5/10/10

The Cinderella quilt and Mother's Day

First off, thanks to the home team for basically letting me do whatever I wanted to do this weekend. They took me out for Barbecue on Saturday night and then did the grocery shopping for me yesterday morning and made me a big breakfast and a big lunch and every time I asked what I needed to do, they sent me away. I also got a Norman Rockwell plate that I'll show one week for VTT and a card from Rob and a dozen roses and a handmade card from the kid. All was well for the man-mom.

That gave me the time to redo this little quilt. This is a Project Linus quilt that was started by someone else, either the girl scouts or a school group. They drew the Cinderella story and I thought it was so cute. But, there was a block that said Dad Died, which is true to the story, but Linus couldn't risk the quilt getting to a child whose Dad had died, so they were going to scrap it. I took it and after a year and a half, I finally got around to fixing it. It was tied and I took those out, took the sandwich apart, drew a dark cloud over the previous words and wrote "sad days" in the block that had little Cindy crying. Then I quilted the heck out of it and machine bound it (my first machine binding ever!) We washed it yesterday and now it's ready to add to the bag of projects to send back to Linus.



I also got time to work on my hand sewing project. All the squares are finished and this is the layout I picked. I have all the rows assembled and am about to start sewing them together. I decided to go with 36 instead of 42 squares and will use four of the remaining squares in the corners after I add the border. Now, I just have to find something for the border.



And, next weekend, Rob has planned an outing for us to an outdoor quilt show in Boerne (pronounced burney), TX. They have the show arranged around the town at all the little stores and on the square and we're going to see how much trouble we can get into.

Hope your Mother's Day or your Man-mom's day or however you celebrated anything special this weekend was as wonderful. Take care and we'll see ya round the www. Lane

5 comments:

Becky said...

What a neat idea to fix the Linus quilt! I'm loving the colors in the hand pieced quilt. Great choice for layout. I'm glad you had a restful, fun weekend, too!

Trish said...

Man-mom's day....I like it!!! Does that mean Rob gets Father's day? I'm jealous of your machine quilting...I'm still trying to get the hang of it.

lw said...

Happy belated Man-mom day! I love how the drunkard's path is turning out. And good idea for the Linus quilt. You've been really productive lately.

My girls brought me fabrics for Mother's day-- I've got an idea for a quilted tablecloth I want to make. Wish I had more time to sew...

Elizabeth said...

Glad you had a nice weekend. Nice job with the Cinderella quilt! And I absolutely love that little hand-pieced quilt. The colors are fabulous and I love he way you've laid it out.

Sunshine said...

That's a lovely quilt - and I like the way you made it useful for Project Linus after all...

It's also neat to have a quilt show all throughout town, rather than just in big field - so you can sight- and quilt-see at the same time ;) And the shops probably get lots more business haha

Cheers,
Christine