I’m thinking this will become an album quilt, in the tradition of Baltimore albums, or really just an album quilt. One with different blocks. At the moment I’m going traditional, we shall see as time goes by.
Now come the little fiddly parts. I have some prints, most of the fabrics are solid. I like the way this looks.
Almost there, I have a lot of these little circles to sew down.
And it’s done! I have been using appliqué paper, I washed the block in warm water with some delicate soap. This is supposed to dissolve the paper. Well, it’s not entirely dissolved, it is softer now. Who knows, I may wash the whole top again before quilting. I love the paper method, but I want it gone before quilting.
What the back looks like. I am using silk thread, it breaks a lot, especially the section that rubs in the eye of the needle. I do like using it because really, it is invisible from the front, even from the back, it isn’t over powering. So I put up with breakage.
On the garden front, a few new lemons have showed up. I wonder how they will do in the heat of the summer. My Meyer lemon tree usually only produces in the cooler weather. I still have a few lemons on the tree as well as some that have dropped. So I’ll keep and eye on these to see if they survive beyond June. Right now we are having June gloom, so mornings are cool and overcast.
Waiting for the heat, my first tomatoes have started. I bought the plant over a month ago, I’m pretty sure it’s just a cherry variety. There are more flowers, hoping this one is healthy and bountiful.
Most of my hydrangeas died in the drought, I planted a new one last year and look! It’s blooming!! I have another old one that survived, right now it looks very healthy, but no flowers yet.
I hope you aren’t bored with my flowers, I just love them so much I can’t help but share.
Leah