As expected, I finished upwards the in conclusion block for the Home together with Heart quilt. I proceed calling it Heart together with Home, but it is genuinely the other agency round. This is Robin Kingsley's pattern from Birdbrain Designs.
Here are all the blocks for this quilt.
You mightiness recollect when I made some other of her designs. This is "Love Me, Love My Cat."
It was entered inwards a particular exhibit at the Road to California quilt demonstrate several years back. The exhibit was all redwork designs from Birdbrain Designs. This quilt was a winner, together with I won a $50 gift certificate to Birdbrain Designs. Home together with Heart was i of the patterns I chose. Also, Friendship's Garden together with a couplet of other ones, together with thence it's fun to meet this kind of "coda" to that whole episode. And instantly the embroidered blocks volition larn dorsum into a box to await finishing. I conduct maintain some fabrics pulled from my stash that could hold out used to line it together into a flimsy. I mightiness purpose some of them, or all of them, or none of them. As always, I'll conduct maintain to circle it for a piece earlier I brand upwards my mind.
It was amongst some trepidation that I fix out on my journeying to the grocery store yesterday. I could listen heavy equipment upwards on the road. When I turned out of our person drive, I was confronted past times a truck pouring asphalt. You tin meet i side of the route is paved.
Once I was allowed to pass, I was treated to a genuinely smoothen slice of road. Possibly my tires are the commencement ones to overstep over it! I should win something, don't you lot think?
When I got dorsum from the grocery store, they'd instituted a "pilot car." Geez. Our petty route is less than a mile, together with thence the airplane pilot motorcar seemed similar overkill. As usual, nobody consulted me.
It was a chip of a wait, but non every bit good bad. When I got abode together with had the groceries position away, I got to run pulling fabrics for my novel project, the Cardinal Mosaic. This is a pattern past times Jane Kakaley.
It seems everything these days brings me dorsum to remembering something that happened on our trip. You mightiness recall that nosotros started seeing cardinals when nosotros stayed at Huntington Beach State Park, close Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
I'd lived on the due east coast when I was a petty girl, together with cardinals were usually seen. Then nosotros moved to Hawaii when I was seven years old, together with this was the commencement key I'd seen since that time. It was Mike's commencement fourth dimension ever. It was something of a thrill for both of us, together with this i was exclusively the commencement of many nosotros saw on our trip.
Getting dorsum to my sewing room yesterday, it was fourth dimension to start pulling fabrics for the Cardinal Mosaic. Most of these are pulled from my combat bin, but a few are from my bins of uncut fatty quarters. I needed a fatty quarter of each value. For these mosaics, it isn't of import that the colors hold out from the same slice of fabric...just that they are closely matched inwards value. And thence I pulled plenty stuff to brand upwards 5 dissimilar values of red...
5 of green...
5 of blue...
iii browns...
dark together with white (that was pretty easy)...
and, finally, 2 oranges together with i yellow.
When I had them all pulled together with lined up, this is what I had. Try to ignore the tail-end of the cat.
He gave it a expert in i trial over together with said,
I purrnounce these acceptable.
Hmmmm...this has purrtential.
That's what I'm talkin' about...snooozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
That took me most of the twenty-four hours since I had to interrupt myself to larn selection upwards our CSA share. When I had the veggies all position away, I got to run tracing out the adjacent names for the Shop Hop quilt.
I thence desire to start on my novel embroidery project, Appalachian Dreams, but if I'm to larn some other row finished for the Shop Hop quilt this month, together with thence I must commencement embroider the names. Appalachian Dreams volition conduct maintain to wait...as volition I. For now, the Shop Hop quilt shops are hooped upwards together with create to go.
They're waiting for me downstairs, together with thence I'll larn at them next.
As for the remainder of my day, I'm getting my monthly pedicure, together with and thence I'll create the remainder of the grocery shopping. I picked upwards most of it yesterday, thence it shouldn't pick out every bit good long. I'm itching to larn at that Cardinal.