May 8, 2022
Ken’s birthday reminds me of seeding time on the farm as well as the Elrose High School Grad. I’m sure on more than one occasion Ken’s birthday has coincided with one or both of those events. This year he will be sharing his birthday with Mother’s Day celebrations.
If I’m trying to find a link between the card and Ken I guess I can say that Ken is a man of few words and will always get to the point in a conversation.
It turns out that April showers (the Umbrella last month) DO bring May flowers.
This was a quick project but it needed to be if it was going to arrive on time. I was able to dip into my colour-coordinated bins of squares so I didn’t need to do much cutting. Aside from a few mis-steps attaching the stems it could easily have been done in a day.
The quilting isn’t fancy but adequate. I want to work more on getting the backgrounds (in this case the sky) in the same tone but not all the same fabric. There is always something to work on.
May 1, 2022
No rhyme nor reason as to why I picked this card for Barb. There are only a few unmade blocks in my Splendid Sampler book and I thought this one was pretty. Of course I changed the colours from red, white and blue to simply blues. You may notice that the blues are some of the same fabrics that are in my mystery quilt.
I haven’t seen Barb since before the pandemic. I must correct that soon.
April 21, 2022
It is a good thing I wasn’t starting from scratch with this card or it would never have got into the mail with half a chance that it would arrive on time. There were 40 ends to knot and bury from all those quilting lines.
It isn’t quite summer yet but we are headed in the right direction.