Today, only blue things, well nearly! First a zucchini bread from a recipe from Connie. It was delicious. The mixture of zucchini, cinnamon and vanilla is a bit curious but it tasted great. Although I would not call it a bread but rather a cake and a rich one at that!
Then some pictures of my quilt-as-you-go sampler. I am coming along and the quilting is much easier with one block at a time. I am trying to improve my machine-quilting on that one and I am having fun trying a lot of different designs.
I hope to finish that quilt before september (the new course starts then) so that I can show it to the students who made the same blocks in the last course session.It seems the weather is getting better at last so I am off to enjoy the last week-end before school starts!
Have a nice week-end too!
17 comments:
Do you the quilting yourself? - it's stunning.
So far, what a great job you are doing!
Your sampler is gorgeous !
This is brilliant ! Blue is my very favourire colour. I have done a couple of quilt-as-you-go's and quite enjoy the method. Your quilting is lovely !
Hi there. Found you thru the 4 seasons quilt swap. Just wanted to say HI. Love your blog btw :)
WOW! The quilt is sweet! Love the machine quilting on it! I understand what you mean about calling it cake, I would too. However, I think because it is shaped as a loaf, it is referred to as bread. If you made them into cups, they would be muffins I guess! ;o) lol Thanks for sharing!
Your blue sampler quilt looks fabulous. Love all the different quilting you've done on the blocks :)
Love, love, love your machine quilting-- those swirly-q's around the pitcher are the BEST!
Wowza! That is some gorgeous quilting - be sure to give yourself a pat on the back *s* Mmmm - the zucchini bread looks yummy.
The sampler is wonderful, Gwen!!! Love it! Both the colours and the qiuilting!
That zuchini bread looked a bit scary to me when I read Connie's recepie, but knowing you have tried it and "survived" as well, makes me want to give it a try *lol*
WOW ! Your sampler is soooo beautiful, Gwen. Not to mention the machine quilting !
I have often thought about having a try with the quilt-as-you-go method, but I haven't yet...
It's funny that all these different blues are attracting me, and I very rarely use the color blue in my quilts (they are very seldom in my stash, as well)... Will have to think about that !
Hugs & smiles...
(thanks for your kind words on my blog)
NADINE
Thanks for your comment on my blog. Your work is lovely.
The quilting is gorgeous. Glad you liked the zucchini bread recipe. I made some a few weeks ago and this batch was very cake-like as opposed to in the past when it was more bread-like. I think the zucchini this year had more liquid when I shredded it. Perhaps that was a factor? And, I tried baking it in a 9x13 pan instead of loaf pans and it was again cake-like in that respect.
I like your Blue Quilt, Beautiful!
Kind Regards,
Sonnja
Hi again, Gwen!
Thank you for your sweet comment on my SBS blocks! Your plans for a Civil war diary sampler sounds great! Hope you will share pictures! Maybe someday I'll give that a go as well, but for now the next big sampler on my list is Dear Jane (whenever I get to start...).
Take care!
The sampler is beautiful, I need to learn how to do more than simple meandering, where did you learn the designs you used?
Just love your quilting....it's beautiful! I need to do a quilt-as-you-go and try to improve my machine quilting and yours is definitely an inspiration.
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