Applique in May – Eye Candy

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Here are a few close up pictures from Sally's quilt and some of my observations. The pictures of the entire quilt had too many shadows from the trees over the deck to I'm taking it to the store today and will spread it out there. It's the only place I have enough open floor space without moving furniture and that doesn't sound like fun.

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Most of the triangles surrounding the blocks are from this fabric. Luckily in this triangle only one of the print flowers has fallen away giving us a good look at the fabric.

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This shows the two red prints used in the triangles and the double pink print used in the sashing and flowers. I'll have to go back and see if there's a pattern to the use of the red prints or if it looks like she ran out of the flower print and had to some up with a substitute.

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All of the cheddar pieces are this adorable polka dot. The pink in the flowers is the same fabric as the sashing. The red and green are solid colors.

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The second red print.

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The only blue in the quilt. It's a darling sprig with a white dot flower.

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Green solid color binding with machine stitching!

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The only brown print in the quilt used for this bud and the black eyed susan center. It looks like a chocolate indigo.

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Muslin backing

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These little flowers were stitched using that dastardly red flower print and now have holes.

That's it for today. Here's the next block.

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A Day Off

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I actually have today off from work. It's the only day in about 14 days. Memorial Day has passed and most of the schools are finished for the year this week so we'll be in full tourist mode before I know it.

I slept in so the block is late being posted. Sorry, I just couldn't resist the extra time in bed. I actually was up at 8 am but Clutch and I have been couch cuddling and deciding what we'd like to do today.
First on my list is to spread out the Sally Post quilt on this beautiful sunny day and take the best pictures I can. I may wait to post the next Nancy Page Magic Vine block and a couple of Midget Blocks until later tonight when the sun goes down. I'm also going to do an all out search of the internet for some of the P&B background fabric for the Shipshewana Amish Mystery Quilt. If I don't find anything today, I'll beg Teresa for another piece off what she has. No more waiting. My fingers are just itching to get going on that quilt again.
I've got some picking up and organizing to tackle. It's amazing how fast a disaster appearance can creep up in your house when you're in a drop and go mode.
I'm working on a friends Round Robin quilt and would like to cut out the pieces for my round. It is just beautiful and screams her name at first glance. She's going to love it!
I have two huge bins of antique lace I was going to list on ebay but I'm not sure it's really bringing in it's deserved value so I might just do some sorting. I am going to list a bunch of Coldwater Creek clothes, Earth shoes, some purses and I have a really rare antique quilt kit I think I'm going to part with. The finished quilt was pictured on page 30 of Merikay Waldvogel's Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair. There are two beautiful, tall vases of flowers. It is drop dead beautiful and I paid a lot for the kit several years ago.

I placed my first order at a couple of Etsy shops. That could be a dangerous place. So many creative people with beautiful things to sell.

Silverware Holder

I bought an antique fork bag from my Daddy's old company,

Mini Pincushion

a tiny pincushion,

Pavlinka Matryoshka Doll

a beautiful Martyushka doll

Spool Dollies

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and a little family of Spoolies. These little babies could get as addictive as my Hitty doll is.

Also on the list are to put in at least two sections of dock, finish raking around the deck and take a trip to Renee's House of Quilting in Williamsburg to buy my second Aunt Philly's toothbrush rug needle because I lost the first one before I even started a rug! Considering the price of gas right now maybe I'll just order it from Aunt Philly.

If I'm going to get anything done I better wrap this up and get moving.


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Sally Post Floral Sampler Photos

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Many of you asked for some additional pictures of the Sally Post quilt.
I photographed each of the blocks long ago but never took segment photos. I'll spread the quilt out and take a few more.
I'll also make a placement guide with the block numbers on it so you can position your blocks like Sally did hers if you want to. Did you realize half of the blocks face one direction and the other half are flipped?

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