Flowers are everywhere this week...on my fabrics and in my garden.....some of the garden ones are growing so wildly due to all the rain and sunshine that ive had to cut them back a bit, like the mallow in the basket above.....
..............i finished quite a lot of projects recently which means its time to start some more ;).....i got out lots of delicious fabrics from my stash and began cutting out some speedy machine pieced stars....the fabric above is from the gorgeous strawberry biscuit collection by elea lutz...............
..............and below some of the beautiful flower sugar from lecien.......i do love some flower sugar in my quilts :) ................the cheater prints from both ranges make great centre squares for the stars, i think.......
...............i have been sewing happily, ignoring the rain and cutting and pinning very carefully so my seams nest nicely.......it took me a while to get used to rotary cutting, and machine piecing after a lifetime of english paper piecing but now i love both techniques in different ways......
.................one more fabric shot because it looks so pretty..............
................after id made the small-ish star block below i decided to try making a big one, maybe as a mini quilt for the sewing room wall.............
..................it took a while to work out the proportions but here is a peek at the larger one......
.............and then i needed to order some more fabric to make some more because i really liked the big version............more of this summer stars quilt coming soon............below is the birthday weekend garden, with bunting hung up by my elder daughter :).........it was my youngest daughters birthday the same weekend and we often celebrate it together which is lovely......and the sun shone for us that day too......
...............below is miss daisy and miss molly dog, always together as they are the best of friends....
...............some peaceful garden moments with a quilt and a crochet pillow in a flowery spot.....
...........a nice cup of tea and some time to sit and dream...........
.............a new garden crate filled with quilty produce this time.......
...................and those pretty mallow flowers again......love this plant and its abundance of blooms...........
..............thank you dear readers for all your kind birthday wishes on my last post, and i am glad you liked seeing the pictures of my studio.........i will show some pictures of my sewing room soon, too....when the fabric is tidied up a bit ;)........wishing you a very happy crafty week with plenty of flowers and sunshine to enjoy.............back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
