July 5, 2021

Although I followed the idea of the pattern for this block I felt that with bees in the corners there should be flowers in the centre. I made the card on Texada; I’ve not done much quilting on the machine I have over there but I came up with a setting that works for a very simple stitch.

I hope there are only flowers in Christy’s day – no bees allowed!

July 2, 2021

I admit I hand-picked this card pattern. I wanted to take it to Texada to stitch but so many of the tickets I pulled involved a lot of appliqué so I flipped through my book until I found something that was just pieced.

I love pinwheels so a double pinwheel was a bonus.

I just did the math and it can’t possibly be right. Elizabeth is 40?

It is always fun to make a trio of cards for three birthdays on the same day – Tynan, Ian, and Josh.

The name of this particular block is perfect. Although my sewing room is often in chaos it is my happy place regardless of the mess.

This is the card I planned to make last month when I got the date of the birthday mixed up with the page of the book the pattern was on.

This card is a bit dark due to the fabrics I picked. Fortunately Jenny’s birthday is on the longest day of the year (and she lives in the North) so there will be lots of daylight to offset the darkness.