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An Afternoon on the Pocomoke

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Last week while on spring break, we went to Virginia and visited B's mom. After a couple of days there we went to eastern Maryland had an afternoon canoe trip on the Pocomoke River. I took many pictures but have boiled the trip down to a reasonable number to share with you.

It was a great afternoon but I wish I had worn sunscreen and a hat.

Zinnias is Taking a Trip

I am excited to share with you that my quilt, Zinnias, was chosen to be in the Modern Quilt Guild Showcase at the International Quilt Festival this fall in Houston! I am honored and thrilled that it was one of 33 quilts selected for the exhibit.

The Modern Quilt Guild Showcase exhibition may also travel to Cincinnati next Spring and then to Long Beach, California next summer for the Quilt Festivals in those cities. I don't think I"ll get to Houston or Long Beach but I may try to get to the Cincinnati show!

Happy Drawing Tops

When these Happy Drawing fabrics arrived from Cloud9 I could hardly wait to cut into them. Michelle said she wanted three tops the same size from the same pattern. This vintage Simplicity pattern from my collection was perfect to show off these great fabrics.

P helped me go through some buttons jars to find buttons to suit each fabric. We found some gray leather ones for the elephant fabric, the perfect green for the owls and some white balls that reminded me of eyes for the frogs.

I guess it's a good thing these are too small for miss P or we wouldn't want to mail them to Michelle.

We do, however, have a few scraps of each fabric to play with.

The Back Story

Each quilt I make has some sort of inspirational moment - something that makes me actually start the quilt.

This quilt started with the back, this one yard piece of baby flannel.

I picked this fabric up at a garage/rummage sale many years ago. Back then, I made pajamas for the boys out of most of my thrifted flannel. I made a few more baby items when miss P was small but this one somehow got left behind. The last few times I have cleaned my sewing room I put it in the purge bag. Each time I also took it out thinking that it would make a good backing for a baby quilt. Well, this last time as I took it out of the give away bag I told myself "If you are going to put this on the back of a baby quilt you had better do it NOW."

And that's what I did. I pulled three solid fabrics in the colors of the flannel print and added scraps from the top of my scrap basket. The scraps are mostly from my recent quilts.

Here it is in all of it's washed, crinkled, and sunshine glory. I love the mix of squares and half square triangles.

I think it makes a pretty happy looking baby quilt. Not bad for a clean up the sewing room inspired quilt.

It measures 36 by 42 inches.  

Recital Day

We've had a busy week. P made and sent invitations and made more blank note cards as a gift for her teacher.

She practiced and rehearsed.

Yesterday we did lots of baking.

Today was the big day. She wore a fancy dress and played all the songs in her Suzuki Cello Book One. It was hard work but she did it! Thank goodness we had "after snacks"!

I didn't take any pictures there but I did manage to video the whole thing.

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Slowed Progress

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With the sudden arrival of spring weather this week work in the sewing room has slowed to a crawl. I have making a little progress on quilting this quilt. I'm stitching a serpentine line through the scrappy parts and haven't quite decided what to do in the background yet. I'll probably have it figured out by the time I finish the other part of the quilting.

We have been out enjoying the warm weather a bit though.

We even saw some bare feet this week!

Yay! I love the warm sunny weather - even when it slows the sewing progress to a snail's pace.

We plan to get some peas planted in the garden this weekend.What about you? What are your weekend plans?

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