Stripe it Your Way Quilt Spread



I have 1/4 yard of each fabric, 8 fabrics in stripes and solid colors.  Cut them in different shapes of triangles.......I used 8"X11" paper copy to draw the triangles made 5 triangles in different shapes.  There were 40 blocks,  5 of each triangle and each on 8 fabrics.

This "stripe it your way quilt spread" is specially made for a table that we usually used to play tiles ~ "mahjong" is a game that we played whenever we all get together i.e. sisters in Toronto, Canada.  Instead of using a bedspread to cover the table, thought about making something different to cover the "mahjong table".....this is still a project on the go as I have been thinking of the batting if I would use regular thin batting or just use a felt material so it won't be bulky......I pick and choose how the blocks are arranged.  Some are solids, others all stripes.....



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Wire-wrapped Earrings

I had been neglecting to hasten my jewelry making lately, my focus was to gain more knowledge in wire-wrapping but because sewing is also a passion.......my jewelry making was put aside.  Last night I started to make couple of wire-wrapped earrings....and these were the outcome......

 

These pair of earrings were made of gold antique filled wire-wrapped with 2mm garnet beads and red agate beads.....

 

These were also wire-wrapped with bronze wires, made a 24 inches rounded in a mandrel, wire-wrapped again with bronze wires and attached a 12 mm cherry quartz bead...................

White Lilies

Finally my white lilies bloomed, I planted them about 2 years ago, they were given to me as a gift, they were in a pot.....once they've stopped blooming, I replanted them in my garden....they're blooming since they have been planted 2 years ago in fact, there are more lily plants sprouting out around this plant........perhaps next year there will be more blooms....:-)



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Quilted table cover and potholder

To keep me busy, I made a 14"X14" quilted log cabin design table cover, simple and easy to make.

This is the backing of the log cabin quilted table cover above image....

Simple Quilted Potholder made from scrap fabrics.....

Tomatoes and Eggplant

 

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  My one and only eggplant in the garden blooming lots of flowers and producing more eggplants.  We tried one eggplant, grilled in the BBQ cooker and it was delicious, succulent and tender.....there are more eggplants coming out.....yay!

 These are my Italian basil (above image) cut some on top to use for my spaghetti sauce; cut up fresh oregano, onions, and garlic....no fresh tomatoes yet, soon they'll be grown, I will be making my own pasta sauce from fresh tomatoes...:-)

 Tomatoes really getting bigger and soon I will make fresh pasta sauce and fresh salsa...:-) Or fried green tomatoes?  Or mix them with your salad.....

 The above image are my sweet onions, some are red onions and some are white onions.  The red onions are not doing good on this kind of soil, I supposed it needed more manure....The image below is my sweet potato, I had about 3 planted, growing in a container.....hopefully by the end of the summer I will have some sweet potatoes...I love sweet potatoes! 

Simple 4"X4" granny squares

These granny squares can be utilized into anything, a purse or a handbag, a table cover, a spread or just simply make it a pillow cushion décor....

A 12"x12" simple granny square that I made recently used it as a table cover adding a décor to a white crocheted table cover......it adds a bit of life to a maple table........

 

These granny squares can be made into a table cover as well, just crochet and attach them together to make a cover, or make a handbag with lining inside.............

Daisy Granny Squares

I had been crocheting granny squares and collecting them to ensure that I had enough to make some projects...here are some of the daisy and simple granny squares that I had done lately.....