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Monday, July 28, 2025

I love it!

I finished the quilt top I was making with my Blackbird Designs fabric. I used Ella's Linen Closet (my absolute favorite), Madeira, Meadow, Blueberry Crumb Cake, Chelsea Boutique, and Nell's Flower Shop. You might recognize some Jan Patek, Robin Pandolph, and Jo Morton too.

I love love love how it turned out. It's going to be fun to quilt and sleep under. I'm making this to go on my bed to replace the quilt that has been on it since 2002. It will have cotton batting and a great vintage blue print backing that I think came from a Thimbleberries Christmas line. (Gotta use up those Thimbleberries).

And speaking of using up things. . . no, I didn't use up all my Blackbird Scraps. There were just some that didn't fit into the theme.

Like this yardage from Beach House and At Water's Edge. Both lovely fabrics but I'll have to use them for something else.

Along with a 3 yd. piece of the Madeira line in the red colorway and 2 1/2 yds. of Meadow in a blue colorway that just didn't fit in with the other pieces I had chosen.

Here is the quilt with the flying geese going East. I just like them all going North the best.

The pattern called for a mixture of directions for the flying geese but I didn't like it.

It just looked all jumbled up.

I prefer the North point configuration. The pattern is called "Northbound" by Mary Fons.

We have had such lovely (although dry) skies lately.

I got up "at dawn's early light" the other morning and the hibiscus was delightfully blooming.

I love how nature blooms all summer long. Each flower has it's time to stand out and sparkle. How dynamic but sad it would be if everything bloomed at once and then it was over.

I made a pie with whole wheat crust from dried apples. I rehydrated the apples but I forgot how much apples expand when they cook. They raised so high the crust broke away around the outside. It was very tasty.