It started out innocently enough, an email from a local quilt shop advertising about an upcoming BOM. I liked the pattern but wasn’t crazy about the colors they had chosen. On further looks, I figured out that the original fabric line on the pattern was much more in “my” colors. On further further looks I figured out it was a fabric line from four years ago. I spent three days looking for a finding enough of it to make this quilt. The majority of the fabric came from Melbourne Australia, an Etsy shop called CraftopiaOz. What they didn’t have I found in four other online shops, one in Mississippi. Once that was done, I downloaded the pattern and found the special ruler and videos on how to. The technique looks easy and the results are precise. The designer is Ruth Robin https://www.robinruthdesign.com I have looked through her other patterns and found a few more I’d like to make. Since I’ll have the rulers it’ll be easier. I have always like William Morris prints and styles, the whole craftsman era intrigues me. Minimal and functional yet opulent in color and texture. Another rabbit hole found and happily entered.

The old part of this post is about the Dresden plate quilt I am doing as a custom quilting. It is so well done, and the fabrics are in such good shape. There are scraps of fabric prints that I know I have seen in current fabric lines, and others that are classic house dress prints. I have it mounted on the frame, and I am hoping to get it quilted this weekend. The panto is called 1930’s Posies, I may have to scale it a bit, and it is going to be stitched in a very light pink. The backing is boring solid white, I may have to wind some bobbins, but I may have one or two pre wounds.

My trip to Canada was really fun and it is such a welcoming and beautiful place, I will go back again. I did see a few quilts and the small island I was on had a guild. I have a dream of moving there when I am an old widow. My DH wouldn’t last a week there, it is an artist community with all kinds of groups and activities for crafters and artists. There is a general store and a coffee/ice cream shop, plus a little museum and a sculpture walk. Stunning views and lush forests, organic farms and flowers everywhere.

Once I got home I got to work on longarm quilting the two baby quilts, I was able to make one backing for them by sewing a waste strip between them. Quilting them up was then a simple task. Once I finish the Dresden, I have two more baby quilts (Winnie the Pooh) as a commission. Then maybe I can get to more quilts for the shop. Last weekend I put together the other WTP quilt top I had the fabric for. I had ordered the original kit and an extra panel, a 5″ stack and a few yards to make two. Of course I have enough scraps to make another small quilt, I may just do a disappearing 9 patch to be done with it. Other quilts I want to quilt this summer are the Constellations, the Blooming Beauty BOM, Peter Rabbit, Postcards from Sweden, and the Halloween Batik one.

Cross stitching has been slowly getting done, I haven’t worked on the Mermaid in a while. Just working on the Berries one, by the time I get the puppies in their crates for sleepy time, I am ready to fall into bed myself.

Be Kind.