Artful Homemade Quilts Have A Way

[freedombecki]

What I couldn't get over about Paddy's Red Pinwheel, is that I wasn't certain it would be Irish enough until the last piece was on it.

It's definitely one I would love to own, so hopefully, some needy child will get this childhood pinwheel quilt and enjoy it completely as I did making the top.

Edit-- oh, yes, it may be difficult to put this finished quilt with the earlier pictures of the pinwheels, which were incomplete, to put it mildly. The squares are 15 inches plus, and my little scanner only does 8.5x11" at best. Here's the earlier, blown up a little, one of six finished squares yesterday, today a top:

 

[koshergrl]

You are amazing, becki...I'm taking my mermaid outfit to the powwow with me tomorrow, and will probably finish it there. Then the infinity scarf....THEN I'm going to do some daisy granny squares...but the next real project over the summer is going to be regalia for the kids. Shiny shawls/vests/aprons/skirts/leggings/cuffs/goats....and the cloth is appliqued.. Satin.

 

[koshergrl]

Beautiful!

I love green..and it is my daughter's favorite color.

It's the color we will use for the primary color of her regalia...I think your next adventure should be BEADING, becki!

I've never beaded, but we're going to have to start...

I feel bad because where I come from, there are always beading classes and groups who are beading. It's a good sized reservation and pretty well funded by reservation standards...we have lots of artists and a cultural center...here the indigenous people of the area are very few, the reservation is small and poor and the culture is not only very different from the culture inland,it's been lost for the most part. There aren't many resources...the kids are already plugged into the primary one, the Indian Ed program. So beading is a little more complicated than back home, where you just join a class and go hang out on the rez once a week, with people who are very experienced and fabulous at creating regalia.

This is the first building block...the dress, the leggings, the vest, the shawl.

No beading on the vest or shawl..they are applique. Beading makes them too heavy:

The beading is in the form of mocassins, hair pieces, chokers, earrings, head bands....

 

[freedombecki]

Started and finished yesterday morning through around 11 o'clock or noon. I never know what time it is. Every clock in the house has a different opinion, and some always have the same opinion.

 

[freedombecki]

Beautiful!

I love green..and it is my daughter's favorite color.

It's the color we will use for the primary color of her regalia...I think your next adventure should be BEADING, becki!

I've never beaded, but we're going to have to start...

I feel bad because where I come from, there are always beading classes and groups who are beading. It's a good sized reservation and pretty well funded by reservation standards...we have lots of artists and a cultural center...here the indigenous people of the area are very few, the reservation is small and poor and the culture is not only very different from the culture inland,it's been lost for the most part. There aren't many resources...the kids are already plugged into the primary one, the Indian Ed program. So beading is a little more complicated than back home, where you just join a class and go hang out on the rez once a week, with people who are very experienced and fabulous at creating regalia.

This is the first building block...the dress, the leggings, the vest, the shawl.

No beading on the vest or shawl..they are applique. Beading makes them too heavy:

The beading is in the form of mocassins, hair pieces, chokers, earrings, head bands....

Way cute, koshergrl.

Think I'm gonna stick with quilts, koshergrl, and an occasional rug or pair of crocheted slippers, maybe some lace along the edge of a pillowcase now and then. If I had another hobby, it would be to carve alabaster for the rest of my life. I love sculpture. I'm starting row 16 on my sister's friend's rug for her kitchen in the colors of green and purple, which she loves. I'm using Sugar N Cream thread on a pound cone. When the work gets unwieldy, I change the stitches from 3 yos to 4 yos, which has a firming effect. Using this kind of variegation, I only know from counting where the thicker popcorns are. I figured I'd have to do the last rows in the heavier stitch, and saved yarn along the way. It may be more evident as the little rug is washed. Crochet cottons tend to shrink by 20% in the use of this delightful stitch, which I've also turned into my favorite method of crocheting potholders.

Scan 1 Back of popcorn rug

Scan 2 Front

Scan 3 Center area

 

[Sunshine]

Well, Beckums, I'm back on the table cloth. I took it to Gulf Shores, but didn't work on it there. I have two of the church/tree patterns and then about half of the small border row, the entire long border row, and about half the snowflakes to do. I hate working border rows.

 

[koshergrl]

I cart mystuff with me everywhere, and very seldom work on it.

Carted it to the pow wow, didn't touch it, lol.

 

[Sunshine]

I have to get my cross stitch quilt quilted. I'm not going to do it myself but keep forgetting to call the people here who do hand quilting.

