Happy Mother's Day

I hope you all are having a good Mother's Day. I spent the day with my hubby, our two sons, two daughters-in-law and two grandchildren! It doesn't get any better than that!  And we went out for a fabulous brunch so no one had to cook. 

What do you get for the woman who has everything? When my 90-year old mother had a birthday recently, I gave her this:

A little family tree!  The tree itself stands about 10 inches high. I went through her photo albums and found some great photos that I cropped and printed and then cut to fit in the small frames. I purchased the last two trees that Joann's had on the shelf.  The photo on the lower right was taken on their wedding day, August 1945.  In the photo above the wedding photo, I'm the little girl in the middle! I don't know why my charm square tote bag is in the photo, I guess I finished it about the same time I finished the little family tree.

And yes, I was able to talk with my mom in Florida and wish her a happy other's day!

I've been stitching more log cabins and am up to 57 of them. I don't really have anything to show you since the last time I showed you the log cabins in my design wall. You see, the design wall only holds so many of them and I can't get any more up there!

Have a great day, and till next time, keep stitchin!

Mary



My Design Wall holds Yankee Doodle!

I really love having a design wall!

It's encouraging to see a big project grow from its baby steps to a full-grown project. This is the beginning of "Yankee Doodle", a design by Jo Morton that is part of Little Women Group 11. I will be encouraging our group to start the project this month, and lay out the steps they can take each month to move the project along.

Another thing that a design wall does is to help you see where some changes could improve the design. See the star/circle block in the lower left corner? I decided that it didn't have enough contrast, so I have replaced those blocks with a different choice of fabrics.

 

I'm going to offer 3 or 4 choices for the center block. Jo's design has a star made of small (3/8") buttons or yo-yos. They could use a fabric star (like I show here) or even insert a pieced star--as long as it is 6" finished. 

I'll keep you updated on my progress, in the meantime, what's on your design wall? I'd love to see!

Till next time, keep stitchin'
Mary

The Wayward Girls

This photo is my 1st Edition Merry Mayhem (January 1, 2012) mystery quilt. It's a lap-sized quilt with little camping motifs on it, that will be a Christmas gift for my grandson. I've been wanting to make lap quilts for my two grandchildren to use when they go camping in their pop-up camper. They're supposed to be Christmas gifts--let's see if I can wait that long to give them to the kids!

The Wayward Girls had another sewing day Saturday, and as usual we had a great time. Our lunch tradition at Mexico restaurant was especially fun since it was Cinco de Mayo. Pam and I worked on our 2nd Merry Mayhem mystery quilt. And Carol worked on the fall Thimbleberries table runner. As the teacher of that group, she has to work far ahead of the rest of us! Here's Carol at work:

And here is the center section of Carol's "Twin Peaks" Thimblerries project.

And this is a picture of what it will look like when finished.

Pam is hard at work on her Merry Mayhem, 2nd edition. It's made using fabrics from Kansas Troubles. It will be a Christmas lap quilt that she'll put out on her sofa. The colors are so rich and warm, don't you think! By the way, do visit Pam's blog at http://pamsquiltspot.blogspot.com

And here I am working on my Merry Mayhem, 2nd edition. This will be a quilt for my soon-to-be 7 yr. old granddaughter. Pink is her favorite color and I thought the pink would work for the inner border. But I'm afraid there wouldn't be enough contrast with the outer border, so I'm going to the quilt shop to buy more of the teal fabric. The fabric line is "Fanciful Flight" from Hoffman.

And here are the two Merry Mayhem quilts side by side.
As always, we had a great sewing day, and we look forward to getting together again in another month or so. Today I'm working on a Jo Morton quilt "Yankee Doodle." Come back tomorrow and I'll have a sneak peek  of my design wall to show you.


Till then, keep stitchin'
Mary