Happy Easter

Brown eggs, hand painted by me.

and now another one

and then another one.  Click to see a close up.

1, 2, 3 look what the Easter Bunny left me 

and in a nest of fabric scraps!  

Thanks Easter Bunny.

Seriously though, Easter is a time of re-birth, the day Jesus is resurrected from the dead as promised by God the Father.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Better Pictures ... maybe

quilt front

Quilt front

showing a section of the back

close up of half square triangle strip

mitered corner binding

   These pictures show a more accurate representation of the colors of the fabrics used in this serendipitous lap quilt. (See previous post and you will see what I mean.) I love the "bird footprints" on the blue and the little dots of color on the other blue fabric.  I just kind of threw them together with out thinking and they worked.  The red pieces are there because I need extra length and the half square triangles were to match the front of the quilt that this piece was originally made for.  That particular quilt is just waiting to have a binding sewn on.  Then I will show it on this blog.  The quilting was done on the idea of the lines that form the square pattern of the binding and matching fabric in the body of the quilt.  Hope you like it.

The Unexpected Quilt

The unexpected quilt you ask?  Sometimes while thinking of making a quilt complete I must decide whether to make a one piece backing or look through my array of fabrics and piece a backing big enough to cover the backside of the quilt I'm working on.  Many of us quilters have been in this spot at one time or another. This one quilt I decided to piece the backing.  Well the backing appealed to me so much that I just had to make it a quilt on it's own with a pieced backing as well.  So the original back is now the front.  Here are some pictures of the "new" quilt, they are a little darker than the actual quilt, the lighter strips are a white back ground with blue lined design that has little dots of different colors in the middle of it (not easy to see), then the red is apple red, the main color is a sort of cornflower blue that could be persuaded to lean on the light purple side if it were paired with just the right color.  It has little bird foot prints on it, not sure who the manufacturer is.  Then the half square triangle strip was sewn in place to compliment the quilt that this "backing" was originally sewn for.  Sometimes you just never know what you might come up with. 

 

  The original quilt that I was working on has a half square triangle center bordered by a white back ground and an inch wide secondary border with yet a third wider border in white.  Right now I am in the middle of quilting it... and unfortunately rippng out  stitches, first in the beginning at each corner (mostly just because I did not like the design of the quilting) and then in the center where all of the half square triangles are, again the stitching design isn't what I am looking for.  So I am going a little bug eyed looking at all those stitches!  When that one is finally finished I will post a couple of pic's of it - if I can still see when it is done, lol.

 I know with all the blogs out there and the busy lives we all are living these days our time is valuable I just wan to say thanks to all of you who stop by and visit my blog,