Spring Sings to Me

SWAPS

I have been dancing and singing the last couple of days. Some lovely squishies and boxes arriving. The boxes I can't share yet. This beautiful pincushion is from Dorothy is my first happy dance - Charming Girls Swap. It is large but perfect for our shop sewing groups to use in the center of the table - a nice Spring decoration. And a bundle of wool for me to play with. Thank you Dot.

And then this lovely came from 'Q' - Quanita from Austalia. I believe this is a pattern from Marcia Hohn's 'Quilter's Cache' site? She sent me a very personal letter. I just love it and it means even more to me that this is from someone learning. Remember we all started at sometime - oh I should show my first project. LOL! The colors are just what I need for a pick-me up with this slow to arrive spring here and it is a pattern I have used in the past. But I am going to use this for my Easter center piece as it is too pretty to use under a messy pan. Thank you 'Q'.

EVENT REMINDERS

Hands2Help - signup April 10th-13th
SantaSack - signup deadline April 30th
Season Swap - signup deadline April 15th
Zippy Purse Swap - signup deadline April 12th

MAY FOR ME

Are you gals thinking about projects yet? Are you putting things together?

I'll admit it - this is how I work. Not very pleasant to look at. How do I find things? Is everything there? Is this how I want to be ready for May For Me?

Now doesn't this look better? Doesn't it beckon you to dip into that basket and work on a project? I've added a vest pattern I want to make with some assemblance of fabric possibilities and a wallhanging pattern is in there - still need to pull those fabrics. Hmm, I will need to find a bigger basket and maybe put it on my little hearth side stool. Pretty is more inviting than messy.

SQUARED UP

I played with a few different alternating blocks for my other scrappy 9-patch and I just had to go with the 'light' version of the 9-patch. Besides you girls freak when I mention HST's (half square triangles) - but I do love them. That little tub holds my trimmings - yes, I trim all those bits as all those tinies together really throw your total work off kilter.

I'll skip right to the flimsy photo as there are a lot of photos on this post already. I will be adding a 3.5" muslin border and then a scrappy 9-patch border. Yes, I have that many 2" squares! My SIL asked me how many were in this so far - she had to ask. I just sew pedal to the metal - I don't count! This is a real legacy quilt as there are bits of fabric from probably every project I've done, some of my Mom's , some of our class ladies, and some from my cyber-friends. Look closely, do you see something of yours?

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

"The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree--
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me."
- Sara Teasdale, April

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon