A Quilting Reader's Garden

I Like Thursdays and Finish For Friday

Let's give a Whoop, Whoop! It's been raining all day. Praise the Lord! A steady rain except when a cell comes over - then it's a downpour for a couple of minutes. We're so grateful. I pray for our SoCal neighbors to the West which are in the Woolsey Fire area. They are on notice to evacuate if the authorities call about potential mud slides.

I've been working on a crochet project. Some stitching to do as I watch Dr. Blake - my evening quiet time with DH. The quilt under it is one I made back in the early 2000s - maybe 2002. It was a New Year's Eve Mystery by the yahoo group, The Quilting Post. It was suppose to be a bed size quilt. I decided to make a mini. I ran across it the other day as I was putting away Christmas things and told myself I should put it out. A bit big for the table, but I like it.

Here it is finished. Took only three episodes. This is a baby washcloth I'll include with the baby quilt I started today. I like how the colors match.

Not sure what it will look like as I'm designing as I go. This will be for St. Anne's so all I need to add are three more rows to make it 36" square.

I also finished a little mug rug made from scraps as a gift for a dear friend. Her birthday is next week.

And I really like this quilt I found at Shark's Dinner - it may be my next EPP. She's making a BOM out of it and has designed nine other blocks to go with the first three.

I'm linking to Lee Anna's I Like Thursdays, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Finished or Not Fridays, and a few others. See my linky party buttons at more tab under the header . Blessings!

Another for 2019

In addition to my ufo challenge I'm planning to follow along with Jenny Elefantz in her Gentle Art of Domesticity year. Jenny says of the author, Jane Brocket: "It’s her ability to organically bring domestic arts into her home and family life that makes this my number one go-to book for inspiration when the monotony of my own domestic life has caused me to grumble and not be as appreciative as I could be, and as I only need spend 10 minutes reading a complete double page topic, it’s something I don’t have to put off till a free afternoon or an hour alone. I quite often drink my afternoon coffee, smile at her thoughts on ‘quinces’, let my shoulders drop softly as I ponder them, and am gently refreshed whilst transported to a sweeter, quieter place in my heart."

Jenny has a very inspiring blog where she shares her thoughts on a gentler life. She is offering a POM - a project of the month as she is an accomplished designer of items to enhance one's place. And as I move into my seventh decade, this really appeals to me. I hope to simplify and enrich my household in this coming year.

My meditation corner

My 2019 UFO Challenge

I'm continuing to work on my UFOs. Do they ever end? LOL. Here goes. And since I only got five done last year, I'm only going to set 6 goals this year. Working on one for two months each - maybe I can do better. Fingers crossed.

1. Sandwich and quilt this top from Karen at Faeries and Fibres QAL

Done

2. Make the patchwork blocks for Anna's Garden.

In fact, make the remaining applique blocks a Block of the Month challenge - our 50th came and went and this anniversary quilt didn't. Sighh. That's why I've signed up for DJ's 2019 Create Your Own BOM.