Through a Grandmother's Eyes

 This is an ad for a sewing machine.  Notice especially the little girl in the center.

 Do you see a similarity?  I do.  

 Grandma's can stretch things a little to suit themselves.

Dogwood Flower

I just finished this small item.  Is is a wall hanging, reading mat or what else?

Elosie thought it should be a reading mat, but it does seem a little small for that.  Anyways she can't lay on it and read. 

 Fanciful feathers on the border.

 I added a thin layer of batting behind the flowers to make them puff out.

 

I put e's inside my l's on the sashings.

 

 

Teri's vintage quilt

She gave me a top to quilt that was pieced in the 30's. it is so lovely. 

The applique is done with black running stitches.  This is the same method of a quilt I have from the same time period.

I love the fabrics and the look of this quilt.

Dogwoods are Together

I have the  top of this small piece all put together.

 I was intending to use green with the pink, but didn't have a good one. I think of green being the in color with pink these days.  I'm trying to use up my stash. So blue flowers it is.  After all, I'm not going to use this blue on a boy's quilt.

Eloise has watched me put this together.  She really likes the flowers.  When the top was done, she told me it was good for reading on.  So maybe it's a child's reading mat.

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The girls spent part of the weekend with us overnight.  Here it's nap time with Aunt Naomi.

Tulips - A Finish

My finish this week.  It is a small one but I really like it.

 Finished size comes to 12" x 18"

 My husband wanted it hung on the wall.

 That surprised me.  "It's so pink!  It seems like it should be in Eloise or Juliet's room."

 He said, "It's Spring"

 It didn't look good on my wall, so after hanging it I took it down.  Maybe he'll forget about it.

 I've been selling quite a bit lately in my store, so I put it in there.  $25

Dogwoods

I've started another new project out of the same magazine that the tulip project came out of.  This one is dogwoods.  Again it will be a small project, only 4 squares. And this is the last one out of this magazine and I'll give it away. I'm sure others will enjoy all the nice projects in it.

The Farm - Garage, Garden and Fields

 I like how the garage turned out.  It holds the old car that I used to drive to school everyday.  It would flood on me all the time and I would get so frustrated.  It was a "54 Ford I believe.

 The cows are out chewing their cud.  The black and white look good, but the brown ones?  But they really are distant so maybe they don't have to be so noticeable.

 They hayfield.  The bales will have some threadwork and I know the tractor will be a challenge to make. I was driving that tractor when I was 10 years old and done at 12 because my younger brother took over.  But how I did like driving it.

 Now this garden is my problem area.  I think I'm coming from a bad perspective, so I'll probably do it again.  I'm not supposed to be really looking from overhead so much.  I'll have to keep looking at other pictures.  That corn is not right.

 This tree next to the house is a mulberry tree.  We had a swing hanging from it.  That's what that brown thing is sitting in midair.  I may couch yarn or some thick thread for the ropes.  In the summer we would get purple feet from the mulberries that dropped.