Namaste - the Quilt

Younger son's birthday quilt - Namaste

53" wide x 66" long

The Philip Jacobs Agate used for the back is truly fabulous.

Quilted with my wavy window blinds 

using Glide thread in Sky.

(I was SO happy to find a single thread 

that worked with every other color in the quilt -

and he chose this quilting design because he said

 it reminded him of a gentle breeze)

He absolutely loves it (and so do I).

Quiltdivajulie

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“Even if it is very foggy, cloudy or stormy, the blue sky is always there, for us, above the clouds.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Namaste - the Flimsy

Introducing Namaste - the quilt top

(click HERE to read about the meaning of the word)

This collaborative effort will be one of younger son's

40th birthday presents.

(he paired the light blues with the center triangles and

did the layout after I had sewn all the 4" blocks)

Fabrics in the 'prayer flags' were harvested from 

the cut off corners of Feisty's spiderweb blocks,

excess trimmed from the backing of Halcyon,

and a few others from the resource boxes.

The quilt top measures 53" x 66"

That glorious Philip Jacobs Agate yardage 

will be the quilt's backing.

Less than a week now before his big day . . . 

Quiltdivajulie

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“Brown is the color of hearth and home — of dried herbs and stone-ground bread and freshly baked cookies. It represents all of the nurturing, life-sustaining, down-to-earth qualities of terra firma, the very shade of earth itself. Just as in the sturdy oak, brown represents roots, a steady, stable source of security, comfort, and normalcy. It is the color of fertile soil and plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land — rugged and outdoorsy. It is pinecone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe. Brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance.”

Leatrice Eiseman

Updates Galore

Let's start these updates with this initial fabric pull for a future quilt

that has (at least for now) been named Scintillating.

This one will feature larger pieces to show off the fabrics

and hopefully come together in less time

once I get done pondering the fabrics themselves.

Dumpster Diving 7 - Respite has been pin basted.

With the excess pieced backing from DD7

and some stashed purple stripe for backing/binding,

I'll be able to make another runner for my sister.

Younger son has laid out the 4" (fin.) blocks for his 

upcoming milestone birthday quilt named Namaste.

He's letting it rest for a day or so and then he'll do 

some rearranging before it is ready to clip and web.

Here's a better in-process view with more accurate colors.

The KF Geode in blue will make a fabulous back.

(this is standard KFCollective yardage -

I don't really like the wide back sateen versions)

Moving on to my ongoing AHIQ challenge project,

this is one sewn-together string pieced tulip for Forty-Six.

Heres' a look at some of the 12.5" (cut) background squares

and backing fabric that has finally found its quilt.

(and each of the yellow tulip petals contain at least one text print

as a nod to Amanda Gorman being a poet)

At this point all twenty tulips are pinned with their backgrounds.

Next step will be stems and leaves but for now it is 

time to let this rest for a bit while I work on other things.

These are my March blocks in scrappy greens for Hoppipolla.

There are 31 of them and they'll each finish at 3 inches.

(Reminder - for any of these quilt projects

you can click on the labels at the end of this post

to see all related posts for that project OR

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Wanda posted a photo of herself after thirteen months without a haircut.

It has been six months since I've had mine cut 

and this is the longest my hair has been in over 40 years.

(unlike Wanda's "curl" - mine is fine and not curly)

The whole family likes it - a lot.

My second dose of COVID vaccine is set for this coming Friday

so maybe by late April I will feel comfortable enough

to schedule an appointment for a gentle trim.

If not, I'll let it continue to grow.

And through it all, Little Man continues to bring joy to our lives.

He has grown so much taller and none of us

want to believe he is already four-and-a-half . . .

Quiltdivajulie

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.