Blooming

The fabric to finish the borders on "Sweet Peas in the Meadow" arrived and was washed and ready to add to the quilt top. But something kept nagging at me...

...a preponderance of of four-patches left over. And I did notice the final size of the quilt was just 10 inches shy all the way around of being the perfect size for my bed. Hhhmmmm. Time to open up EQ7.

Love this! Now it will be the perfect size. And after counting the four-patches there will be 10 leftover. I have enough green batik to do the final border...not enough of the purple I used on the inner border. Still nagging at me. So I changed the green to purple in EQ7.

I like the purple better. Not sure I can find anymore of it but I will be checking that out later today. Meanwhile, I sewed the next border on and Sweet Pea is waiting for some more attention.

The Last Baby Chick

The baby birds are ready to spread their wings...my son, Zachary, is in the middle with his girlfriend, Lindsey and buddy, Taylor. The memory that came to me during the graduation ceremony was Zack as a toddler, running with a push toy. He crashed into a rear light of my Honda as it was parked in the driveway. Broke the light but not his head!

Success

Batiki Argyle is officially a completed flimsy.

70x81

All of the dark batiks started as 5" charm squares. I am working on a pattern for it and will post it on my blog soon.

Design Wall Monday

I really don't have much time for sewing lately but this project is easy and is something I can work on a little at a time. It's a great stress reliever and gives me a feeling of accomplishment.

The outer most set of squares needs to be attached but it's all fitting together without any seam ripper action or additional sewing to adjust...my math came out right! I think I will add a small border of the background fabric and then finish with a fun print that has all of these colors...but I could change my mind. 

Here's an update on the new house. Hubby got the wood floors sanded this weekend and I spent almost as much time vacuuming up the sawdust. We are going to use tung oil to finish them...very rustic look. No one in Alaska carries the tung oil we want to use so we are waiting for Fed Ex to deliver it in a couple of days. Can't wait to show the "after" photo!

We have another showing of our current home today...cross your fingers we get an offer soon.

A Good "Busy"

It's been busy. We've been working on "finishing" the wood floors in the new house and keeping the current house ready for showing prospective buyers. Two showings this week. I have been sneaking in time to work on the borders of Batiki Argyle.

I went mirror shopping last week for the new house and somehow wound up at a quilt store. I think I stumbled upon a great fabric to use for the outermost border on the bottom of the photo. The light batik is the darker of my backgrounds in the quilt.

I also came home with a great mirror for the new house that was a fabulous price...I'll show that some day when I get it hung...maybe next week. I want to paint the bathroom a different color before I hang the mirror. Not even moved in and I'm changing wall colors!

Onward

I got the center of Batiki Argyle put together. This went so quickly. Now to tackle borders...I'm still playing with the actual make up of those on EQ.

Sewing Up a Storm

My Batiki Argyle quilt is coming together pretty quickly. I have half of the rows sewn together.