New Hip

New hip is great and while cannot sew for a few weeks on machine there is that knitting going on.

Murmuration Started

The colors for this Rebecca Bryan quilt of diamonds of string piecing have been curated using her method of color fabric chips to get the gradation from darkest to lightest. All these are from my stash which was another goal I had to see my stash differently. It worked. Don't think I would have pulled these without the pattern and color guidance.

The first three center blocks that are from the darkest colors.

Six more diamonds an the color starts to show some light peaking through. I am anxious to get more diamonds done but alas....

I have lost use of my right hip for all practical purposes and am waiting to get the surgery date for hip replacement done.  Darn this slows me down but not out. I am in the process of getting my machine from my studio upstairs to the downstairs and soon will have a downstairs set up to get back on this. In the meantime I am working on a a Christmas Stocking for our new GreatGrand Dtr Riley Hope born Oct. 31.

Funny I bought this one in 2002 off a sale rack at Hobby Lobby for $5  the price was $17.99 so quite a bargain. Figured I would use it some day and now is that day.

Halloween Small Hanging

We were RVing last week and my Halloween small quilt hung proudly in our campsite. It makes me happy to see it wave in the breeze as our friends and us sip our happy hour

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Love this pillow I made a few years ago and love seeing it during this Halloween season.

Color Refinement

A little refinement of the deep dive into color. Added a couple to expand the middle colors. I know that until I actually make the next triangles I will have no clue as to how this might really pull together but I like the method of using solid color chips to pull prints from my stash that allowed me to see those prints differently. I like this new way to look at what is in front of me. bryanhousequilts.com

Deep Dive Center for Murmuration Quilt

Murmuration Quilt beginnings....Wanted to get the core done before leaving town.

Colors I am drawing from ...I think I need some mid tone so will work on that before pressing forward.
This is for the Playful Color on line course I am taking offered by Rebecca Bryan bryanhousequilts.com

Deep Dive into colors

Doing a deep dive to get colors for a quilt that goes from dark to light within a spectrum  I would like some more mediums but my stash just does not have any more so I am going with what I got...This is a use stash only project to challenge my color perspective without buying anything. Now to cut strips, I am going to use my newly acquired Accuquilt for some.Wonder if the red cutting board is tainting my "eye" of these colors..??

Great Grand Daughter Quilt

Riley Hope our second Great Grand Daughter will, we learned today, be born on Oct 31 if all goes as planned. Love the lamb and the fun it is having dancing with flowers. The back is minky with cute owls. Loved making this as baby quilts always are a joy and fast to do.

ABUNDANCE OF PEACHES

See there is this peach tree that came up on our property from we know now where. It has been growing and we have not paid much attention to it. Then this year it has produced lovely peaches. A lot of peaches it seems to us. We picked the first one and one bite told us this was a good peach tree. Now there is on our property others who also like these peaches, one in particular....

 That squirrel is a peach eater....seems he even smiles as he eats in front of us.  Well, a squirrel has to have fruit too I guess.

We are not being deprived by the squirrel and we are happy to share with our fuzzy tail friend.

Something from the Scrap Basket

 What do you do with 100 2.25" refrigerator magnets you salvaged from being thrown away because they were for a handout for a convention a few years ago and the organization is cleaning our old stuff?  YOU TAKE THEM FOR YOUR STASH.....

Now several years later when your guild is thinking of things to sell in their booth at a quilt show, hmmm you remember those magnets...

You start off with digging in your scrap baskets and find what left overs you have

 The more you dig the more you find and not even sure what it was left over from but it is nice

 The parts join together and the next thing you have is this

 A bit of trimming and then you have this. 

This is a finished square that is a quilt sandwich of left over stuff, craft felt and a backing/ quilted together and cut with pinking shears. the craft felt (fake batting) is nice because it hold so well and does not flake or shed.

The finished mini blocks are then hot glued onto the salvaged magnets ready for sale (if they are chosen for the booth) at our guild booth later this summer. 100 "free" items could give back dollars to be used by our guild.