SUNDAY #4 OF JANUARY 2021

The day started out cloudy--but now we have lovely blue skies and little wispy white clouds here and there !!!! and it looks like a nice little breeze out there as the branches on the pine tree is waving at me!!

Well--I think that the project that has taken up 90% of my sewing time this January is mainly finished--

I have showed you parts of it as we have went along this month--

the star blocks and the linen blocks--

but I have not really showed you the pillow case blocks--

This is my center block--it is the bottom part of a pillow case my Mother made years ago-She embroidered the lady--and all the rest of the work on it--and she had crocheted the dress part--then remember a few year back I told about sewing the skirt part to the pillow case--well--would you believe when I went to cut this piece for the block--I discovered I had stitched the dress on backwards--so we got that turned around and restitched on--!!!!  the bottom part of the block is some lace edging from another pillow case and later just before sewing all the blocks together--I decided it really needed something in the top to pull the block together--and that is a piece of hand crocheted edging that my Granny did on my father's side!

this next one-

is at the very top of the quilt and is one I embroidered at least 8 years ago--or so I believe--and again the bottom row on this is the rest of the hand crocheted lace that my Granny did --probably in the 60's or 70's -- and it could of even been before that????

This one caused a bit of a challenge cause it was wider than the 6 inches of the blocks--so I worked it out so it would be on the bottom row and hang over the border--this is a fine crochet of a butterfly and the letter 'D'--and was given to me a few years ago by a dear friend and was something her husbands grandmother had made--so who knows how old it is????

and then I had this one--

I do not know anything about this one--it was just a thrift store or rummage sale find--again long time ago--

It was kinda neat how the design of this layout for the pattern fit all these pillowcases--so I was able to just 'slip' them right into place--

And here is the quilt in it's full disclosure!!

Are the trumpets playing???

This photo does not really show the quilt all that well--I am in need of a new camera--that's next on my shopping list!!!  There is a couple blocks that I feel might need some more work/details on them--then again it might make the quilt too busy?????   and I don't have any idea if I should put another border on it or not--and what to use in fabric as far as a design---so for now it will just hang on the wall and we will see if it 'speaks' to me!!!!

OH--someone asked me how I could cut up the pillow cases and old hankies and tea towels and I said--it's simple--this way I can enjoy them--this apartment is too small to have alot out--so they have been in a zip lock bag under the bed for a long time--now at least they can 'breathe' and I can enjoy!!!

And here is the first 2 blocks of my weekly block challenge--

And here is where I am on the little truck for slow stitching Sunday--

we got some front end finished and a tire on it !!!!

TAKE CARE--KEEP BEING CREATIVE--AND JUST BREATHE--

AND KNOW THAT I HERE SENDING YOU 'HUGS'-

LUV, DI

AND Bernie sure has made the news this week!!!!!