 

[freedombecki]

Well, Beckums, I'm back on the table cloth. I took it to Gulf Shores, but didn't work on it there. I have two of the church/tree patterns and then about half of the small border row, the entire long border row, and about half the snowflakes to do. I hate working border rows.

I'm so glad you got to spend time on the beach, Sunshine. It's hard to do embroidery when there's so much nature to enjoy. I watch birds on the porch when I can when crocheting and lately, finishing up my last butterfly. Son came around. left the story of my woe at the CS a few minutes ago. I have some real problems going on after a fall. I send up prayers of thanks for every day we still have on earth after yesterday's harsh fall.

Love yas!

becki

 

[freedombecki]

I cart mystuff with me everywhere, and very seldom work on it.

Carted it to the pow wow, didn't touch it, lol.

Little by little does the trick!

I sat in the car and crocheted a whole row around the above rug for my sister's best friend. It's really comforting to work on something for someone who's been a sister's best friend for 45 years while I lived in another state. She was in good hands, and she knows that's what I think.

 

[Mr. H.]

Just a quick fly-by to catch up on the quilting gossip.

Carry on, ladies.

Keep up the good works.

 

[koshergrl]

Well my landlord/homeowner is wanting to crawl all over my house, which makes me over the top p.o'ed....I invited a walk through just this fall, and asked them to repair some things (little things, thought h dishwasher finally gave up the ghost altogether and that isn't fixed yet)...then they had a realtor do a walk through (no plans to sell, oh no! Just a routine thing...my EYE!) and then some electrician contractor dude who was an asshole...THEN they had someone come look at the roof and they were supposed to do some work on the roof (moss removal) but cancelled at the last minute....this is all since the end of November mind you.

So now the OWNER is making a special trip from wherever it is she lives because she wants to personally walk through my freaking house..sometime between last Thursday and a week from now. WTH? Triggered a massive panic attack (sometimes, I've just had enough) and then my bedroom door got jammed Friday night, when I was in my buttonless nightgown (missing front buttons) and no shoes...and my house was an absolute disgusting mess because I'VE BEEN FREAKING SICK ALL WINTER and things are in a deplorable state...and my room is arguably the worst of the lot..though the rest of the house is pretty bad (correction...WAS..guess what I've been doing for a week) and I had the property manager and his handyman crawling through my bedroom window...

omg it was a nightmare. I wanted to die and consume massive quantities of xanax (which of course I didn't have until MONDAY)

I think it's the first time I've taken xanax in a year or so.

Anyway I let the managers know that I'm about sick to death of this crap. I get that they can do walk throughs and all that, but I work, and I have dogs, and I have to be here...and that means i have to take work off and it's getting to be a real pain in the freaking ass. I pay primo dollar for rent (in this locale) and for that amount of money I expect them to show me some courtesy, and not treat me like I'm a felon that they're doing a huge favor for by allowing me to pay them a shitload of money for the privilege of having them crawl all over my house whenever they feel the urge.

I've lived here 3 years and we've never had to replace a window, patch a hole, change the locks (though their locks are and have been SHIT from the beginning). We haven't had to replace faucets or torn holes in the flooring..and our garage is the cleanest spot in the home!

Anyway. Grrrrrrr....

Oh and i finished the primary pieces of the mermaid outfit!

I will make a sea themed headband as well, with either a shell or sea anenome decoration but I have to find one first..and I want to find a magical shell pattern so I can place it between the halter strings of the bikini top..that may or may not happen....

 

[koshergrl]

Yeah my walls and baseboards are due for a scrub down. That's a saint bernard thing. Twice a year whether it needs it or not (it always needs it lol).

 

[koshergrl]

And get this, becki...I FOUND MY CAMERA! Guess where? UNDER MY DAUGHTER'S MATTRESS! She swore I had it last, I swore she did...GUESS who was right, lol.

We rearranged her room (that scarred up chest of drawers is hers,she hates it so now it's in my room) and lifted the mattress to get the bedskirt on there and there the camera was!

 

[koshergrl]

I have no idea why she put it there, there was absolutely nothing questionable on it (she's not like that). She as undoubtedly hiding it from me so that she could use it at will, then forgot.

