If I Fall

Books

Author: Ella Harper

I was back on my Kindle for this one. The story revolves around four friends and follows them from their University days to fifteen years later. Lives have changed, marriages have been made but they all still remain friends. The interest for me was the friends were both male and female; so often these “friend” stories involve only women.

The book is set out in short chapters each revolving around one of the four characters; I have to say that shortly into the story I didn’t particularly like the short glimpses we got of each character. There was enough drama surrounding the friends to keep it interesting.

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Happy Birthday Jody

Cards

May 14, 2018

Birds in the Corner

I needed more inspiration for my cards this month so I delved into the blocks on my Quilter’s Block-A-Day Calendar. Each date on the calendar is a different block and the sizes vary from 6″ to 12″; this block is 6″.

I recently purchased a quilting book with patterns for use with your walking foot and I used two different patterns from the book to quilt the card.

 

Live Laugh Love #1

Quilting

Quite awhile ago Elizabeth asked if I would make her something with a specific fabric that she had found. Of course it was a fabric that was absolutely right for her – Live Laugh Love with jars of daisies!

I ordered the fabric online and, because I wasn’t sure what I’d be making, I ordered several yards. Once it arrived and I began planning the table runner I was going to make I realized I needed a coordinating fabric – daisies of course ordered from the same company.

I wanted the Live Laugh Love sentiment to show no matter which side of the table you were on so I split it down the middle, added the daisies in the middle and sewed it up with the writing going in opposite directions.

I had some fabric in my stash that seemed the perfect colour to match the jars of daisies but there wasn’t enough of it for backing so I decided it would be my binding. I had some other turquoise fabric that would work, but the binding colour wouldn’t be right when put right up against it. So I added a couple of daisy borders and voila!

I did some very simple straight-line quilting but, following my free-motion class, I did a few circles around the heads of the daisies.

There is lots more fabric left so this particular project has been called Live Laugh Love #1 – there will be more to follow.

 

Happy Mother’s Day

Cards

May 13, 2018

Since my May challenge is for The Splendid Sampler I picked two blocks from the series for a couple of Mother’s Day cards.

 

Juggling, in my mind, was quite suitable for Christy. With Dylan and Taylor in different out-of-school activities, with a new dog in the house, and a long commute everyday for work I’m sure at times she feels like she’s juggling her load.

 

 

 

 

I picked Centered for Kathryn. Her house revolves around sports – either Dave’s, or her boys. She also centres her activities around her shifts but I know her thoughts are centred on home.

Elizabeth wanted me to make something from a fabric line she found so I finished a table runner as her Mother’s Day card. She has a number of items in her home with the Live Laugh Love sentiments – something she is very good at.