roof were simply bigger Greek cardinal areas, consistent alongside the Greek keys inward the upright areas.
And to a greater extent than at the gazebo top.
Then I flipped it over to banking concern represent the back. This is the side alongside the appliqued vine.
Here's the other side where simply about of the paper-pieced flowers appear.
It's all looking surprisingly expert to my eye. I similar how those ferny feathers turned out.
It seemed a vantage was inward order, as well as and thus I baked our annual Apricot-Cherry Upside Down Mini Cakes. Once per year, when apricots as well as cherries are inward the grocery shop at the same time, nosotros instruct this lilliputian treat. The recipe is from Cooking Light, as well as and thus it's a relatively depression fat, depression calorie option. Oh yes, as well as it tastes as well as thus good. Don't yous simply honey a expert upside downwardly cake?
So, I'm looking forrad to getting dorsum at the quilting this afternoon, as well as hoping to accept it finished earlier day's end.
This morning, I'm going to the Beaverton Farmer's Market alongside Erik as well as Mae. If I tin honor simply about good-sized strawberries (read that: large plenty to cutting the seeds off the sides), I mightiness purchase a one-half apartment as well as brand simply about strawberry H2O ice cream. The Oregon berries should hold upward hitting the shelves pretty soon. After that...quilting, quilting, quilting. "Determination" is my watchword today.