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Scrap X quilt

Scrap X quilt
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Found yet another scrap quilt to make!

Here is the tutorial.

Let me know if you make this ~ I have about 5 other quilts to get to before I start this one ;-)

Blooming 9 Patch From My Past ~ Weekend Sewing

  I cut this blooming 9 patch before I knew how to stop a ruler from slipping when rotary cutting and that squaring up meant making all your squares the same size.  I pulled the box of partially sewn rows and uneven blocks and stared at it until I got the courage to see what I could do with it. The rows are completed, some sewn together and I might just get this one completed pucker free.  I think this was the second quilt I started and now will finish in 2010... yea! 

Kaffe Fassett Sping Log Cabin Quilt is Complete!

View of the front from above:

 

Backing fabic which I think I like more then the front!

 

Hooded Oriole

  I saw him in a tree outside my patio ~ it's an adult male hooded oriole native to the South West.

BeeHappyBee Block #2

I received this months assignment in the mail yesterday. I am to make 2 wonky log cabin blocks 12-14 inches. It's ok to add some of my own colors but the designer wants to stay with her color scheme.  I've never made this block before and I'm pretty excited about learning another block - yea! I'll make a practice block this weekend. I had minor surgery on my arm today and am supposed to take it easy (typing does not count) so we'll see how far I get.   

 

These are the fabrics I am to use:

I picked these for possible additions:

 

 

Leaders & Enders ~ What To Do With These Scraps

With the leftover denim & flannel from rag quilts I've been making these four patches.  Any ideas on what I should do with them? This is also my "leader & ender" project. I keep the box by my machine and sew one patch at the end of whatever else I am making ~ in addition to making progress on this side-project I don't have to deal with those long threads.  Constant chain piecing!

Weekend in the Garden

 
A friend at work gave me an egyption walking onion. I had never heard of them before but they are pretty darn cool ;-) the bulbs form at the top of a green stalk a but thicker then a green onion. Then they fall (if left alone) and the bulb roots and starts another.  I don't have full sun where I planted it but I think it should do just fine.
I also planted four cucumber plants.  

Spring Daffodil

First daffodil bloom in my garden this year

Peacocks

 

 
 
   

Easter Hike ~ Laguna Coast Wilderness Again

Spending less time camping and more time exploring the local wilderness............

 
 
  

 



 

Zephirine Drouhin Rose From My Garden

Wild Flower Photos Laguna Canyon

 Took these on my morning hike at Nix Nature Center.  Nix Nature Center is an entrance into a 20,000-acre South Coast Regional Wilderness preserve in Orange County, Ca.  I don't know the names of most of the flowers ~when I get them I will update.

Survey Monument a bit off-trail

 
 

 
Yellow Poppy

 

 
 
 
   
 

Blurry Ladybug:

 

Jamaica Quilt Is Finished ~ Yea!

I made this for my son ~ that was before he told me he is moving to Maine (brrr...) good thing I backed it with flannel.  The pattern is called "Jamaica", from the book "Tradition With A Twist" . The fabrics are M&S Textiles Aboriginal fabrics.