My birthday present to myself

For my birthday last month I treated myself to a tuffet class. I have always wanted to do one for my living room, and when I heard about the class I signed up for it as my birthday present to myself.

 

This is the one I made, to match my couch quilt. The pattern is by Myra Mitchell. It took a lot of prep work and a 6 hour class, but I love my new tuffet.  I even put some decorative stitching on the fabric. 

The legs I had from a wooden  chest we bought in the Azores that I never used for the chest. 

Here is her link :

 http://freepdfhosting.com/1ea7623822.pdf

for a free pattern for the square tuffet. 

This one was made by another gal named Tina, I love the greens and browns. 

Sunday Picture

Poppies are my favorite flower. From the huge red one like this ( the flower is dessert plate size ) to the small wild ones in the fields back in Germany, or the orange wild ones that grow from Alaska all the way to California and pretty sure beyond. I even bought a Poppy plant, just so the slugs could have a feast. I re potted the lonely stem with no leaves in hopes it will grow back. 

Let's see if Susanne and Frauke have a picture for you.  

And sorry, but I realized today was not Sunday.  

Guess what was in my closet box?

A very old UFO! I believe it is from 2005, when I was working at a quilt Shop that specialized in Asian fabrics.
The pattern is Twisted Sisters.  You can find it here.

  

What was I thinking? 

  For a long time I had a border on this quilt, but in the end removed it because I didn't like it. 

           No need for a border. The purple was overpowering anyway. 

You can tell by the fold lines that it has been tucked away for a long time. 

The quilt and one recently done scrap quilt will go to charity. 

Sunday Picture

                                                                               

 

                     

                             I found these two beauties in my friend's neighborhood.   
   
                             Let's see if Frauke and Susanne have a picture for you.

International Quilt Block Exchange

Some of my friends from my old Quilt Guild in Germany and I are doing a block exchange.
Two of these friends have moved back to the USA, and so did I. This is one way to keep in touch and feel connected somehow.
We agreed on a 12 inch finished block, and the focus fabric of one yard  and the background fabric of 1/2 yards were given, also a fat eights of black batik. I opted not to use the black in my block.
I pondered for a long time, decided on a block and made a practice block. It came out at 15 inches, to big.
So I went and searched for a another one, just to realize that my background fabric was not enough.
I found this block here:

I had to do some changes to the block to make the green back ground  fabric last, so I altered the block just a bit. But I am happy with the changes. 

All of my blocks make this design, and I like the secondary pattern in it. 

I realized after I took this photo, that the last block on the right side on the third row has an error in it. I will have to do the frog stitch and fix that. 

I am excited to get the other eleven block and send mine of to the girls, and see how every body lays out the blocks for the quilt. The finished quilts will be so different. 

Sunday Picture

Found on the trail by Port Gamble, Washington this Mother's Day while walking 1 hour 45 minutes with my hubby and friend Jeri. 

Let's see if Frauke and Susanne have a picture for you. 

Sunday Picture

My small Rhododendron I planted last fall

 made it through the winter and is now in full bloom.

Let's see what Susanne and Frauke have for you today.