Back to Quilting Flowers

 

There must be twenty markers around my house with disappearing ink, but just like socks, they all seem to wear out at the same time. I fully intended to get some more quilting accomplished on my “Peace, Love, & Haight Ashbury” quilt, but those markers just weren’t cooperating.

Back to “Rainy Garden Windows” I went.

These flowers take very little marking. I just put the end of a big spool of thread in the middle of the square and traced around it. Fortunately, my chalk marker worked on these. Then I roughly sketched in the crosshatch marks in the center of the flower. They do not need to be perfectly measured or straight. From there I had enough to guide me.

Although it can be done, I do not sketch the petals of the flowers. I just make sure the tips of the petals reach the arcs that have already been stitched with the walking foot on the sashing and cornerstones. It is a lot easier than it looks, however, it is very time consuming.

Here is the link to the post that describes how I quilted the arcs on the sashing blocks:

http://quiltedtimeposts.blogspot.com/2013/06/marking-and-quilting-simple-sash-design.html

The Sewful Sisters Meet Again

 

This evening our friendship group was very well attended. Probably, word got out that we laughed our heads off when we met two weeks ago.

Darla was the star of the show with this fabulous quilt. She does her own quilting on her long arm machine and did an excellent job with her stippling and feathers. Her fabrics were exquisite with the tiny touches of Fairy Frost.

Displaying the quilt, from left to right, are Corey, Darla, Jennifer, and Marty.

Lois handed out the pattern to the first block for our new Block of the Month project.

Each member is to make just one block for herself. Any choice of fabric is acceptable. It will be interesting to see all those pretty blocks.