Pin It Weekly #181

Happy Weekly! Know who's pinning what?

Rhonda Hedrick is pinning pretty teacups and cookies. Isn't that a perfect combination? Let's have a tea party!

Arpie Makdessian is pinning coussins (pillows) and hand fans.

Anita Henry's pins are all about fashion. Want to know how to dress? This is the place to go. Anita and about 45 others have 50 boards about fashion. 

It's easy to get lost in there and look at the pictures for a while, but I'll let you do that on your own. I warned you though.

Have a great rest of the week and try not to contain yourself on Pinterest!

Monday, Monday / So good to me...

"Solicitude"--finished last week

Woohoo! Back at work and all went well. Returned home and played in the studio for a couple of hours. Rich cooked. After supper I graded (some) papers. I've spent the last couple of hours visiting a blogs. What more can a quilter ask for? 


If I haven't visited you recently, I'm sorry. I have been trying, but now there are so many great blogs that I'm struggling to keep up. If you have a system, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you manage to keep up with reading and responding to all of the bloggers you've come to know. 

I'm shutting my brain down for tonight, but goodness I had a fantastic day. If you need some interesting quilt reading, visit any of these linky parties that I joined over the weekend. You will not be disappointed, except that you can't visit everyone who linked up. I know this because I've tried.

Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts

My Quilt Infatuation

Off the Wall Fridays at Creations Quilts Art Whatever

Faith and Fabric Design for TGIFF

Whoop Whoop Friday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Fabric Frenzy Friday for Fort Worth Fabric Studio

NOTE: Song lyrics from "Monday Monday"
 by The Mamas and The Papas

Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Puritans

Yes, sure. Puritans deserve a moment. Besides I've been grading papers about the Puritans and The Scarlet Letter. Thank goodness that is over with, but it meant missing Sunday Quilt Inspiration. I'm trying to catch up before too many people realize it! 

I bet you thought it would be difficult to find some pins for this motif. I did have to search under both Puritans and The Scarlet Letter. Pinterest has mostly embroidered samplers or sampler quilts. But I also found a few quilts that could easily have served the Puritans' needs and aesthetics.

And so now, the papers are graded, Sunday Quilt Inspiration is posted (sorry for the tardy) and I get to go sew, unless the power goes out and, considering the weather, that likely will happen. No matter, I will sew until it does! Have a great week, everyone. 

Grisdela Beginnings with a Periwinkle Finish

I have been working on a different kind of quilt lately. I haven't said much, because well, what if it didn't work out, you know? lol I hate to admit defeat. While in Houston I met Cindy Grisdela and purchased her book, "Artful Improv," which she signed. After reading it through a couple of times, I've moved on to rereading bits and pieces as I work. 

I decided to make a quilt in the manner of Cindy's art quilts. If you know me, though, you know that I can't just follow a pattern: I have to make it my own. 

So while this quilt  started out using a "Complementary Color Recipe," it finished a little differently. I still am not certain that I want to call it an art quilt, but I'm feeling pretty good about it anyway. 

I started with red, orange, and yellow solids and tossed in what was supposed to be just a bit of Kona Periwinkle. 

Periwinkle usurped the quilt somehow. My idea was that the Kona Bison would work with the hot colors and the Periwinkle would add a bit of sparkle. 

Oops on the periwinkle, but maybe not too much. I love the color, and it does a great job of breaking up the brown and adding asymmetrical lines that allowed for many quilting motifs.

Basically I used the lines as borders for each motif. At the beginning I was going to stick with circles, but that didn't last long. Ha! Once all of the bison sections were quilted, I changed my needle thread to a soft yellow and quilted diagonal lines that matched the one periwinkle line in each improv block. 

Putting on the binding was just as much fun, because when periwinkle takes over, it messes with all parts of the quilt. Check out the corners. 





Three of them have a little periwinkle trim. It is meant to look like the periwinkle dips in and out of the binding at will. Again, just taking over. 

This quilt is titled "Solicitude" because I still feel a little uneasiness about it, which is unusual for me. It's entirely possible that the uneasiness I'm feeling has nothing to do with the quilt itself, but I have no idea why I feel this way. I suppose I'll just go with it.

Linking up with:

Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts

My Quilt Infatuation

Off the Wall Fridays at Creations Quilts Art Whatever

Faith and Fabric Design for TGIFF

Whoop Whoop Friday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Fabric Frenzy Friday for Fort Worth Fabric Studio

Pin It Weekly #180

Happy Thanksgiving! I understand that not all of my readers celebrate Thanksgiving the way we do here in the U.S., I think that most of the world celebrates or gives thanks for their blessings. So I hope that it's appropriate to share a few Thanksgiving pins. Well, actually, I am sharing my typical Thanksgiving dinner menu with you via Pinterest pins.

Baked Turkey

Pork Roast

Green Bean Casserole

Sweet Potato Casserole

Carrot Souffle

Pecan Pie

Richard's parents and all of the children and grandies are coming for supper, and they generally bring along a dish. I expect salad and rolls. And while I posted Carrot Souffle, Adam is going to fix that dish using carrots from his garden. We'll be fixed up with more than enough to give thanks for, and I'm not talking about food. 

Happy Thanksgiving