WIPs Be Gone

I used the wrong setting.  That orange border is a nice peachy color. Oh well.  This St. Anne's top came from the book Quilt for Joy  by Barbara Brandenburg and Teri Christopherson.  I just made a smaller version.

Finished at 36" square and is now being sandwiched by another St. Anne's member.

Climate change did a number on a couple of our fruit trees.  We have a wonderful Pomelo tree that usually gives us a crop in January - February. Don't know this citrus?  Go here.  Our tree, shown below, usually gives us a good crop.  I usually send packages to family and friends as a Happy New Year gift.  In fact in Southeast Asia if you eat some on New Year's Day you'll have good luck.  This year we had two fruits.  One fell prematurely from too much rain and burst.  The other we got to pick.

Compared to a 6 oz cup - you can see how big this is.

Then you peel it - you can see how thick the rind is.

Once you finish peeling it you have this luscious pink fruit.

And the tree?  It's loaded with another big crop but way out of sync - It usually blooms in June and the fruit is ready in middle of winter. Now we don't know.

We have a grafted pink pommelo and it is delicious.  It's work to get to the flesh, but worth it.  What does it taste like?  Just like a naturally sweet grapefruit with no astringency.  Yum.

Hope you get to sew today.  I'm linking to some parties - you can see the links under my tab above.

Design Wall Monday

Left on my design wall is the exploded Nearly Insane block #9 (actually my 4th) which is now a quilt top.

I must have measured wrong somewhere because I had to add that small inner border to make it to size (my size that is of 30"). Now to decide on a back and it can come down to be sandwiched.

And here's my finished top.  I'm hoping to sandwich it in the next few days and get started on the quilting instead of adding it to the Ready to be Quilted pile.

Are you quilting or sewing?  I've done my 30 minutes today.  I'm participating in Annie's Sew 30 Sew Fun challenge.  Join us.  Anything to keep me motivated.  Linking to some parties.  You can find them under my tab Linky Parties above.  Blessings!

Some of This, Some of That

Mom and I spent Friday at a local quilt show - the Inland Empire Quilt Guild's show in Norco, CA. It was a small show but very enjoyable and of course, had some great quilts. Here are three we liked (click on the photos to see them enlarged) :

a gorgeous One Block Wonder quilt

My Mom's favorite - a Pearl Pereira quilt - Fantasy Flowers made by
Cheryl Giovenco, quilted by Sheila Osbrink.

The label is below.  My favorite - The row of quilts opposite this beauty
kept me from getting back far enough to take a complete photo. Learn
more about it here.

A fabulous version!

Not much sewing done during the last two days.  This past week I used about 1/2 yd among my WIPs to add to the year's destashing total of 44.57 yds.

Another very busy second week of the month coming up.  I hope you have time to quilt. Blessings!