Farmers market BOM

Love Pat Sloan's new free BOM Farmer's Market, this was the 1st block "jam jars"

Our Farmers market just had it's grand opening, had such fun finding lots of fresh veggies and lovely fresh sunflowers, they just make me smile.

here are my jam jars, and some of the fabrics I have ready for other blocks. I think at some point I was planning to make a canning jar quilt.

I used to make jams and jellys all the time. My mom made so many unusal kinds, ginger peach, ginger pear, mint jelly, beach plum, blueberry yummy!

Berry picking was such a big part of our summer activities, we had so much fun, with prizes for the basket that was the fullest, fill their basket the fastest, of coarse some of us ate more than we picked. We made homemade ice cream and scrapped the jelly pot to top our ice cream.

Happy 4th of July

these are a few of my Patriotic wall quilts, Hat's Off is my orginal design I used to teach needleturn applique. Liberty is by Pat Sloan as is the lady slipper.

Just love getting them out for the summer holidays.

Still doing a bit more knitting than quilting, but I did finish a few things for a swap.

My poor gardens are still suffering from the drought, all my hard work this spring and now I'm just trying to keep things alive.

sew till later Happy 4th

mini quilt and endless chain

This mini was the pattern in the little tin Sanctuary line by Moda

the quilt is backed by wool and I used some vintage buttons for the tacking

easy LOL Hand blanket stitched the outer edge and the melons were hand appliqued down.

It feels great to have something finished and looks great on my coffee table, and is perfect with

my Endless chain lap quilt I made a few years ago, scrappy and the backing is

from a piece of fabric that I found in the cedar chest when I was cleaning out my

mother's house. My sister and I had dresses out of that, mom used to buy fabric by the

bolt, do any of you remember when cotton was only 36" wide? seems to me that

the manufactors are heading back in that direction?

Need get back to sewing

sew till later

Vintage valentine

Block 4 of Vintage Valentine, I finally finished my April block.
I will cut out May's block today, and work on a new summer purse,
I also have Moda's Sancutary tin that looks like fun.
I have been spending so much time working in the yard that my
quilting has taken a back seat, but that all changes today!!
The weather has been really wonderful, so I hope to sit outside this afternoon
and do some stitching and relaxing in my secret garden.
Sew till later

Little Brown Bird

Some of you wanted to see more close ups of the blocks.

These are the 1st 4 blocks I made, I did end up redoing a few, but this was a learning experience, so I didn't redo any till they were all done.

The fancy fruit basket was the last block, before doing the borders that took me almost a year of on and off sewing

work on

Vintage Valentine is progressing

I love to sit on the porch on a pretty day and do something with needles and thread or yarns.

I have been doing these as a do it yourself BOM I will now grab my basket and head outside, can't waste a lovely day inside!!