Flowers of Hope
Posted By drsao on January 21, 2010
I finished my Haiti Quilt this morning before I went to school. I made it all – the piecing and the quilting and I think it will be my last machine quilting for awhile. It looks pretty bad – maybe a little better than a crib quilt that I tried to quilt last year – but still, not good enough to make me think that I will attempt it again!! I used a walking foot and did stitch in the ditch – and it can’t be much more SIMPLE than that – but my machine stitches were not even – sometimes they were tiny and sometimes long and I have no idea how to fix that! Anyway, maybe a little child who has no quilt will not care so much that the stitches aren’t straight! I named it FLOWERS OF HOPE and used all fabric from my stash that had flowers in it.
TA DA……it would have been cuter had I NOT quilted it myself! 🙂 Oddly enough, I am ENJOYING my hand quilting adventure. I do a little each morning before I leave for work ……while I watch THE TODAY SHOW. I really look forward to this time to just sit and relax after I am all ready!! (I know this is weird – I love the hand quilting but not the “EASY” machine quilting……:)!
Flowers of Hope Quilt
I also got my Confetti Quilt put together – this is an Augusta Cole pattern minus the decorative border. I pieced the blocks for that border but decided not to put them on – I decided to make ANOTHER Confetti Quilt and do a better job matching my corners before I spent more time on the border. I really love all of the colors! I am going to make the back of 12 1/2″ squares – all blues – ONWARD I GO!!!
Confetti Quilt
I am really excited about the CUTTING BEE this Saturday hosted by Augusta Cole. That is so much fun! Each participant takes different widths of fabric strips and then we trade them…..:)
You are simply tutu wonderful for words…………….. Flowers of hope – how truly symbolic and full of heart and hope for the future. Some little person will forever remember the kindness of a complete stranger, while comforted by the hand of a truly wondrous woman……. And I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the confetti quilt – didn’t even know about it and WOW, does it just make me smile BIG TIME!!!!!!!! And I’m STILL rethinking my preparations for tonight’s crop and tomorrow’s cutting bee and Sunday’s ATC exchange, whata’ weekend – WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the BEST part is that I get to spend it all with you, lucky girl, lucky girl, that’s ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!