PILLOW SHAMS

I got the pillow shams done for the people that bought the Floral Trails quilt. I used one of the new feet I bought the other day, the Edge Stitch foot, for the 'stitch-in-the-ditch' quilting.  

I'll be putting it all into the post tomorrow.

 

Good-bye quilt, live long and prosper.

NEW SALE

 Someone bought the Floral Trails quilt from Etsy.  They requested I make pillow shams to go with it.  I agreed to do that.  But I had to find the leftovers from the quilt.  I was pretty sure I still had them.  I remember trying to sell them on Instagram, but where were they now?

I looked and looked again.  After about 45 minutes I found them!  I cut out a bunch of strips to make 4-patches.  I need to make 63 4-patches for each sham.  My goodness, what was I thinking?

I made a little headway today.  Still more to go.

PILLOWCASE

We did our regular Sunday morning grocery shopping but with Jeffery.  

Then we took the dogs for a walk in Lincoln Park.

I was thrilled to get close enough to this little Chestnut-backed Chickadee.  There's a tree with a big with a hole in it that holds water.  The birds come to drink from it.

 Darrell and Jeffery went for a bike ride on Alki.  When they came back, Jeffery and I made a pillowcase from the Seahawk's fabric he had picked out yesterday.

SKYLER COMES TO VISIT

We traded Quentin for Skyler today.  On the way back home we stopped at Joann's Fabrics where Skyler picked some sparkly unicorn fabric for her pillowcase. 

While she and Darrell when biking around Alki, I made her pillowcase for her.

Jelly enjoyed the nice summer day.

FIRST THURSDAY

Granddaughter Hailey (10, soon to be 11 in a few weeks) is staying with us for a few days during her spring break from school.

I cut the fabrics and she sewed them together to make this cute pillowcase.  This is the first time she used a sewing machine.  Good job!

I wanted something simple to work on so I pulled out the neglected Alphabet quilt blocks.  I see I had left a note that I was waiting for Kona Coral color to show up last year to use on the J block.  So, I got that out and made these blocks.

This being the first Thursday of the Month, we took Hailey downtown to the Art Walk.  First, was dinner at the Cuban restaurant, Cafe Con Leche on First Ave S.

Hailey has never been to an art walk.  I think she enjoyed it.  There was some very interesting art and people to see.  The building that used to house Elliott Bay Books was having a big party for First Thursday with art and performance art and just odd people walking about.

Hailey took advantage of an exhibit that let people take their pictures using various props.

We saw some interesting art.  I didn't think about taking pictures until late in the walk.

The glass circles on the sidewalk