I recently returned from a ten day visit with my parents. My mom loves to quilt, she will be eighty-one next month, and she discovered the joys of quilting about six years ago and is so creative and such a perfectionist everything she makes is beautifully done. Mom's sewing room is a quilters paradise, and she has a STASH of fabric that is amazing.
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| Me with my precious, precious Mom (Mumpy) |
Whenever I visit I always come home with something from the sewing room as I share my mom's love of quilting and knitting. This visit I came home with seven 6.5" crazy quilt blocks each with a lion, panther, or tiger as a centerpiece.
I laid the blocks out on the table in my sewing room and played around with the placement. I then went through my rather pathetic stash of fabric to see what would work with the blocks, I had a few colors that I thought would work well. Throughout the week I looked at the blocks and played around with ideas. Yesterday I felt inspired and took a trip to Joann Fabrics, I selected fabrics for a quilt I have always wanted to make, and found some fat quarters in complimentary colors for the big cat crazy quilt blocks.
I still only had a vague idea of what I was going to do with the blocks, first I had to make two more crazy blocks. Once the two additional blocks were made I played around with colors to decide how to border them, I really liked the dark turquoise blue but only had a little of it left, it was just enough to sash the blocks together, but not enough to do the outer border. I put the dark turquoise on the blocks and joined them together. I then could not decide what color to border them with, and then in a moment of inspiration decided to use all of the left over colors to make a "postage stamp" border. I am so pleased with how bright and cheerful this little quilt project turned out.
And no post would be complete without a grandchild update: Grandson Masen was five years old on July 11, here he is waiting patiently for his mom to light the candles on his cake so the singing of Happy Birthday can commence.
3 comments:
How sweet that you and your Mom have quilting in common...your animal quilt is beautiful...
~Have a lovely day!
Love the quilt! You have (almost) inspired me to do some quilting. But I need to find a permanent place to set my sewing machine up. In the meantime I go back to the knitting and crocheting :)
Belated birthday wishes to Masen!
My eldest son (Jefferson) was 45 on the 12th and youngest daughter (Marnie) will be 40 on the 16th! How time flies... xx
Hi Linda,
It is crazy how time flies by, our eldest grandchild will be 12 next month, and our eldest son Matt was 36 this past January.
Bean
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