A Quilting Reader's Garden

Tour Guide

Some of my cousins from Houston, TX are here for two weeks and I've been acting as tour guide in the last few days.

First stop - The Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda.

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This is the house Nixon's father ordered and built (it was a kit) on their 9 acre ranch. It's 900 square feet.

The beds had quilts!

They were used all the time. Here is a basket block quilt with signatures in the master bedroom.

This one was crocheted - a log cabin variation.

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This is the flag embroidered by one of the POWs.

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There was also Pat Nixon's garden.

and a 140 year old rose!

the Rose Parade (My two cousins went along for the ride.)

I would have taken more photos inside the exhibits, however my battery was running low. More later.

Some of This, Some of That 6/9/19

Stash report: Finished another baby quilt top, but I can't count any of that square yard as it all came out of three donations I got for St. Anne's.

The panel block in the center is a printed copy of a illustration done by Mabel Lucie Attwal, (4 June 1879 – 5 November 1964), a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, based on her daughter, Peggy. - from Wikipedia. Believe this one was from the 40s or 50s and printed for Woodrow Studios in TN. The center blocks are those made from Jenny Doan's Super Easy Hour Glass tutorial. The outer border came from an idea by Katy Quilts. I love this layout as it eliminates a lot of bulk in the corners when you sew the HSTs together.

The only thing I can claim for destashing is the 0.2 yd I used for the background of my studio wall hanging and the pink and blue solid border in the top (.11 yd). New YTD destashing is at 44.46 yards.

Again I didn't quilt/sew for two days last week - the mojo was trying to escape again. I did a lot of Grand kids interaction and that was fun. So here's a few snapshots of them: