Gratitude and Glimmers #112

Welcome to my post of glimmers (of joy and wonder) and gratitude for the month of October. You can find links to more posts like this one at LeeAnna's blog, Not Afraid of Color.

A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.

--Unknown

Sorry that this is a few days late!

1.  I like what I think will be the cover of one of two upcoming new patterns.

I just need to figure out yardage for the baby size; I have it mocked up in EQ8.

2. I love hearing birds pitter-patter or scurry across the roof of my sewing room. I love hearing robins softly cluck-cooing to each other. I do not know, but I like to think they've come from further north and are pausing here before crossing Lake Erie on their way south for the winter.  I love seeing them coming zooming in from one of the trees in our yard straight at the window to land on the roof just over my head.

Floral Galaxy

It took me a little longer to get this quilted than originally anticipated but she is done and I am so very happy that these incredibly gorgeous, floaty fabrics have grown up into this quilt.

Part of the reason for the slower finish is that I elected, or rather the quilt requested, some custom quilting. The other reason was in part Zora and in part some unplanned sewing.

Quarter Square Triangles With Directional Fabric

One of the purposes of writing this blog is to keep a record of how I did certain things in various quilts over the years. When I inadvertently got the cakestands Liberty of London fabric all going the right way when making Quarter Square Triangle units (QST) I decided, for future reference, to figure out exactly how I'd done it, along with how to get the star points in those QSTs also going the correct way.

Here is how I did it.

Gratitude and Glimmers #111

Welcome to my post of glimmers (of joy and wonder) and gratitude for the month of September. You can find links to more posts like this one at LeeAnna's blog, Not Afraid of Color.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed. 

--Art Wolfe

Rather an apt quote for this month's gratitude post.

1.  What a glimmer this was!

This wee moth was having a daytime snooze in one of my mandevilla vine flowers. Wouldn't you love to be tiny enough to have a nap there?!

Biblioasis

Biblio was the name that kept coming to me, for obvious reasons, as I worked on this quilt. Then I remembered the name of a really good bookstore in Windsor, independent of course, and it just kept coming back to me, so that is what I have named my quilt, but the perfect name, Biblioasis, is the store's.

Of course I had to photograph it in my very own Kingsville Public Library, resting on a book trolley, not currently in use! The statue in the background is of Jack Miner, aka Wild Goose Jack, an avid bird conservationist who lived on land just north of the town. Yes, that is a Canada goose beside him.

A Couple of Flimsies

Just a quick post today to update you on the latest project. Here is the flimsy for my Bookish quilt.

I am so pleased! I got this picture first thing this morning before any real wind came up, often a problem around here. It took me quite a while to shuffle the blocks around to try to evenly distribute colours and patterns!

Holiday Star

A little over six weeks from the first test block I made, back on July 18, and I have a finish! Holiday Star is done, and the pattern should be ready within a few weeks. 

It's pretty dramatic!