tree hugger quilt contemplation

When I can't actively make quilts...I plan them...guess I'll have to pull a Methuselah to get them all done!

Tree hugger save the everything reduce that carbon foot print quilt…whew what a LONG name!

 

Center block is completed and is about 14 inches square…the pattern for the pine trees is FREE from:http://www.quilterscache.com/T/ThePinesBlock.html the center block will be sashed with something lime/Kermit the frog tummy…thinking 3.2 inch width.

The wide border is this FABULOUS save the whale, tree hugger, no nukes fabric from Kris to the K…it is SOOOOOOOOO neato I just had to throw a quilt idea together for it! The base color of the fabric is light ish turquoise with bright purples and green…the corner blocks will be paper pieced wonky houses in colors to go with this eye burning carbon foot print shrinking pile of giggle-ee-tude…in other words…haven’t decided yet! Wonky house pattern found FREE at: http://www.forestquilting.com/paperpiecing_free/paperpiecing_free_p...

Another 3.2 width border of same or similar green border

Hmmm…perhaps a border of rainbow stripe OR I’ll make my own rainbow out of 2.5 by hmmm…6.5 inch strips…can you ever have too much rainbow?!? Corner blocks for the rainbow border?!? Small 6.5 inch paper pieced trees matching the center block…not totally matching of course since I made the center a few years ago.

Finish it all up with a 3.5 width green border (Good thing I have lots of Lime greens!)…with the ever popular rainbow prairie points in lieu of a binding…another eye burning spectacular yet to made but basically thought through quilted loveliness…will probably keep this one since it has the first paper pieced blocks I’ve ever made and the super special fabric from my friend!

Contemplated 5-23-2012

A quilt named Applebee's

A brain storm of a quilt called Applebee’s

Center block is already made…

note: the border around it is not asymmetrical…the photo editor just kind of cropped it that way… the middle block is called Apple-Bees for my first date with my now husband…yup Applebee’s at Ridgedale Mall and Jazmin was our chaperone. Even though I really don’t care for red I will probably keep this quilt if I ever make it since the middle block has meaning.  The red borders will be some sort of red apple fabric.

The blue border will be a blue batik to go with the blue in the center block. Unfortunately I don’t know the name of the blue in the block or have any more as I got it in a swap, it’s a wonderful dappled blue with metallic gold sprinkled in…

the black and yellow borders will be oh I’m thinking 3.5 inch squares and either Amish solids or some fabulous batiks that are almost solid.

Of course the whole quilt will be finished up with yellow and black prairie points!

The corner blocks I think I’ll paper pieced bees and apples …I just need to locate the paper piece patterns I used…I made the center block over a year ago…I’m a touch flighty after I accomplish something and at the time the block itself was the accomplishment…who would think that far into the future to make a quilt out of a quilt block?!? Only thing is the apple is slightly larger than the bee sooooo I guess I’ll add borders to the bee till it’s the same size as the apple so the wide borders are the same width…I’m odd like that…

Okey Dokey so the apple paper pieced pattern can be found at: http://fandominstitches.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/pattern_ofenjen_apple.pdf

And here’s the sweet honey bee pattern: http://piecebynumber.com/honeybee.htm

The Applebee’Z quilt contemplated 5/18/2012

I figure If I purchase the border fabrics I'll HAVE to make the quilt! See there is a method to my obvious quilty madness!

 

Inner ‘water’ border 3.5 inch found this on Fabric.com (pretty sure I’m addicted to this site, it has everything I want…not gonna say need…I won’t die without fabric…but it certainly makes life more interesting all these fabulous colors! This is Michael Miller Paradise Reef Peaceful Water Blue, since I ordered 1 yard, the left overs will also be used for prairie points.

 

Inner frog border, 6.5 inches this is from Fabric.com…very fun just did a search for frogs and here it was! This is Elizabeth’s Studio On A Lark Frogs Allover Black…EEEEEEEEEEE…too cute… ordered a yard of this...as this is too stinking cute to make into prairie points the left overs will be saved for something else…I’m always planning to make something else…

 

Outer water border yet again from Fabric.com…searched for water and actually found fabric that looked like water! This is Andover’s Sea Waves Blue…this border will be 3.5 inches and left overs made into the prairie points for this quilt…Ordered 1 yard of this...I think 2 shades of water blue around the edge will be swimmingly fun…pardon the pun and the atrocious rhyming!

Outer 6.5 inch border (may make it wider this fabric is TOO cute!) found on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/KOALACaddie  long out-of-print fabric is "frogs in love" by Phillip De Leon for Alexander Henry Fabrics, 1996 see…too cute! Ordered 2 yards just to make sure…you can’t have too much frog fabric on hand…well can you have too much fabric ever?!?

