saturday sewing

another gray, rainy, damp day outside but inside the sewing machine is busy....with my 'hosanna' wall quilt all pieced (and basted too!), time for another UFO for the machine....passed over 'civil war diary' for the scrappy double wedding ring.  would be nice to get this to a flimsy this year...

the rows are 6 x 5 so closing in one row 1.....good thing i saved the magazine and my rudimentary layout drawing, otherwise......you know the rest!

last night was tinkering with border pieces for the dutch chintz panel....it's english paper pieced and wasn't totally certain how to manage the elongated hexagons.   have a friend who does lots of EPP and is very good at it, naturally....but it's a skill hardly used by me.  how to make it work?

have 64 of these units to make and had to break one of my personal quilting rules by using a tad of roxanne's glue to tack down the sides and then thread baste the ends.  proceeded to sew a few together to make sure it would work....and it does.  i don't like to use adhesives of any kind on my projects but felt like it was the only way.  it's more hand work that will be a good take along project if i were going anywhere...not likely... also for zoom meetings and such.  *** but the very best news this week?  both mum and i are getting shots next week if anticipated vaccine available.  even rain can't ruin that parade....

weekend excuse

 nope, didn't get to housework this weekend as planned....and this is why

an idea that turned out exactly as hoped....at marianne's get together nearly two years ago, fabric was flung and these green hand dyes came my way.  they were small pieces, scraps really, but too pretty to use just anywhere.  saw this block--aptly titled hosanna--triggering quilty muse.  used my cute little bird fabric for sashings and the whole time i worked on this, my sunday school lesson on palm sunday percolated in my mind.  couldn't be more pleased with the result.  it'll get hand quilted SOON and then binding with green in time for palm sunday.  and just this morning heard a bird outside my window, in spite of THIS!!!!

weatherman says over by one-ish....and then warmer all week, hoping this is the last.  so no more excuses, will be tackling that housework now.  and if you are of a certain age, today is notable for this gentleman....

in school the teacher would pass out mimeographed coloring pages of washington and lincoln and the classroom was decorated in red/white/blue.  all washington's grisly flaws have come to light, but none should diminish the courage, persistence and leadership that forged our nation.  no man is perfect, but he and his efforts shouldn't be tainted by 21st cultural mores.  God bless America!