Amongst the Trees

It's been a stressful week, but today I awoke light-hearted and optimistic and that's the best way to feel, in my humble opinion.  So I worked on my Kay Mackenzie design, "Lollipop Grove" and finished the quilt top.  I added the little AccuQuilt dog and just love him.  I need to get the cat die.  My sun could look better, but it's fine.  I'm going to move on to making blocks for all of the QAL's I've joined.  I hope your Saturday is as nice as mine has been.

God Bless.

Wreath Quilt and Tumbler Project

I thought for sure that by the end of last week  I would have finished the Wreath Quilt from Erik's Homemade Mystery QAL.  http://erikhomemade.typepad.com

In this photo I wonder if you can see the holes from the stitching that took 1 and 1/2 days to rip out? 

I've decided to applique crocheted stars and such to the cream/white area within the wreath.  I found this star pattern in one of my old issues of Hooked On Crochet, June 2007, designed by Kathleen Munyan. 

I'm also sewing red buttons to the inner and outer wreath angles. 

So, now I am aiming for the end of August to have this quilt done. 

I've been wanting to use my new tumbler die for my AccuQuilt GO!.  I've had it since early June, so I would say I've showed remarkable self control in waiting this long to play with it.  I was so certain I knew what fabric I would use, mainly a mix of  lights, mediums and darks, but then I saw a quilt that changed my mind.  It was a circle quilt made using mostly yellows in bright and light shades.  I let that quilt influence me and cut out 143 tumblers.

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I hope I like it when it's put together. 

I plan to cut some of the tumbers in half for the border area.  We'll see if that works, too.

God Bless.



Purple Mountain Majesties and a Forest

McCall's Quilting March/April issue has part 2 of the quilt directions for Lynn Lester's design.  I haven't made all of the trees yet so this is just what I've completed so far. 

Katherine Lee Bates wrote the poem Pikes Peak in 1895 after a trip west.  When it was published it was retitled America, and then when it was set to music the title was again changed to America the Beautiful.  It is one of the most loved patriotic songs we have and it's great to sing.   Don't you just love the word grouping "purple mountain majesties"? 

Still plenty more  trees to put together.

SewCalGal http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com/ has a giveaway of an Accuquilt Go!  which ends on February 14th.  As I'm writing this there are 404 comments so I see my chances of winning becoming fainter, but I'm still trying.  Good luck to everyone who reads this and enters.

God Bless You.