In my search for frog fabric on Fabric.com I also found these fun frog squares, they call them labels…haven’t decided yet…but I may make corner squares in the wide borders with these in the middle of them the corners…can you ever have TOO many frogs on a frog quilt?!?  What’s neato is there will be one left over for the signature block for the back of the quilt! These appear to be about 3 inches square so I can log cabin around them to grow them to 6.5 inches square for the corner blocks…these are called: Andover's Frogs Labels Blue…ah Froggie goodness…just ordered a slab of it...a panel however large that is...hmmm...judging by the photo it's not massive...

frog quilt idea

Paper pieced dancing frogs in a round about quilt contemplation:

Paper piece frog pattern available at:http://www.paperpanache.com/free/guestpats/amobirdfrog.htm will be blowing up to 8.5 X 11 paper sized…so frogs will probably be about 8.5 inches square…frogs and their water backgrounds will be scrappy so no 2 are alike…no sashing…frog next to frog so the blue background can look like dappled blue water, I may use all different blues for the background to give the water more movement…I’m thinking embroidered or button eyes…depending on who will be receiving this quilt.

Inner border will be some water color…no idea if I can locate fabric that really looks like water, waves or droplets (wow that would be cool) inner border will be 3.5 inches in width

Inner green border will be something fun with frogs on it! Frog border will be 6.5 inches in width

Next blue border will be more of the water fabric…this border will also be 3.5 inches in width.

Outer green border I’m hoping to find water lily fabric…I had a scrap of it a couple years ago…only a scrap, got it in a swap…so I think water lily or perhaps some swamp, marsh fabric would be fun! This border will be 6.5 inches in width.

Finish this all off with water and frog prairie points…lovely unisexed green and blue! Probably a baby or lap quilt…as usual this is still in the contemplation stage…each paper pieced frog has 40 pieces total…this one may take me a while once I finally get it off the contemplation rack and into DO IT baggies of paper and fabric! Thought up May 14^th2012

a lil mother's day adventure

‘Our House’ block # 1

…purple Minky door…haven’t decided if I’ll be embroidering a door knob yet or adding lace curtains…depends how bored I get…used a wee piece of sock monkey fabric so someone would be peeking out of the window…figure I’ll put someone peeking out all the windows! I’d love to make a signature block with the lyrics to the song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young…that would be so cool…but bummer my printer is a laser printer and I don’t think I can cram treated fabric through it…Oh well…any who this block is 8.5X8.5 inches square…paper pieced by hand… House paper piece pattern located at: http://www.connectingthreads.com/patterns/House_Keepsake_Frame_Card... free! 5-13-12 see accomplished something on Mother’s day!

 

Tabitha found a super tiny freshly hatch painted turtle walking across a parking lot and brought him/her tome to set free…Olie Liv and I went for a walk in the grave yard where there’s a creek that flows into aswamp…the creek was much easier to get to than the swamp itself… you really can’t tell from the photosbut this little guy is about the size of a 50 cent piece…very wee but stinking adorable! When I put him in the water he looked around for a bit before starting down the creek in the right direction…too cute! 5-13-12

 

Down the hill where the creek was there was all sorts of broken statuary from the graves…rather sad thatloved ones would bring this and have it end up thrown down a hill…this was probably a lovely angel at one time, about a foot tall…

 

Olie found a circle of headstones broken and discarded…where are the people that these belong above? Sigh…Olie found this very sad…

 

Olivia on the other hand…all grins when her brother was driving her silly all the way home…she liked it when he would drive like a snake…back and forth…

gathering of baby shower stuffage

well, got both cards made...will have to wait till I have a supply of ink though when I printed they came out a bit streaky

Card for Cherish's baby shower...since I know shes' a she I could go with pink and girlieness!

card for Cassie's baby shower...she won't let us know who it is so I went with peas and carrots to match the quilt I'm making...

So both mommies will get massive quilts done up in sock monkey fabric...both will get a noisy lovie...I'm going to dig through the baby stuff I have to get matching bibs and burp cloths...I'll pick up sets of brushes and combs...each will get either a baby safe sock monkey or a baby safe Oonie...haven't decided yet...I don't know...is that enough baby giggle-ee-tude for an adequate shower gift?!? sigh...no idea...

a bit of gardening

Mind you I have no idea what some of these are...yeah I'm that kind of gardener...I go so far as to make sure the plants are where they may be happy...but who they are...well...

 

Alright I know this one is a massive funky mushroom eating at the dead stump in the yard...bigger than my hand...ooky

 

Honey suckle...:) still had the tag on it...HA...with a Hosta and copious weeds...with the cool Shamus Jaz found for me for mom's day...I need to paint his eyes he appears a bit blind

 

totally purple iris...well I know what some of the plants are...

 

Jazmin's Jack-in-the-pulpit...neato!

 

Oliver's daisy looking thing...one of the few things in his garden actually blooming

 

Oliver's purple leaved plant deal...um...yeah...kinda matches the dirt...

 

plants awaiting placement in the ground

 

the shade garden...bum-bum-bum (dramatic music) lots of hostas, some blood root no longer blooming, Dutchman's britches also done blooming and a wee bleeding heart contemplating life...and WEEDS for one and all

 

Short fern with a violet

 

one of Jazmin's many strawberries blooming...pay no attention to the creeping Charlie...he's just creeping

 

The tall fern...hmmm some crane's bill ah creeping Charlie and weeds caused by the bird feeder that has since been moved...weeds...sigh

 

can almost smell these too yummy...hey look...more creeping Charlie!