Seasons

Signs of Spring

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Pear blossoms. Future confetti eggs. The asparagus is up in the p-patch plot. Little pea plants are waiting for enough warm days in a row and then they will reach all the way to the bottom rung on the pea fence. Under the row cover, I really should thin the spinach. I was too exuberant with the first batch of seed potatoes this year, cutting them for planting before they had a chance to put out early leaves. Naturally, they all rotted. This second batch is sunning on the windowsill, growing the tiniest of green leaves before they go into …

quilts

One at at time

 

Not that it will do me any good, but here goes: Start no more than one Block-of-the-Month project per year. I mean, really. What was I thinking? Three BOMs at a time, plus a monthly bee? And my Wardrobe Improvement Project? And everything else: Caitlyn, garden, house, work? Next time, someone please say something! Anyway. I’ve finally finished all the official blocks for In Color Order’s Half-Square Triangle BOM. I seem to have lost steam with it back in June. Or at least, that’s when I last posted about this project. This is October’s block. I seem to have it …

quilts

One More Reason to Love the Internet

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The crazy quilt I posted about a few weeks ago is on it’s way to a new home! I can’t even begin to fathom how this would have gone if there were no Internet. Probably the challenge of finding a good home for this quilt would have ensured that it continued to live under my sewing table. Instead of writing a blog post and a small collection of emails, I would have had to print actual, physical photographs and write actual, physical letters to strangers asking for help. Not to mention that I wouldn’t have had the slightest idea where …

sewing

With Regret, I Must Decline

Too many invitations, not nearly enough time! So, in a rare case of taking stock of things before leaping in, I’m going to have to pass up Stitched in Color‘s newly launched Scrap Attack: String Fever, even though I’ve been waiting a year or more for Rachel to host a second Scrap Attack. However, I can’t play this time. Not for lack of scraps, or even a lack of strings. Not for lack of interest in string quilts, either. It’s just that I’ll never get to the other projects I’ve started or have queued up if I don’t stop saying …

sewing

Baggie Binge-ing

 

I’ve made a lot of Lined Drawstring Bags of late. There were all the ones I made for Christmas candy gifting, then two for my Sew Grateful winners back in February. I made this one for Dianne, the woman who has cut my hair for the last eight years, for her retirement. It was a bit fussy to make since I wanted to showcase the Laurel Burch dogs (I only had a few small pieces anyway). Once I finished the bag, I realized I didn’t like the blue I’d used for the contrast at the top – too light – …