It's still One Flower Wednesday

Encouraging Words of the Day:

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.- John 13:34 (NLT)

 

It's "One-Flower Wednesday" and this will sound like a repeat of last week since I made one 1/2-inch flower surrounded with the green leafy fabric and one without.

Total is now 207. This is going to take forever.

I've also received these beautiful flowers from my February partner in the "Inchy-Hexagon Flower Swap." Thanks, Ros. They're gorgeous.

I've been busy finishing up the quilt I started in the "Pile 'o Fabric Quilt-Along of 2013." I finally got that done and gave it to my husband since he had been pointing out recently that I give quilts to everyone but he has never gotten one. Well, he can't say that any more. Here is "Johnny's Quilt." The quilting was quilt-as-you-go and I was pretty excited about how quickly it all came together.

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That is all.

 

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"One-Flower Wednesday"

Encouraging Words of the Day:

This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Psalm 118:24, NLT

Well, I did break my self-imposed plan to use only stash as much as possible. I had to buy the background fabric for the leafy spacers for my 1/2-inch hexies. So I cut several hexie shapes with my Go-Baby cutter and proceeded to baste several hundred of these. I have a pile of them which I baste while my husband and I watch our newly-discovered series of "Breaking Bad."

Then I decided that for this week's flowers, I'd sew a few of these leafy hexies around a flower. Man, is that a job! It takes 12 sides of sewing hexies together to make a little flower but 42 sides to make a flower surrounded by the green leafy fabric. Much longer this way! Here one I completed along with a regular flower.

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That is all.

 

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Working on UFOs

Encouraging Words of the Day:

And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. - Ephesians 3:18 (NLT)

UFOs have been on my mind lately so I've been working on getting a few of those out of the way, keeping in mind that I WILL use my stash to complete projects. I've done pretty well in that department lately. As for UFOs, I'm determined to finish a quilt I started in the "Pile 'o Fabric Quilt-Along of 2013." This entailed a quilt-as-you-go project and now that I'm finishing it, I love the quilt-as-you-go quilting. It's so much easier to quilt one block at a time with my sewing machine and sew them together after. I've got 5 strips of 4 blocks each almost completed. Then I'll sew the strips together and almost be done. Here are photos of what I'm doing.

That border between them is how the blocks are joined. I was surprised at the instructions for joining the blocks but it works! Almost magical.

Then I still have two quilt tops to sandwich and quilt, those being my Christmas quilt which I WILL complete in time for Christmas 2014 and my namesake, the "Good-night, Irene" quilt. I wish I had known hot to quilt-as-you-go before I got the tops all sewn together. I guess I'll have to do those the old-fashioned, tedious, time-consuming way.

That is all.

 

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One Flower Wednesday in El Paso

Encouraging Words of the Day:

"You don't have enough faith," Jesus told them. "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible." - Matthew 17:20 NLT

We're back in El Paso and, of course, I sewed hexie flowers for 6 hours. I made 12 but am only showing you these three today on "One-Flower Wednesday."

 

I've been looking for some light green fabric to surround my little 1/2 inch hexies with. I thought maybe a pale jade green but my sister suggested (insisted?) that I find a green fabric in a leaf print. I've been searching everywhere and finally found this:

There were 8 yards left on the bolt so I bought it all but only after taking the photo and sending it to Ida blogging at "My sister made me do it..." for her approval. Yes! She loves it too. (Sometime "she" makes me do stuff too.)

I found these beautiful flowers waiting in my mailbox. They're from Sandra from California, my March partner in the "Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap."

I love the colors she chose. Thanks, Sandra.

Now back to sewing and puttering in my sewing room which I miss so much when I'm gone. I guess I'll cut out a bunch of hexie shapes from the green print too.

That is all.

 

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Hands2Help Quilting

Encouraging Words of the Day:

And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. - Colossians 3:15a NLT

Sarah from "Confessions of a Fabric Addict" is once again hosting the Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge. This year there are three charities to choose from:

Option #1 - Quilts of Compassion makes and collects quilts that are then given to a wide variety of people, but most recently they have been handing out quilts to people suffering from the after-effects of the tornadoes that have hit the midwest.

Option #2 - Hurricane Sandy Survivors in New Jersey, helping Hurricane Sandy survivors rebuild their homes and lives.

Option #3 - Happy Chemo. You can choose to make quilts for Happy Chemo, an organization that provides quilts and comfort for chemo patients.

So far I have worked on this little quilt for Quilts of Compassion. I found the pattern called "What does the fox say?" in a magazine. It is quilted and ready to go except for the white tip of the fox's tail. Somehow, I left that piece out and found it later on the floor. So I just need to applique that piece and this little quilt will be done.

The other quilt was completed some time ago and will go to the Happy Chemo group.

That is all.

 

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One Flower Wednesday in the Texas Hill Country

Encouraging Words of the Day:

For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. - Philippians 4:13 (NLT)

Thank goodness for "One-Flower Wednesday." Sometimes I think that I'd get no blogging done if it wasn't for "One-Flower Wednesday." At least I know that I'll manage to get a post done to show you my flowers. Here are three little flowers.

Total is now 200.

We've been busy. Our daughter and family came to the ranch to spend Easter with us. The days have been rainy and/or sunny. Today was beautiful. We're still in the middle of a drought so all the beautiful wildflowers we should have are not around. We occasionally find a few. Since there aren't wildflowers to show you, I'll show you this beautiful photo taken by Catherine at "Knotted Cotton."

These little flowers look exactly how I want my GFG with my little half-inch flowers to look. Catherine gave me permission to use her photo. Thanks, Catherine

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, wildlife is all around, birds going crazy eating corn in the bird feeders along with a squirrel who is enjoying the bird feed as well. We've seen whitetail deer at the feeders enjoying their corn and protein supplement but we haven't had any luck killing feral hogs yet. We're having a lovely time though so I'm off. Until later...

that is all.

 

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Still Wednesday Somewhere

Encouraging Words of the Day:

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. - 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT)

We traveled to the Texas Hill Country yesterday. I was so excited to get here that I almost forgot that today is "One-Flower Wednesday" even though I sewed hexie flowers all day long on the road trip out here. Well, it's still Wednesday in Central Daylight Saving Time Zone so here are three little flowers to show you. One of them has a little rabbit on it wishing all of you a "Happy Easter."

This brings my total to 197. I have more than that since I sewed lots of flowers on the drive but I'm saving the rest to show you in future Wednesdays. Click on “One Flower Wednesday” to see flowers others have made.

That is all.

 

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