{Post #932} Bow Tie Center Finished

This AM I finished sewing my bow tie quilt center.  Here are some pictures.  I picked border fabric.  The plaid alternate blocks are dark cream with sage green and eggplant color plaid lines.

I was packaging up my surprise package that was posted today.  Spontaneity overtook me, and I took a self-portrait.  On the cutting edge of technology, I tell you.  Photoshop can only do so much!  ;)

If statistics can be believed, I'm one of only 2% of the world's population with green eyes.  


~Joan

{Post #931} Bow Ties Partly Set

Here is how much I have sewn together of my bow tie top.  I have one more diagonal row put together, and that will be the final row, making the set of blocks 7 x 8.

I am really liking the setting plaid.  I didn't measure the piece before I started, and it turns out that I will have just enough after cutting the corner and side triangles as well as the 6-1/2" alternate blocks.  I think I have 2 of the square blocks left over.  That was cutting it close!  I am going to use a sage green for an inner border and a dark purple for the outer border.  Those are the two colors in the plaid with the dark cream.


In other breaking news, Elisabeth mowed our yard today and cut down the prolific monkey grass around our huge natural areas.  Thanks, Elisabeth!!

Rachel had oral surgery yesterday AM and is doing fantastic!!  Here is a bad pic of some lovely flowers she rec'd as a get-well from our church family:

{Post #930} Possible Layout

I really want to make a plaid quilt.  I also am not thrilled with using side-by-side-by-side bow tie blocks.  What do you think of this on-point setting with plaid alternate blocks?  Best of both worlds or yuck?

~Joan

{Post #929} Mail Surprise

Got a nice surprise in the mail today.  Two actually, but this one is a quilty one!

Leeanne is one of my bloggy friends from New Zealand.  She sent me these lovely bow tie blocks to add to my collection.  That was so thoughtful!  This afternoon I sewed them to some of my others.  Yippee!


~Joan

{Post #927} Red Zinger

Here is the progress on my Red Zinger as of this moment.  I also have the bottom selvage border pieced, measured, cut, and ready to sew on.  I would have sewn it on already, but duty calls.

Here is my favorite fabric in the top selvage border...the monkey in the middle.  So cute. 

I'll tell ya...making a selvage quilt is like making a library of your fabrics.  A tiny piece of them all!  Well, at least the ones you've taken the time to cut the selvages off of :)


TTFN, Joan

{Post #926} Red Zinger

Below are the 36 blocks of my beloved Red Zinger quilt.  I admit it...I love selvage projects.  Having Sam and Pam here pushed me to finish the center of this.  I finished all the blocks this AM and have one 30" section of selvage piano key border finished for the outermost border.  


Yesterday I took out my stack of I spy fabrics to cut some squares and shave off all THOSE selvages.  So now my collection is big again, and bright as well.

{Post #925} Sam and Mary Jo

This is me and my friend, Sam.  I am in the pink jacket.  She drove down to NC from TN with a friend to see me and Mary Jo's.  Here we are at Mary Jo's, which has gone under a major change about a month ago.  Here is a picture of the "new" inside of the store.

Gone are the butcher-paper hanging-down signs.  In are the lime green fuzzy rectangle signs with the fabric types glued on each side.  

Sam and Pam (her friend) had a great time in NC and on the way...and I'm assuming on the way back.  They were planning on shopping until they were dropping!!

~Joan