Hey, Kathy B!

Kathy B, just look what you started!  You showed me the Second Hand Clothes pattern and you must have known I wouldn't be able not to start something!  We had a swap this past fall -- we shared 6" squares and 2" strips and I swapped them all out.  We each ended up with enough squares and a good head-start on the nine-patch blocks.  I wanted to limit my color palette so Honna and I traded some of the yield -- she was leaning towards blues and purples, so it all worked out just fine.  I made my 9-patches as a leader-ender for a month or two.  At a recent quilting day at our church, I got a lot of it assembled and tonight spent another hour sewing rows together.  Another long evening, perhaps later this week, and it should be done and ready for the quilter.  It is a queen size.

On a totally unrelated note, many fellow bloggers are posting wonderful spring photographs.  Daffodils, even.  We're prolly a good four weeks from daffodils here Near Philadelphia.  We have crocus shoots in our front yard and tips of daffs coming up here and there.  A friend in the next town over reports having seen a blooming crocus, but I'm suspicious that she's given to hallucinations.

Last week Joe snipped some forsythia stems and brought them in and over the weekend they burst forth.  We're enjoying them so much.

Tonight he snipped some more.  These are going to school with me tomorrow.  To sit on my desk.

These flowers always make me think of Andrew.  When he was in nursery school, one day he brought home a piece of construction paper on which there were brown stems drawn and wee bits of yellow tissue paper glued on them.  "This is for-this-i-a," he told me proudly and carefully.  Forthisia.  I still have trouble knowing which is actually correct . . . .

And that's what's new, Near Philadelphia.

Comments

Pat said…
Made me smile. A lot.
Salem Stitcher said…
I think for-this-i-a is just right.
Anonymous said…
Love your second hand clothes quilt! I have almost all my pieced blocks done, also doing as a leader ender project. So, am not far behind you :-)
Kathy B
Deb said…
Nancy,

Tell me what you mean when you say "leader ender" project. Been quilting for a while, but have never heard that terminology until I started reading blogs. Thanks!
Lori said…
I love forthisia's- a true sign of spring!! What a nice memory of your son.


I adore your quilt top!! What a fun scrappy pattern with a wide variety of fabric.
Quiltdivajulie said…
The forsythia bushes are in full bloom here ... and I love them just as you do. I remember making art as you described ... in fact, I found some my mother saved when we went through her things (50 years later).
Nicole said…
I remember forsythias from my childhood. We had them growning along the driveway between our house and my grandmother's. They were the first thing to bloom in the spring.
I have the pattern and all the fabrics to make Second Hand Clothes. I keep starting up other projects before I get to it! Thanks for the reminder that I own it!
Nancy, you inspired me to pick some forsythia and made a gorgeous arrangement in a pretty vase i bought a few years ago. I added a few daffodils. Hope you soon have warmer weather.