Lovely Spring Colors

Don't you love it when the dead of winter ends and new life springs forth?! My yard is showing it's colors.

We planted daffodil bulbs last fall. The soil was so rocky I wondered if any would come up. But they have.

There's lots of new color inside as well. I made this pillow from 2.5" pieces of fabric called mini charms. I love the happy colors from Moda Fabrics:

In 2014 I participated in a "block-of-the-month" quilt-along. It was a very challenging learning experience, but I'm pleased with my completed quilt.

Here's a close-up - I enjoyed hand quilting, outlining some of the designs with a red running stitch. Don't you love the fabric that says "Dishes Men Like." Now that's a very vintage sentiment!

Has spring come to your part of the world yet? Any pretty flowers "springing" up?

Happy Sewing,

Mary

Busy Fun Week

The Masonite siding on our house, where we've lived the past five years, was falling off in patches, so we saved and saved and saved and finally, this summer had new siding and windows installed ~ 

I love the gray with black and white trim - so very colonial. We became more interested in landscaping once the house redo was completed. Elizabeth (18) and I began creating a new flower bed around our mail box, starting with five of these lovely fall mums ~ 

I recently completed the August block-of-the-month - following along with Amy Gibson (Stichory Dickory Dock). Can't believe we've completed eight blocks with very little effort already. I even got to learn English paper piecing, which was on my list of things to do in 2014 - it was a real challenge but I've conquered it ~ 

The cherry fabric is from Lori Holt's Bake Sale line. Lori blogs at Bee in my Bonnet. I love visiting to see her cottage full of wonderfully painted furniture, as well as her many quilts. Lori has two books out (and word has it there'll soon be a third). Quilty Fun and Great Granny Squared are both available on her blog.

Here's a quilt I made earlier this year from her Quilty Fun book ~ 

That's it for this week, friends, hope you have a lovely week.

~ Mary 

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