LeMoyne Star Quilting Progress

You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. 

It is only important what you do.

~ Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls

Quilting

I haven't moved quickly but at least the quilt is in progress. I wanted a quilting design that honored the piecing, didn't have many starts and stops {burying threads takes so much time}, and was less densely quilted than usual for me. My friend, Marty, spent an hour with me on the phone discussing how to quilt this. We used FaceTime to see exactly what we were talking about. Isn't technology great!

We decided on orange peels in the star points and a modified flower in each background segment. It turned out better than expected. The quilting really shows, which is not always the case on printed fabrics.

FMQ arcs and flowers on LeMoyne Star

The small sawtooth stars on the border will reprise those flowers and orange peels. Here's a sketch on transparent overlay. One of the nice things is that this doesn't have to be marked on the quilt.

Sketched FMQ ideas for Sawtooth Star blocks

I'm still weighing options for the outer border. 

Gardening

I pulled my first watermelon radish. These lovely specimens look a bit like watermelons with red centers surrounded by white and a green outer rim. For the last few years, I find them in restaurant salads but have only found the root in the grocery twice. They are very large radishes, about three inches, so it takes at least sixty days for them to grow. This is day 75 but the one I pulled was only about an inch and a half. And the outer layer was green at the top but the part under the soil was still white. But I shaved narrow slices off it with a potato peeler and enjoyed some on my salads this week. Who know how long the others will take to get to full size. On the other hand, the beans and squash are coming in steadily.

New Blogger

So many people are having trouble with the new Blogger that I wanted to share a trick I've used for a while. When starting a new post, I first write x's like this:

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Then I move the cursor to the lines between the xx's and add photos. In the example above, I can add three photos. I've found I must have some xx's {my temporary substitute for type} above and below each photo. If I want to add more photos, I first add more xx's to the "end" so there's always text after each photo. Does that make sense? Finally, I move the cursor to the xx's, type my text, and only then backspace out the xx's. Otherwise the text seems to become part of the captions and does those other weird things. I hope this helps.

 

Enjoy the day, Ann