wow Nina is working

Doing the next thing first meant getting this baby quilt ready for use.

It felt sew good to hear Nina humming away again.  I'd hoped to get my curtains finished that are to hang over my fabric shelves.  They will be my new design wall.  I still hope to get them done by Friday.

I am also focusing on lines and grids.  This is a basic grid formed by regularly sized and spaced lines.  Fast but a tad boring.

The backing for this is lines.  I need to get a little less predictable.  But it needed to match the first quilts for her brother and sister.  I was also thinking regularly used and not heirloom.  lol   Her sister and room mate's quilt is on the right.  I think their room is going to be pink and yellow.  Quilting will be a diagonal of a large wavy stitch.

Discovering that grids show up as columns has been mind altering.  And then there are all the spaces within the lines.  I am quite excited about this and ready to work on the columns for my wall hanging.  I want to break up the larger pieces of fabric.  Getting the flow of light and seeing that as a line showing direction is working.  But I'm wondering about the focal point.   

I am also wondering what The Needle and Thread Network is up to!

What...

... did the plough say to the tractor? Pull me closer, John Deere. Farmers' humour! ;^)

Thursday's tangent was to ignore the gale force winds that blew things over and around, dropped tree branches, dispersed the heat and to get that baby quilt sewn together.

All the horizontal quilting was done and I kinda liked the look.

But this will be washed lots so I stuck to the plan to outline each square.

It kind of works for the plaid on the back. I used a variegated thread on the back ,

and the front.

This was a quick quilt so I had used the envelope finish and after taking the front picture decided to add one more row of stitching to the edge. hmm, I'm thinking I could have lengthened my stitch more.

Today I'll be on my little lawn tractor, not green but I'll be cutting the green. And the brown. The farm yard has been grazed by the sheep this past week and they have better stuff to eat so they have been pretty choosy about what's been offered. So I'm the clean up crew!

Heat wave

It's official. We have a heat wave happening. Same temperature yesterday but it felt cooler because the humidity was down.

Hmm, I seem to be stuck in plain patchwork for these quick baby quilts. I should think about storing us some half square triangles or something. ;)

But I learned one time to let the fabric do the work so here we have Daddy's work logo for a backing, a subtle pattern that fits momma's decor, and something cuddly for the baby.

My current helper. I gave him bread to toss to the chickens. What I didn't realize was that he can open the gate so he and the dog had a wonderful time chasing chickens while I was working on the other side of the yard. oops! He also showed me how the broody hen pecked him as he caught one of her chicks to hold. Tough little guy! No harm done except I expect there will be a bit of a barn dance when they see me take him home today. .