What's In The Bag?

The bag is made with alphabet lettered fabric, letters all over it!  The yellow stings are so bright like sunshine!  I wonder what's in the bag that was made for a special girl who has a birthday in August.  This sweet girl will be five!  Wahoo! Kindergarten this fall will be an exciting place for this sweet girl.  

Mama's Kitchen Table Runner

In 2009, I made this quilt for my dining room table.  The fabric line, by Kaufman, was titled "Mama's Kitchen".  This fabric reminded me of the kitchen at home when I grew up.  Love the cherries and flowers.  The blues and the reds are so happy, but it also has checks and polka dots! Amazing fabric line!

Plus the I love stars in quilts.  The left over fabric was popped in a bag and then stored in the cupboard, oh my the cupboard!   So I gathered the left over pieces and made this table runner.

I used the Sidekick ruler by Julie @ JayBird Quilts to make the runner.  The pattern is called "Seaside". I will be donating this runner, plus many more items,  to the Tulip Tea and Quilt Sale by Friendship Quilter,  March 25, 2017.   This event is held every other year at St. John's Lutheran. 

Scarf for Stef

This is our beautiful granddaughter Stefanie!  Her birthday is June 1, so this year I knitted her a scarf in her favorite color.  It's a bit short but when you are new to knitting find a yarn you love your don't think about how much to buy (lesson learned)  I'm going to suggest that she twist the scarf and sew the ends together. If Stef twists and sews (sounds like a 60's song) it will be a great cowl.  There are mistakes in this scarf/cowl and each one of the mistakes is a big hug for Stefanie. 

 Happy Birthday XOXO!

1800's Table Topper Quilted

Love the completed 1800's Table Topper that I completed today.  Quilted and Bound  Yeah!  The colors are so rich and great  jewel tones.

The quilt is made of all half square triangles.

The free motion quilting really is revealed on the back.  I really like the center border quilting.  I did the cursive "e" on the entire border.  I'm pleased with the thread color, looks so natural with this style of fabric.  

Another completed!  Onto the next project!

Going Old School

This year I decided to go "old school" or Vintage in my flower garden.  I love to plant seeds and watch their progress, that is if the snails, grasshoppers or lizards don't chew on the leaves.   Some of the seeds were gathered- ok I gathered them in the Association flower beds.  The gardeners don't dead head so I watch for the plants to go to seed.  Last fall I collect ruby red snapdragons and guess what they are blooming.   The seeds of the purple delphiniums were planted in my flower garden last year. So I saved the seed/ Wahoo!  They're blooming too.

Purple Delphiniums

Snapdragons

So this year I planted Hollyhock, Bachelor Buttons and Cosmos seeds.  These flowers always remind me of my Grandma Steinert.  She loved these flowers and always saved her seeds in empty jars.  Always remember seeds in green olive jars.
                                        The flowers will look like this when they are bloom.

Bachelor Butons

Hollyhock

Cosmos

Scrappy For Mexico

Cleaned out the 2.5" scrap drawer and made this quilt that will go to Juares Mexico with the mission team from St. John's in July. This year the team plans to build three houses.  Excited for the families who will be given a new home!

 It was fun to make this pattern and I'm sure the family who receives this quilt will enjoy all the different types prints in the fabrics - everything from flowers to zebras to basketballs and then there are chickens!  It's great to be able to share what I have been so blessed with others who have so little.

1800's Table Topper

My friend, Gretchen, gave me her leftover half square triangles.  I squared them up, assembled the blocks and added two borders using fabric that was given to me by another quilting friend, Denise.  Love when friends share with each other. So with all this wonderful fabric the only thing to do is complete a 1800's table topper.

Love the richness of the colors!  Next step is pinning and free motion quilting. Watch for the completion of the next step.