I Ran Away from Home…

This is what it looks like now…. I originally was going to use a white cotton with silver sparkles between the blocks, but I didn't have enough. I decided that some of my fused crazy patch would work, so I pulled out all the white fabric chunks I had with me along with some pale painted pastel fabrics and fused them together for what I needed. I quilted the crazy patch areas with a soft pastel colored variegated thread.

This is the little "guinea pig" that I made up to use to trial quilting designs and thread choices. This one is nearly 8"x10" in size, with photos of pink Dogwood and blue Snow Glories.

Here is another over year old piece that got some attention. It is 12"x12" in sixe and had an assortment of different flower photos with black yarn couched over the edges and fuzed crazy patch between the photos. This piece is the one that "told" me that I needed clear thread to quilt in the flower photos. You can probably see the flower in the lower right where I tried a smoke colored invisible thread and I didn't like the way it looked, so I had to wait until I got home to do any more. I forgot to take my cleaar thread with me.

Here are a few more photos from my gardens that may find themselves in a quilt in the future. I took most of these photos after I got back home from my escape.

This yellow daff is growing all by itself, not too far from a crowd of white ones with the same flower form- probably a seedling that reverted back to the parents of the white ones.

My favorite spring flower is the blue Snow Glory- here is a photo of a pink one that I got in a mixture of pink and white ones. Some came out deeper, and there are also some white ones, too. This year, the white ones didn't have too many flowers, but next year I should have lotsmore of all the colors.

Pulsatilla is one of my favorite plants for sunprints. The leaves are very lacy and sunprint beautifully. The flowers bloom very early, before the foliage fully appears. Right now they are really fuzzy looking. The seed pods that will form later are also fuzzy puffs.

This is one of my Rhubarb plants. Last summer, I finally planted a few that had been in pots on the front lawn for years, as well as dividing the one that had been in this area for yearsand needed dividing. I now have 10 gorgeous clumps like this one- Rhubarb pies!! I should have lots for the freezer, too.

Now I'm off to finishing those quilts shown at the beginning of this post…. It feels good to finally get back to my machine!