One step

There's a saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.  I think admitting that I had lost the quilting bug last week kind of jump started me.  That, and I had to go in the stash closet to look for something, and while I was there I saw some really pretty fabric.  When I thought of a project, I thought of something small and pulled out a Ruby McKim flower block.  This one is delphinium.  It has a lot of pieces, but it was already prepped and mostly cut out, so there I went.  I've only gotten a few leaves sewn down, but I have high hopes that if I put it in my way and trip over it enough times, I'll get it finished.  

I've made 19 of 25 blocks and  I really should finish that quilt.  

I've also been thinking about this pattern from a long time ago.  It's a great scrappy quilt that goes together easily and that I was using to make Linus quilts.  I enjoyed making Linus quilts and would like to do that again.  It's called Barbed Wire and I've made it in several colors.  I can't remember who published it though.  

There were a couple of new daylilies.  This one looks much like one I've shown before.  So close that I had to pick two flowers and hold them next to one another to see the differences.  This one is a larger flower with a darker red in the petals than the one from a couple weeks ago.  

This one is a beautiful dark red.  A friend shared it with me a few years ago.  It only gave me one scape last year and one this year.  Maybe it needs a little more sun.  I took this right after a rain, so it's covered with water droplets.

This white daylily came out of nowhere.  It's growing from a clump of green daylilies.  I'll try to mark and separate it when I divide in the fall.  

Anybody remember this quilt from several years ago?  It was a raffle quilt for the guild.  I was "on the committee" so got to help design and make it.  Guild members made blocks.  I haven't found a picture of the quilt, this is just the paper pattern we created before we started cutting and sewing.  I made the triple feathered star in the center.  We used red prints and we all spent days washing excess dye out.  I ended up boiling some fabric to try to get out excess dye.  It ended up being a beautiful quilt and if I can find a picture, I'll share it next week.  I made a quilt that was inspired by this one but scrappy.  I made two of the triple feathered stars in red/white.  One test, to see if I could piece this complex block and one that went into the quilt.  The test block is the center of my scrappy star quilt.  

Everybody have a great week!  If you have something you've gotten bored with and stopped but you wish you hadn't, take a baby step.  See what happens.  I may not be any further along on that flower block next week.  Or, it may be nearly finished.  Who knows.  We'll have to wait to find out.

Lane

Listen to the big baby whine when he gets treated like everyone else.  I think maybe that's the biggest insult, treating him like everyone else.  Not playing into his message that he is somehow special.  I would like to see another massive fine.  Hit him where it hurts.  Make him put up another bond before he can appeal.  I don't think we're ready as a country to jail him, no matter how many things he's done to deserve it.  Crumble his image by making him look small, feeble, and common and his followers will walk away.