Blue Flowers

Some basic blue flower shapes.

I intend to embroider and embellish the heck out of these flowers. Love the handstitching.

It is raining so hard right now with 50 mph wind gusts - rather frightening, actually.  Our street is a river.  I'm thinking about shooting Noah a text - Raining like hell (sorry) all-get-out here. Toss the monkeys and armadillos o/b and pick us up on your way to Ararat. Love, C, J and LoLo

What do you think about the new Noah movie? I love a good disaster flick and Russell Crowe does make a mighty fine seafarer.  Speaking of Crowe, I  read all those Patrick O'Brien books a long, long time ago and when Master and Commander was being made into a movie I remember thinking - yikes! who knew that Russell Crowe was Capt. Jack Aubrey?  I reread, of course.  Don't judge me! I couldn't care less if an actor is a douche in real life, long as they look nice on screen (or in boats).

Speaking of movies,  I must be seeing The Grand Budapest Hotel, if only to watch Tilda Swinton as Madame D. in full-on old lady make-up.  Looks like my kind of movie, madcap and crazy.  I mean how can you pass up a movie with such scenes as prisoners carefully dividing up a delicious pastry with a throat-slitter.  --cds

Yellow Wednesday

Yeah, so it was a yellow sort of day.  This started out as four 9-patch blocks that I quartered and twisted and put back together again.

I have plans for this yellow background involving blue-ish batik flower appliqueing.  Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, in the Salt Lake City suburbs, six-year old Evie was having a bit of a tiff with her friend, the long-suffering Owen.  She apparently left this sticky-note message on the door for him:

 Oh, she's tough.  --cds

Baby Quilt

I am breezing through the unfinished project basket like nobody's business.  Here is another baby-size quilt all done.

These are crappy pictures, my apologies.  I took 'em with my phone outdoors in the really really bright sunshine and the colors are really off.  The background is straight-up white, but the backing is a cute duck pattern in beige.  It is machine-pieced and machine-appliqued, but I hand-quilted it because sometimes I just need to hand-quilt.

I had no particular baby in mind when I started this (a number of years ago), I just had a collection of very cute repro-vintage baby fabrics.  So, how about this.  I will give this quilt to the first family member who has a baby in the next nine months.  Not a baby puppy.  A real baby.  Okay?  So, get ready, get set, GO!  NO!!!  Wait, wait, WAIT!!!  At least let me sign off first.  Sheesh.  Okay, go.
xo--Claudia