Sparrow Wall Hanging

As you might know, I am a fan of Jenny over at Elefantz.  She makes lovely embroidery patterns.  They are simple yet profound and I admire them a lot.

Now look what I made:

Jenny offered this Sparrow quote embroidery for free on her Craftsy page.  (These are the lyrics of a hymn from my childhood.)

So I followed her tutorial on how to add fabric to your embroideries. ( You can find it under tutorials on her home page at Elefantz.)

Every time I look at it I have to hum the song....I can hardly wait to see how it will look on my mother's wall.... She may even sing out loud...I hope so.

New Delightful Stars Blocks

Here are the new blocks from the QAL over at Mishkas Playground.

I know, great, huh?

The Lord's Prayer embroidery

Of course I can't stop starting something new and I love embroidery projects.  They are so portable, and with summer coming we will be on the road a bit more I think.

So I jumped in to the free Lord's Prayer embroidery project presented by Jenny over at Elephantz.  How wonderful does that look?

So I have been busy picking out my fabric...

I have the title embroidery ready to go...Oh, wait, this post has been sitting in the draft bin and now I have more...

I feel like the fabric is too dark or intense.  Maybe I will say the commitment has been made and I will go with this colour scheme.  What do you think?

Delightful Star Quilt Along progress

I am a bit behind on this one but I am really enjoying the block making.  I feel that I am really getting a bit better at accuracy....

This one is the latest and maybe my favourite so far....

And here is my design wall with them randomly laid out...

The pattern is available at the Quilting Gallery here.

Flying Geese Help

I love the look of flying geese but I almost always have trouble keeping them square.  So while I was trying for accuracy in the Delightful Star Quilt Along I discovered an easy system for getting some good results.

First I cut the triangles out as the chart suggested.
Then I sewed the first side triangle to the centre goose.

Then I got out a right triangle ruler and lined it up so the angled seam ran down a series of crossroads ...

Next I trimmed the narrow strip that was exposed so now the goose is square again. Then I sewed on the other side triangle...

Voila, perfect...

It seems pretty simple but the result was amazing...

I love it when it all comes together. This block is for the Delightful Star Quilt a long

Walking among the flowers

In the last couple of weeks, we traveled to Ontario to visit my sister.  What a great time we had.  The smoked fish was wonderful.  And we were entertained by Wendy's wonderful musical renditions.  She is very talented.

We walked in the nearby provincial park where Stephen Leacock is buried.  He is our most famous humour writer.

It was so peaceful even though it was a Saturday and you can't see it but Lake Simcoe is just past those trees in the background, lapping against the rocks.

Through this lovely gate and on to the trilliums blanketing the forest floor.  The trillium is the provincial flower of Ontario.

Another project from my Mom - Rainbows

This was the other project my Mom gifted me with.  I don't know why she stopped. She said she made a mistake and it needed to be ripped out.  I don't know it looks good to me.

The pattern came from a newspaper so it is years old (maybe 20).  But it is kind of kit - like in that it was all cut out and ready to go.

With a few minutes of sewing I had the three strip sets ready to go.