Good evening! Mo and I just came in from our walk--a beautiful Full Moon is floating in a turquoise sky---lavender now--- filled with ''angel clouds" [puffy pastel with golden glow.] How wonderful.
In early January I quickly zapped out a simple nap quilt for a child.
Inspired by the reading quilts Julierose makes for her granddaughters, this can be a storytime quilt, a take to camp or the beach quilt, a snuggle blanket for her new play tent.
A utility quilt.
Her parents strongly dislike patchwork so I just took a stack of sweet pink and lemon yellow batik 10" squares and set them randomly.
The best part is the Ladybug quilting, by my friend Lori C. who always brings my ideas to life.
I had planned to use wide pink satin blankie binding.
But 1-I couldn't figure out an easy way to attach it and 2- it seemed old and crinkly, then it melted when I pressed the fold lines out.
Pink polka dot binding instead, not sewed very well. A wasted rush as the child's birthday was canceled because she had Covid again. [how sad is that!].The backing is soft cream and white polka dot flannel. I know pink and yellow is a reach for these friends, but I just cannot make a grey play quilt, sorry not sorry. "Pink Lemonade" ~ a Summer Quilt for ****
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The Thanksgiving quilt is also finished and just waiting for deck time/ and summer for its binding.
I'm still not sure what to put in the open spaces next to the Pineapple. L * D, my initials/ 20---23, its date? 1623 [! wow, synchronicity] first Thanksgiving, which my family loved celebrating on the Pilgrim shores of Cape Cod.
Right now I'm not loving poor Pineapple, it has sad connotations now, of holidays uncelebrated, changing times. And---too literal, after seeing blog friend Dorothy's neutral, graphic, and beautifully made version.
Another issue: The raw edges require me to wash it, as the edges will lift and fray and add textural depth. Yet--disatser in the making?
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Most afternoons, sewing hour has focused on Winter Marsh, making Flying Geese blocks for spacers and border. On sunny days I bring my trimming tools and the blocks out to sit facing the beach, pretending from my dining room table that the sun is warm and summer is on its way.
A quilt like this, so random!, really needs a designs wall.
that I do not have,
My next two goals are to piece the setting Sun block and to piece the top's columns. I'd love to have this completed for next winter.
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I want to share photos my friend sent me of her recent quilts she has made as they relocate yet again and wait for their new house to be built. She cheerfully calls the long wait in a rented condo, a ''staycation'' and has focused on these small projects. She does lovely work, usually handquilted.
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Friday I made a big stir fry w left over pork tenderloin and veggies from fridge and from Trader Joe's.
Every time I make this it seems different but fast and tasty and warm on a rainy night. Today I made many salads, plus a pasta casserole. This week is IV clinic week, and I try to prep easy meals ahead.
Mo says Hi! He will be nine in a few weeks, imagine that.
Have a great week!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach....
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