A New Sunday, A New Year♡

 

Hello, lovely lovelies ♡ From my little home to yours a blessed New Year to you♡ How did you see the new year in?? Did yours enter with a shebang, an explosion of fireworks, or, like me, did it creep in stealthily while you were sleeping?? I can't seem to stay up until the bewitching hour any more. 

A new year.  I wonder what stories we will write this year?? I wonder what stories will be inked into the history throughout the world. I just know with everything that is going on in this world of ours, it will be an interesting year. A very rough ride for some countries, and hence rippling throughout the world.

Before I chat about all things stitching, I want to say that I feel sadness at the passing of Jimmy Carter. Sad, though you would not wish him back. I'm sad that America, nor indeed the world will never see the likes of this wonderful statesman ever again. In the messy arena of politics he was a man of faith who never  lost sight of who he was; or his deep faith. A most amazing man, whom with his equally amazing wife spent their years after the presidency in service of people, making millions of lives throughout the world better; living his faith, his love for God through his actions. No bangs and whistles, no noisy gongs and cymbals, no look at me, look at me, look at me; just going about his life showing humility, compassion, decency, selflessness; and grace to all. A shining beacon of graciousness. He once said,  "to me, faith is not just a noun but also a verb". This encapsulates Jimmy Carter perfectly. I have no doubt, upon entering heaven, and as Jimmy Carter looked deep into the eyes of Jesus, the phrase "well done good and faithful servant!" was  lovingly said. No doubt at all. 

But, to all things slow stitching. Here in my little place where January meanders by with one perfect summer day after another, I've started the new year with petting pretty Liberty cottons. Bundles of twenty pretty fat quarters of sweet Liberty prints. And as I petted, and ooh-ed and ahh-ed over these pretties.......of course I had to take a few happy snaps before I snippety-snipped into them.

Swans gliding in pools of Liberty pretties♡

Two swans a-swanning♡

But what to do with these Liberty pretties?? An EPP pretty perhaps?? As I haven't an EPP pretty in the works I decided to skip down the flower-lined, tessellated EPP path once again. I've decided upon stars this time. I've never fashioned a quilt where a cluster of stars twinkle and shine. I'm using diamonds and hexagons; the templates which I used in my Sweet Sunday quilt, many moons ago. I'll mix the Liberty patterns with Kona solids. Names such as Cantaloupe, Ballerina, Gum Drop, Banana, Capri, Blue Jay, Helliotrope......so, so tantalising; all dancing rhythmically with the Liberty prints. Of course, I won't have enough Liberty fabrics to make a large quilt, so I'll sneak in some other fabrics which have the same look as Liberty and throw these into the mix. I have a wide assortment of Kona solids which is fabulous, so I won't have to acquire any more. Though, I will need to purchase a Kona solid for the hexies dancing between each star. I don't know what colour. Perhaps a grey with a lavender tint would work. 

A new quilt for a new year. One of a few; perhaps?? Though, I never seem to churn out many quilts in any year. Just ambling, sometimes skipping, along the flowery path of slow stitching on many a Sunday.

From my little home to yours, sending you a little love sprinkled with sweetly fragranced sweet peas on this sunny, summery Sunday♡

Until the next time......