Turkey Tracks: May 14, 2022
Daffodils, White Violets, and Churn Dash Blocks
My daffodils have been awesome this year. And some are still blooming strongly. The cool of spring helps. We’ve had a few warm days (low 70s), but we have rain and cooler temps coming in, so maybe the daffs will hang out a bit longer.
The daffodils are the first of the garden plants to come inside each year. Here’s a bouquet on my dining table.
And a bouquet in the kitchen window—alongside some white violets that are blooming all over the place in the garden. Some of my daffs are so ”fluffy” they look like little peonies.
I finished the Cotton+Steel/Ruby Star Society Churn Dash blocks for this very, very scrappy but fun quilt top. I’ve started sewing the rows together. I like the secondary patterns that emerge when one buts up the blocks together. I can re-iron one set of seams (the sides) between blocks, but not another set (top to bottom)—which means I’ll have to snip and bend those seams to get them flatter. This is the 8th quilt from this winter project.
I have a small pile of fabrics that might be big enough for a pieced backing—and a cheerful red I can use for the binding.
This whole project has decimated the C+S stash, but has also produced a lot of cut blocks in various sizes that also need to be made into quilt tops.
It is the nature of quilting, and it is all good.
Until, it isn’t.
One can go crazy with using up all the tiny scraps. I’m doing a better job of setting reasonable boundaries of where the crazy vs. sane boundaries are. For me, anyway.
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I love love love it. Just keep producing your masterpieces. They are all so impressive.
What do you do with all your beautiful quilts?
I have 7 grandchildren—so I’ve saved many of my quilts for them—and in the mix there is a hand-sewn quilt for each. And, of course, they each have quilts from me now. I give away quilts to other family members—as the families on both sides are large. I give away quilts to local friends here as well. And while I do have many quilts here in the house—which get rotated around—I more or less practice a Zen tenant: you can have the work but not the fruit of the work. My passion for quilting is fueled by sharing them, for sure. I don’t make them to sell—for anyone—as that would make them “work” and not joyful. For me, anyway.