2014 retreat quilt

I tried basting with 505 spray baste. It was a nightmare! I put the top on after I glued the batting to the backing  using the ironing board . To glue the top I tacked the backing and batting to the wall in husband's wood shop and with husband's help finally got the sandwich together. It stays pretty good but to me impossible to get wrinkles out using the ironing board. If you try it on the floor, you gum up everything, on the wall everything gets distorted! Well it is done now. To stabilize more with some stitch in the ditch with sewing machine.
Will let you know how it goes.😢🌻

Bad things happen to good quilters

This is a great book written by Joan Ford. I have her scrap therapy books, the two of them,  and I loved them both.  This is her third book I think and love it too!
I also follow her blog.
I will be doing Flower Bed from her second book at the next quilting retreat this fall. It is my first quilt of hers and I am already happy that I am using scrap for this.
My idea on scraps is that I find it so fun to use fabric left over from prior projects. Those leftover,  are fabrics that I loved and to revisit them again is so much fun. Some I remember exactly the quilt and some not at all. Still it is great fun. It also seems that I kind of buy the same style of fabrics and same family of colors.
That makes the scrappy quilt in my mind come together beautifully.
No pics for today but now going to work on some blocks.

Rip or not. Ribbit

Dear husband.

I saw a mistake in some blocks that I just finished. To take them apart or not. Kind of questioning myself out loud... Husband answer: you will be sad for just the little time it takes to rip or a long time looking at your finished quilt!

He knows his wife🌻

Here are some pictures of more blocks for come walk in my garden.

Secret drawer block

Still making blocks from Come Walk In My Garden from Peg's Pieces aka Peggy.

I just love everything about this quilt! This little blocks are some finicky to make . A lot of add a corner of tiny pieces. Tiny like 1 inch square. Flying geese and all. Beautiful though.

More from come walk in my garden quilt

So you have a friendship star, a tree block with add a corner technique. The friendship star demanded some half square triangle. You have the pink flower that is paper pieced and the leaf block that is add a corner with some tiny blocks😜

Lots of add a corner and paper piecing .

So far fun to make because of all the different techniques involved. Certainly not a boring quilt to make .

Look at some pictures.

Grand Digue fair

Today I accompanied hubby to the Grand Digue fair. A lot of fun stuff is going on there!

They have old agricole machinery that they work just like in the old days for the pleasure of people coming to see the show.

There is a museum on the premises as well with a lot of interesting stuff.  From old school stuff to shoe making to fishing gear etc...

Here some picture