Fresh and NEW

From starchy and brown yuck!

To GORgeous flowers in bright,happy colors!

Our butterfly bush and lantana are alive and bursting with color

 Radishes just pulled from the veggie garden and ready for their cleaning before being eaten;)


What is growing in your garden(s)?  Or what do you find FRESH and NEW in this NEW summer season?

Enjoy,
Sara

Get your hot dogs, popcorn,cotton candy,soda HERE!

You are at a baseball game enjoying the sights of the players, the lights.  Enjoying the sounds of people cheering,booing,singing and laughing.  Then....your stomach starts to rumble and you want something to eat with all the EXCITEment!! The vendors appear as IF they know of your hunger!

Now it's getting later, bottom of the 8th inning, the weather is cooling you down quite a bit.  You wish you had a QUILT to cover yourself with at this point--hello-lol;)

In comes:  Baseball Dreams

I am thinking there is a HOMERUN at the end of that game to wrap things up!!

What a great way to end the game.

Time to go home and cuddle up under that quilt and dream of the game:)

Quilted in random straight lines using a red thread and each block was outlined in red stitching made to look like the lacing on a baseball.

On the label it reads: "great American past time" which I took from the fabric selvedge,thought it summed the quilt up well.

Binding: Moda Brown Marble gave a baseball glove effect

Backing: more of what was on the quilt top Kona, Alexander Henry baseball print and a few other Marcus Brother star prints

Size: 52x82 for a twin bed I was trying to allow for some overhang on the bed it is going to be on and I think I have done so.

My second manly quilt done!!  AND I cannot wait for my brother to see the results:):)

Quilt ON!

Sara

What was I thinking?

Mess one block up completely: CHECK

Try again, this time with the aid of pictures from Sometimes Crafter: CHECK

Pretty block second time round: CHECK

Do we like paper piecing after 3 of these bad boys are put together?: CHECK and YES!

WHAT was I thinking then??

Probably that I was itchin' to try something new and this satisfied my creativity bug;)

BTW, I used tracing paper for the backing, a pen to transfer the pattern to, some fabric from a purchase @ Connecting Threads some time ago and away I went with my iron and trusty Janome sewing machine:)

I did the 3rd one last night.  One.more.to.go.  This will equal one pretty rockin' circle of geese block---yippee!!

Take care and see ya'll soon,

Sara