Hope is quilted

Liking how this turned out...the backing is some fabric my son brought back from Paris France last year!

Hope QQAL2

This is the final top, still couldn’t avoid some same fabric grouping!  Oh well!

My Hope quilt

Lots of ways of assembling the quilt blocks, but the difficulty is trying to avoid same fabrics touching!  Looks like I need to do some more rearranging!

Sourdough bread, “Hope”

I joined the sourdough starter craze, I guess we have too much time on our hands!  It is a fun experiment, using no yeast and you feel like you’re back in chemistry class again...or maybe HomeEc!  So after 7 days she was ready to be baked, I didn’t want a round, crusty loaf but rather a regular loaf I could make a sandwich with. Using my grandmother’s bread pan I made my first loaf of  yeast bread using no commercial yeast. Yummy success!

On Sunday I joined thousands of other quilters for Gudrun Erla of GE Designs...her second quilt along, “Hope.” I didn’t get very far along, the sunshine called me outside!  I used a fat quarter bundle that I can’t remember where it came from. After laying it out with a contrast fabric, I decided the contrast was too dark!  So I’m looking for another color, and going to work on that today. By the way the Elvira quilt was Gudrun’s first quilt along.

Here is another color, hmm do I like it...

Elvira is now totally done

Decided to attempt the crosshatch quilting and it worked out beautifully, now I wonder why I was so hesitant. Probably just laziness!

I love this little quilt!

Elvira quilting

This may be all the quilting I do on this, although I originally planned to do crosshatching. I’m kinda afraid I’ll mess up so I might just stop while I’m ahead!

The next project is Quilting Jet Girl’s “push-pull” pattern, or I might do Alycia’s QOV mystery... many projects!

Quilts for Kids

Here is this complete and ready to donate.  I don’t know the latest with regard to their workshops but pretty sure they are on hold until later.  Looking forward to that day!