UFO #3

Well, back from vacation - more on that later - and after catching up (don't you just love it that you have to hurry up and catch-up with life after taking a vacation!), I've finished Verse by the Side of the Road, a block swap I participated in with an online group in 2005. I got the top done, but then the top got buried! This featured 30s fabrics and sayings from Burma Shave. You'd find these jingles along the major US highways - one line at a time - every few miles. Think of them as the first of billboards eye level to your car. Here's one jingle:

If you must sample

her pucker paint,

better drive

where traffic ain't.

Burma Shave

I had a friend write and say she saw some in Kentucky recently. I thought they were all gone. I saw them in my youth on parts of US 66 which are now part of Interstate 10 and 40 when we drove between Houston and California. Sure cut down on the drudgery of those long drives.

UFO #2

Okay, I finally got UFO #2 done, albeit two months overdue, but it is done. I love log cabin designs, but after making two, I don't like making them. Sooooo, I came up with a simplified one. Someone may have come up with this before me, but I can't remember who or if I saw it in a mag or book - I read of lot of them and if you'd like to see a partial list of my quilt books, you can go to http://www.angiesbookshelf.com/ to see them under the keyword quilting. So here is my version of furrows: I just kept grabbing from my stash to make this scrappy version. The little blue squares are fusible raw edge applique. I wanted to try another all over quilting pattern and chose baptist fan. It quilted quickly and was easy to do going from side to side. You can see the quilting in the light areas. This quilt measures about 40 X 48. I was happy it used up some big size scraps!

I'm finishing the quilting on UFO #3 and I'll be able to show it to you once I get back from Puerto Rico.

Quilting leads to contented hearts.

Bye for now!

The Sky is not Often Like This

This is sort of garden related. I was looking out my patio door and realized that before me was a scene not often seen around here - clouds. Two storms are suppose to be moving through the area. As a consequence, we've had a lot of wind and now these beautiful puffy white clouds are scudding through. It reminds me of Houston, TX - there, this is a common site. I'm enjoying this day - and I'll keep the photo for later in the year when the summer sun will relentless remind us that clouds don't figure in the general skyscape of Riverside CA.

Off to continue burying the threads on my finished UFO. I should be able to post a photo soon.

Until then!