Spring Uncurls

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Big Kitty in the Neighborhood

So this is who I saw today at 1:30 pm. 

 

Just up our street, two houses from us. 

                                              Yep. Wildlife likes our neighborhood. So do I!



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Yellow Makes Me Smile

Have a Wonderful Mother's Day!

Shadow

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Painted Packing Paper Flowers

We painted flowers with the paint left on our pallets after we finished our paper mache artwork.

 The brown craft paper was already cut just the right size- it was the packaging between the glass plates we collaged back in December. And it was free too. Yes, I keep everything.

The kids painted the flowers, and then I cut them out at home. A coat of shiny modpodge firmed them up a bit so we could shape them to add dimension. We hung them on the wall with our artist photos- each of the kids holding their paper mache artwork.


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April's Quilt Group

Our quilt group's monthly meeting never fails to inspire. 

This is one of the things I'm working on....

These are going to be pockets on my quilted bag started at our sew day. I worked on them on my recent trip to New York. While Beckham, my adorable 9 1/2 month old grandson, was napping, and Kate was working and Jed was out of town, I worked on the hand stitching using embroidery thread.  I WILL get the bag finished. Soon.

Up next are two pillow covers made by Terry to match a large quilt she made. Love the fresh, summery colors!

 

And Barbara's blendy zig zag takes me on a tropical vacation!

 Denise took us back to the farm with her placemats and  mini quilt...

 And she also bought this at a craft fair and then made one to match, only her bunny is milk chocolate!

Nan shared her beautiful quilt made from linen and lovely red. I loved the combination.

 And she brought a quilt given to her by Mari years ago. It's the inspiration for the guest book Nan's helping her soon-to-be daughter-in-law with. Guests will sign blocks and Nan will make them into a quilt.

 Helen loves color almost as much as we love her! Here is her latest colorful star quilt.

Love the way the she extended the star backgrounds to make the outside border...

This is one Helen made a while back. She had originally planned to hand quilt it. That wasn't happening, so she had it machine quilted. Done. Beautiful. And will you look at that skinny pieced border? Love it.

 

 Ardiths' quilt is for her grandson's 8th birthday. He requested all things aquatic, and that's what this quilt delivers...

 

 Janet shared this raffle quilt made from upholstery samples!Money raised will support international relief efforts by Janet's church.

My photo does not do it justice- the colors are so elegant, and will you look at that binding? 

It's a thick corduroy that is just perfect, matching the opulent feel of the rest of the quilt.

 We loved Marsha's Arrow quilt- somehow I didn't get a photo of the whole thing.

Marsha set a beautiful spring table and lunch was delicious. As always, I'm so happy to have a chance to be with such talented women every month- to have fun, to work together, to learn from each other.

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"Jump in the Pool" Quilt

This is a quilt I started a long time ago. Years and years.

 

It started when someone gave me a stack of 3-inch squares of some really UGLY fabrics. Just the kind of leftovers-nobody-wants-it fabric that appeals to me.

I kept adding to it as I came across reject scraps.

 Once I added some pieced borders of blue Kaffe fabrics, the quilt reminded me of a bunch of colorful kids in a swimming pool. Hence the quilt's name, Jump in the Pool.

 The back is pieced red and yellow prints that I had on hand. Once Terry quilted it for me on her long arm, I bound it with another saturated blue from Kaffe.

Finally. Finished.


Make it a Wonderful Day!