May-June Quilts and Mo Had a Party!

 

Hi everyone. I just can't seem to get away from posting on Fridays, can I?  And for someone who feels like not much got done recently, I seem to have a lot to share. But first---ugh. Spring chores--like cleaning the air conditioners, putting in the screens and so on. I try to do one chore each day.

Quilts: first up is this fun doll/ teddy quilt, mde for a friend's little girl.

I was inspired by friend Julie who makes adorable doll quilts for her granddaughters.

I had fun with the fabrics, no rules. I just couldn't make it the requested grey.

Used a few special to me fabrics. It was a smidge hard to actually use up the paperdolls and the honey jar bears.

And I've been saving the tiny seashells ''ditsy print'' for ages. Wish I had a lot more of it.

I tried to make the quilt nice but not too precious to use.

Worked on Cartwheels, but it is not pressed yet. 

Still piecing the backing. Ironing and pressing are  difficult for me to do now.

Mo approved both projects.

Streak of Autumn Lightning is complete! 

It's 50" square, a good size for me to handle and useful for display and stacking.

The quilting is so beautiful, by Lori C. of Quilter's Imagination.

I decided not to wash this quilt. I know the orange border has unstable dye. 

It's really very clean except for this one stain that looks like a needle prick bloodstain. I wish I had cut that section out before I finished the quilt.

I  had a woman on IG tell me to put the bloodstained quilt in the freezer for 24 hours to remove the stain. How would that even work? And my frozen foods go where? I was baffled.

Note the subtle color changes with the various double pinks used.

Previously when I have posted pics of the vintage PA Mennonite [?] top, I have gotten verbal eye rolls and shrugs because it is, yes, extremely bright. But it is a genre colorway of that area and period. And it is going to look fantastic in the fall with pumpkins and gourds in my big wooden bowl. Trust me. No shabby white or minimalist grey Autumns planned here.

I have finished the hand applique of my Marsh quilt's crows. Just have to machine sew their branches.

Deck sewing time is always productive. What will be next? [I have not touched my May planned stars though. I think the sheer numbers of 8 big stars and 4 giants put me off. I will now tackle one at a time]. I can work on my Gathering Love Pineapple quilt*; or knit? I haven't cut my TQC Tiny Handsewed project at all. I am held back by the notion of marking the seams, color me Lazy. Here is blog friend Penny's adorable version. She does such beautiful work always.

*As with my long-ago set aside lighthouses quilt, I may never get back to Gather Love, I can't at the moment imagine a time when we will all joyously sit at my table in friendship and love. Changes and Covid have defeated that dream.

Every day I sew at the machine I try to make an hourglass or two for my next year's Antique Block Challenge.  if indeed Lori does one. see this year's, on Humble Quilts 

 https://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2022/05/humble-quilt-antique-block-challenge.html

I ''got gay'' as my dad used to say when one got carried away by reckless enthusiasm [nothing to do with LGBT / LGBTQIA+ , like rainbows...]. And so, besides the red/ neutral triangles, I decided I'd do a few other colors sprinkled in.

At first last week I thought omigosh, disaster, stop that! right now! But today taking the pics in different light I kinda like the other colors.

Here is just red/neutral for comparison.

I think Giraffe at the Pyramids is so funny and cute, I have been saving him for years.

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Wednesday was Mo's Adoption Day anniversary. Eight years! He has certainly been a dear companion and quilt advisor, if not the cuddliest pug.

There was a party hat, scrambled eggs breakfast!, jerky sticks, and doggy ice-cream. No guests, Covid has changed that sort of fun. Not that Mo cared.

And the day was gorgeous! [for anyone new, this is our view from my deck during sewing hour with Mo each summer.]

more doings soon!~

have a good weekend.

love 

lizzy 

gone to the beach....

PS I have to share this, poor photos and all. I was very thrilled to see that there is a new osprey nest near my house. I was out with L and I noticed a hovering ''hawk'' or osprey near the main / only/ road. Then I spied this nesting pole, now set up near decrepit power lines, either by the power company or county? The nest visibly had a mom sitting on it, daddy flying close patrol nearby. I hope we can get back for better pictures. Oddly it is so close to the road but somewhat inaccessibly located on the edge of a town beach park, for which we have no passes or access during the summer.

For some reason big nests like this make my skin crawl, seem icky, but I love that these once endangered birds are proliferating again here.

                                          

Beach, sky, flowers