Spring into Spring

Starting the day with appliqué 

I'm working on the front of the 

May Basket Tablestand.

Done - now on to the back.  

Tablestands are some of my favorite little quilts,

especially the backs as they are usually

four 6" squares.  I started doing them just 

because of the 6" squares on the back.  

I should be able to show them to you next week.

I hope everyone had a good Easter weekend.

We decided to leave the coconut off of the

bunny cake this year for a change.

The weather was warm enough that 

he didn't need it to keep warm. :).

Gardening on the deck has begun in Ernest.

This year I cheated a little and got some lettuce 

plants at the greenhouse.  I planted a row of 

zinnias (small ones) behind then and they've already 

started sprouting.

And besides my herbs and succulents

I planted a few more zinnia seeds 

in the teapot for a splash of color.

This is Hovering Hawks and Peonies by

Denise French and the design of this

quilt has a little story.

I originally saw a picture of a full size quilt with

this border and these blocks.  It was in a book about

quilts of the Mormon migration.

I decided to make a wallhanging using the designs from

the picture so I drafted the blocks and drew out the borders.

And let me tell you those Hovering Hawks blocks 

weren't easy to draft - at least not for me.

Somewhere in this process a quilt magazine asked me

for quilt designs and I submitted this one, telling them

that it was an adaptation of an antique quilt.

They published the quilt but somehow forgot

to say it was an adaptation of an antique quilt.

Luckily after an outcry a different magazine author

wrote an article defending people who went to the

trouble to work out patterns from antiques so we all

could enjoy them.

But I made double sure after that when I sent patterns

from antique quilts that the publisher would verify

that it originally came from an antique.

I still really like this little wallhanging and thank you 

Denise for doing such a beautiful job on it.

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We're having a really special Easter sale kit this week.

See you next week ladies.