This blog was created as a general outlet for all my sewing and gardening
expertise to reach the general public. Hopefully, others will join me on some of
my quilting adventures and may their gardens benefit from my many "trial and
errors". :-)

Bringing it up to Speed

Sooo....my current running quilting projects are The Farmer's Wife quilt, a
quilt that is called "Mariner's In A Pickle" ( I probably won't be calling my
quilt that), and another that, in the magazine, was called Cottage Lane, an
applique quilt that is called, Friends of Baltimore, and one other applique
quilt that I just can't remember the name of right now. lol The Cottage
Lane Quilt is actually nearing the end of the quilting phase. I've just got some
of the border left to finish ( with a crosshatch design ) and then it's ready to
be bound. The "Mariner's In a Pickle" quilt is still being cut. The
process of simply choosing the fabrics for this quilt was hard enough, but
cutting this monster out has become rather tedious ( The Farmer's Wife was
picked up to give me a brake from this one). I believe all the time spent
preparing this quilt will be well worth it in the end however. This one should
be gorgeous. My Farmer's Wife quilt is somewhere in the middle. I've
gotten about half of the 111 blocks finished, which I think is pretty good,
considering that all of the blocks are different. The background for my blog is
actually one of the blocks called Star Gardener that I completed. It's one of my
favorite blocks that I've done so far. My Friends of Baltimore will be a
stunning heirloom quilt. I'm only on the second block but I have high hopes for
this one and hope that nothing happens to prevent me from finishing it. Check
out my first block in the Fabric Pile! ---------->
I'll be posting
pics of all these soon.

My flower garden consists mainly of
roses ( 40 bushes +/-) with some underplantings of annuals, such as petunias,
and some small perrenials. My roses are doing beautifully this year, especially
the ones in their third season. For others this is only their first or second
season but they are a all getting along wonderfully, and are LOVING this extra
rain we've been getting this spring.

My small vegetable garden
consists of several varieties of tomatoes ( both heirlooms and hybrids), okra,
poblano peppers, orange, green, and red bell pepper, banana pepper, jalapenos,
zuchinni, yellow squash, watermelon and cantelope. I usually only have a few
plants but since I had my son to help me this year, I thought we might
expand.

The Fabric Pile

How many projects are running?? I guess that depends on how you define "running". I've got projects nearly finished, waiting patiently somewhere in the middle, just being cut and some still bouncing around in my head. I guess for now I'll just talk about projects I've started.


Friends of Baltimore
   This quilt is being made by using Sue Garmen's pattern. I plan on tweaking most of the blocks and removing a couple of them all together to replace them with a couple of my own designs. The finished  quilt is going to be called Baltimore's Southern Cousin (since I'm from Texas....lol ) and I thought that a few blocks that better represented the south were in order. So far I've finished the first block and will be finishing the second in the next couple of days. So check back!
This is the first block, "The Glorious Eagle". It's a little too mcuh "Red, white, and blue"for me, but it's already done...
Better finished than perfect, right??


On this block I shortened the flag, to make it more proprtionate ( to me, anyway), removed the Union soldier uniform from the eagle, and made the eagle's head a little more "feathery" where the neck meets the body.

 I've started a "quilt along" for this quilt on Flickr if anyone is interested in joing me. I hope others will come along on my journey. You can join here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1940709@N23/


The Farmer's Wife
  This quilt is moving along wonderfully. It's probably my favorite quilt to work on, although you do spend alot of time cutting since each block is different.


69 blocks so far...but I took two out because i didn't like them. :-/
 
I wanted a very 'brown" quilt that would feel warm and homey with a little bit of cool blue so it didn't get too monotone. The watermelon red snuck in because I thought that it needed a little more "pop". So far I'm happy with it. This probably won't be the block arrangement. And now that I lay it out like this, it doesn't look as "brown" as I thought it would.  Any suggestions on sashing colors??
 

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