 

[freedombecki]

Quilt # 8 for 2014: Northwest Green Medallion Quilt

 

[freedombecki]

3 more scans for NW Green Mediallion quilt that measures ~=42x45"

 

[freedombecki]

Well my landlord/homeowner is wanting to crawl all over my house, which makes me over the top p.o'ed....I invited a walk through just this fall, and asked them to repair some things (little things, thought h dishwasher finally gave up the ghost altogether and that isn't fixed yet)...then they had a realtor do a walk through (no plans to sell, oh no! Just a routine thing...my EYE!) and then some electrician contractor dude who was an asshole...THEN they had someone come look at the roof and they were supposed to do some work on the roof (moss removal) but cancelled at the last minute....this is all since the end of November mind you.

So now the OWNER is making a special trip from wherever it is she lives because she wants to personally walk through my freaking house..sometime between last Thursday and a week from now. WTH? Triggered a massive panic attack (sometimes, I've just had enough) and then my bedroom door got jammed Friday night, when I was in my buttonless nightgown (missing front buttons) and no shoes...and my house was an absolute disgusting mess because I'VE BEEN FREAKING SICK ALL WINTER and things are in a deplorable state...and my room is arguably the worst of the lot..though the rest of the house is pretty bad (correction...WAS..guess what I've been doing for a week) and I had the property manager and his handyman crawling through my bedroom window...

omg it was a nightmare. I wanted to die and consume massive quantities of xanax (which of course I didn't have until MONDAY)

I think it's the first time I've taken xanax in a year or so.

Anyway I let the managers know that I'm about sick to death of this crap. I get that they can do walk throughs and all that, but I work, and I have dogs, and I have to be here...and that means i have to take work off and it's getting to be a real pain in the freaking ass. I pay primo dollar for rent (in this locale) and for that amount of money I expect them to show me some courtesy, and not treat me like I'm a felon that they're doing a huge favor for by allowing me to pay them a shitload of money for the privilege of having them crawl all over my house whenever they feel the urge.

I've lived here 3 years and we've never had to replace a window, patch a hole, change the locks (though their locks are and have been SHIT from the beginning). We haven't had to replace faucets or torn holes in the flooring..and our garage is the cleanest spot in the home!

Anyway. Grrrrrrr....

Oh and i finished the primary pieces of the mermaid outfit!

I will make a sea themed headband as well, with either a shell or sea anenome decoration but I have to find one first..and I want to find a magical shell pattern so I can place it between the halter strings of the bikini top..that may or may not happen....

That's beautiful, koshergrl. Best wishes on the housing. Sending up a little prayer that things work out for your betterment.

 

[freedombecki]

We took my 8 little quilts from March up to the Charity Bees meeting today. All the girls were there. What angels they are. They were making senior support pillows from everybody's old fabric scraps. What a happy day they were having.

Also went to Walgreen's to purchase preventative vitamins--Heart Specialist, D3, Vitamin C for immunity, and cranberry juice. It really helps out the kidneys when they become inflamed, so it is said.

It's evening here, and we have pondscum on the pond due to all the rains, prolly. We had it the one other wet year we had. It seems to go away in the summer. I'm not sure which insect, bird, or fish rids the pond of it, but it does go away. We've had cool air sustained this year. That is not quite like any year we've lived here. At least, it's not freezing, for which I gratefully think God for letting me live back here in this wonderland of birds. Oh, duh. I forgot birdseed. Between the squirrels and the birds, they ate a hundred pounds of seeds in less than 2 weeks, and it's been something else. I'm growing to love the bossy red Cardinals with their me-first-up-yours attitude, hahahahaha!

Just thank God when they marry, they marry each other.

 

[koshergrl]

Well I made (it's not quite finished needs ties or elastic in back) the mermaid outfit coronet...it's like a crocheted wonderwoman coronet with a starfish instead of whatever jewel wonderwoman has (if she evenn has a jewel)

Then between doing for kids and taking pics, i worked all day on a stupid seashell conch thing and I never have figured it out. It's starting to tick me off like the stupid daisy granny square where the math was off. C'MON, YOU'RE COUNTING STITCHES! Get it right, for pete's said. That's why we BUY those stupid patterns!!!!!

Anyway, that's my rant. Kids are doing great, grandbabies are beautiful...calling the baby "Little Brother" which is a pretty good name. oh my goodness he's cute! We made him model the mermaid outfit, looks pretty good to me! Might have to adjust the bikini top, lol... the baby is 8 months and he's only 6 weeks...

Dogs are going okay, and now it's time for bed for me. Klaus needs steroids but i don't dare until we get rid of the extra dogs in teh house...poor snoop is sort of being quarantined BUT in good news, my son is finally okay with me getting him neutered! Should make like at least a little easier....

Love to all and to all a good night.