(What? It's July, already?)
When I came out to the porch yesterday morning, there sat the tomatoes we picked last week. Most of the under-ripe ones I picked Saturday had turned red. The ones that Nanny picked earlier in the week had reached perfect ripeness; a few of them were a little too ripe and had to be tossed. Time to can them. I ended up with 6 pints.
Late in the day, Granddaughter #1 came over to work on her quilt. When she began to sew the first two rows together, the sewing machine needle broke. It scared her; she was afraid she had ruined the machine. Not to worry. I have a stash of machine needles. The problem was sewing over the seams. This quilt is backed with minky, and the batting is - I don't know what it is - it's thick and squishy and slightly furry. She's sewing it together so that the seams are exposed, and at the junction of every block, there are TWELVE layers of fabric to sew through. "Go slowly," I told her. She ended up hand-cranking the needle through the fabric at the seams.
My lavender quilt is progressing slowly. I'm hand-piecing the hexagon flowers at night in my recliner. I'm turning under and basting the outer edges of the flowers and, if things go as originally planned, I'll blanket-stitch them to the background fabric with purple pearl cotton thread.
The current plan is to make 24 10"x10" hexagon flower blocks and alternate them with 24 blocks of a different design - something like this:
But I don't like that square block in the middle. Which is sad, because the WHOLE QUILT design was originally built around that little square of fabric.
I am toying with the idea of nixing the square blocks idea, altogether, and making the whole quilt out of hexagons. (They call that pattern "Grandma's flower garden," I think.) Gonna have to ponder that a little more.
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