Skipping Along The Quilting Lines♡

Hello lovely lovelies♡ I woke up this morning......and you were on my mind ♪♩ ♫♫♪♪......because.....'tis Sunday♡ And....we all know what that means??!! It means 'tis the day of flower overload....and a little slow hand stitching; from my happy little place♡

How has your week  been?? Mine flew by....again. I am supposing yours flew by, too. Actually, some days I didn't know what day it was, such is the cadence of late, of the days, the weeks. Thank goodness for calendars and phones; and the like, to keep me on track. February has arrived. I am reminded that it is the last month of summer (not that I need reminding) and I had better make the most of my balmy, February days.

The garden has gone bonkers! 'Tis wild! 'Tis overrun! Both the flowers; and those dastardly, pesky weeds! But I will pretend I don't see the sky-reaching weeds and just focus on all the pretty flowers. We will get to those nasty garden interlopers eventually and dig them up, sending them to the great abyss. Oh my goodness; the flowers! The armloads of beautiful bouquets picked to fill pretty vases! Our home is overflowing with vases of hydrangeas, dahlias, roses, gladdies, sweet peas.....cosmos. There is a potpourri of delicious scents wafting throughout the rooms.....intoxicating! Also, from every window there is a vignette of flowers nodding and swaying in the breeze. 'Tis rather heavenly♡

In the garden the hydrangeas are still blooming beautifully, but I have noticed  ever so slightly, the petals beginning to nudge me that the time when hydrangeas begin to  change into those soft, pastel hues of autumn, is not far away. Not a lot.......but the seasonal cycle  of the hydrangeas are a-changing...just a wee bit. I suppose over the coming weeks and months the softly-hued pastels of the hydrangeas will be become more apparent.

In the sewing room, the fernery....and wherever else I placed my gluteus maximus I have been hand quilting my Hydrangeas Cobblestones quilt.  Gosh, it was a pain in the royal proverbial to sandwich all the layers together. Now I know why I very rarely piece the backing of a quilt. You have to try to place the front aligned with the backing design, seams etc etc. Such a pain!! I don't know how you ladies who always seem to have a pieced backing do this; perhaps you could enlighten me. Even now, I don't really know if it is perfectly lined up, but you know, at this point I don't really care. I know, shocking!! But, this queen size quilt took such a long time to prepare for quilting that I am soooooo over it. Me thinks I will look at the back of this quilt wearing my rose-coloured glasses. I will perhaps turn a blind eye to the misalignment; if indeed there is any. Yep....wilful blindness, will be my defence.

As for the design for the quilting; simple, simple and even more simple! I am quilting diagonally in both directions through the  octagons with the quilting stitches kissing the corners of the squares as they skip by. Super easy, and I think will be super quick. Well...it should be...shouldn't it???? For the border, with the hydrangea flowers do-si-do-ing around on the butterfly fabric, I will quilt randomly around the outline of some of the butterflies with meandering quilting every which way giving a sense of the butterflies fluttering here, there and everywhere. But the border will be quilted lastly, so I need not worry about that just yet. For now I am just concentrating on the central panel of octagons and squares. I love skipping along the quilting lines, the needle burrowing down and up again....in, out, in, out; in a meditative fashion.

Cheerio from my happy, little, flowery place♡ Hopefully, I have beamed some flowery deliciousness into your little part of the world. For some of you the spring bulbs will soon be popping up their pretty heads, and for us downunder, the trees will soon begin to change into the gorgeous autumnal frocks. But not just yet. There is still day after day of summery loveliness for me to soak up; to immerse myself in. This coming week I hope to enjoy skipping along the quilting lines of my Hydrangea Cobblestones. Sending you all a little summery love♡ Have a fabulous week♡ Don't forget to see the miracle in the everyday♡

Until the next time............

  

 

Linking up with Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching, Judy's Design Wall Monday and Frederique's Quilting, Patchwork & Applique