Whew!
Whew! I have had a great session in the studio. Sometimes when I tackle a step in the quilting process and take it slow, miraculously the next step comes to mind. I had no idea how to quilt down the two borders. The center of the quilt is busy enough to carry the entire quilt. I already had the walking foot on the sewing machine with the seam guide already attached. I decided to channel quilt the two borders at two inches apart. I do not have any definite plans on the center blocks. They are large enough that there will need to be something done. Sometimes, less is more. I had already free-motion quilted them prior to deciding to make this quilt. The original plan was to make pillows. Seriously . . . making and stuffing eight pillows! I have more to channel quilt but the shoulders gave it up.
When Megan was visiting, she wanted to make something for Nicholas. She finished it off by using the guide on the walking foot and did a lot of hatch quilting on it. Her hatch design was about two inches apart at the intersections. Sweet! With that coming to mind today, it was a huge surprise when she texted me with an attached photo. Megan interned at a girl’s shelter during early spring. Someone had donated a really nice Singer portable sewing machine. No one knew how to use it. Megan took it home to her apartment and cleaned it, and checked it out. She even bought a small amount of fabric and took it back to the shelter. When Carrie’s were here for Easter, Megan shared that the girls at the shelter were thrilled to actually sew some squares of the fabric together. Megan gave me kudos for having taught her enough to pull it all together for others.
Today all of the dead lilac trimmings from last Saturday made it to the tree dump. There was even a cedar bush that got cut down. Years ago a birdie popped a seed and the trunk of the bush was now as big as my closed fist. Time flies and some things grow faster than others. Had we tried to buy a small shrub and get it started . . . the rest of the story.
With that I will take my leave. ♥