The Dresden Plate is at the top of my FAVORITE QUILTS LIST.
I have made two of my own and I have a third in progress. This quiltmaker repeated all of the fabrics identically in each plate, and also positioned them identically in the background square. She used different fabrics for the centers.
I quilted S.I.D. around the sashing, outside of the plates, and around the inside circle. Mauve thread was used in the sashing and inside the plates; the rest was white thread. The maker requested feminine quilting, so I went with flowers. So pretty.
One of my hobbies seems to be collecting selvages. I have, probably, twelve pounds of them by now. Never done a thing with them. But LOOK!!! I MADE SOMETHING!!!
OK, On to the garden update. Can anybody tell me what the hell these are?
I swear to God, I planted Butternut Squash seeds. I'm not sure any of them sprouted because I ended up with these football sized things, AND I have pumpkins growing too, which I also did not plant. I have "people" who do that for me. 😀 These HAD to come out of the compost, because that's where the pumpkin seeds would have been. I am accustomed to butternut squash growing from the compost, so when I had volunteers back in the spring I gave some seedlings to my neighbour. Won't she be surprised! ha ha ha, I'm so bad....
Cherry tomatoes have been ripening for about two weeks now. Oh, so good! And the rainy summer has made the peppers very happy - look at the size of that jalapeno. It is easily the size of the overfertilized produce that you buy at the grocery store, but mine are organic. Yay me.
Now, what you've all been waiting for...
ZUCCHINI REPORT
Picked this week: 13
Picked YTD: 59
This week I made five jars of Zucchini Pickles from one of my Bernardin cookbooks. I've never made them before, so hopefully they're edible.
I have made two of my own and I have a third in progress. This quiltmaker repeated all of the fabrics identically in each plate, and also positioned them identically in the background square. She used different fabrics for the centers.
I quilted S.I.D. around the sashing, outside of the plates, and around the inside circle. Mauve thread was used in the sashing and inside the plates; the rest was white thread. The maker requested feminine quilting, so I went with flowers. So pretty.
One of my hobbies seems to be collecting selvages. I have, probably, twelve pounds of them by now. Never done a thing with them. But LOOK!!! I MADE SOMETHING!!!
OK, On to the garden update. Can anybody tell me what the hell these are?
I swear to God, I planted Butternut Squash seeds. I'm not sure any of them sprouted because I ended up with these football sized things, AND I have pumpkins growing too, which I also did not plant. I have "people" who do that for me. 😀 These HAD to come out of the compost, because that's where the pumpkin seeds would have been. I am accustomed to butternut squash growing from the compost, so when I had volunteers back in the spring I gave some seedlings to my neighbour. Won't she be surprised! ha ha ha, I'm so bad....
Cherry tomatoes have been ripening for about two weeks now. Oh, so good! And the rainy summer has made the peppers very happy - look at the size of that jalapeno. It is easily the size of the overfertilized produce that you buy at the grocery store, but mine are organic. Yay me.
Now, what you've all been waiting for...
ZUCCHINI REPORT
Picked this week: 13
Picked YTD: 59
This week I made five jars of Zucchini Pickles from one of my Bernardin cookbooks. I've never made them before, so hopefully they're edible.
Cute Dresden quilt and yes your quilting IS pretty!
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