Hardly seems possible that it's May already. We picked all of the youngest daughter's stuff from University of Illinois this weekend. She still has a couple of finals but wanted to get her stuff out so didn't have to mess with the whole rush that was there when we moved her in. It was unbelievably pleasant!!
I did work in the car and here's what I got done on the six hour round trip drive: One diamond hexie. Man, those things take a long time to sew by hand. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong, I dunno. Now mind you all the hexies were on their little templates and basted before the trip. I just had to sew the cute little things together. Yep, this is what six hours will get ya :)
And I did finish putting the Garden Party top together, such a simple quilt, I really like the spring colors. I love green, blue and purple together. All you need is a jelly roll and some fabric for the sashing and this is what you get. I have a new pantograph that I want to try on this one.
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I finished up Venetian Dream - I used a new pantograph on this one too. I like the interlocking squares on this one.
And on the frame, it was a dreary day in Chicagoland, cool and rainy. So I quilted rainbows on Anna's Rainbow quilt, now that felt better :) All in all not a bad quilty week.
And Baby Smiles needs some hooded towels so we made three. So easy to make, I use a regular bath towel and a hand towel. One hand towel can actually make two hooded towels. I cut a square 12-14 inches, then cut that in half on the diagonal. Add something cute to the triangle. I used fusible and a blanket stitch. Just round the corners of the towel and the hand towel triangle, cut off the ends of the bath towel if they are bigger than 1/4 inch. I sew the triangle to the bath towel with 1/8 generous seams. Then just add some binding and you've got an adorable hooded towels.
