Richmond Express: On The Porch!
It’s been “Bipolar Season” in Southwestern Virginia over the past couple of weeks.
The dang weather doesn’t know quite what it wants to be doing.
And on this afternoon we donned jackets and sweaters and headed out to the porch for some quilty photo fun because – at least the wind wasn’t blowing a million miles a minute!
Scrappy and Flashy everywhere!
At the Left is Rockabilly Swing followed by a wonderfully scrappy medallion – two sisters on retreat with friends!
En Provence made by Shirley and some more scrappy triangles! Honestly, I don’t know if this is Ann’s or Sally’s! I can’t keep it all straight most days. Too much lint in my brain.
But we got a bit of extra share on Shirley’s En Provence –
She pieced the back from her mom & dad’s shirts – so special!
Projects too little for the porch –
Shirley is making these wonderful monochrome placemats using the Wild & Goosey block from my Addicted to Scraps book. What a great idea! Those orange ones are just delicious!
We’ll see you back again next March.
Yesterday was spent finishing up laundry and getting things ready for today’s arrivals – Irene’s Sewciologists from Cotton To Quilts!
One day seems to just go into the next and I grab some stitching time where I can. Today’s forecast is 73 and sunny. but as bipolar season goes, we’ll be back in the 40s by Friday.
The quilters will be inside and quilting up their own kind of quilty storm, so we’ll ride it out together.
There are a lot of other things happening on the blog right now.
My friend Bruce Leonard’s newest Hadley Carroll novel Quilt City: Safety Second is joining the line up of other fun quilty mystery titles, continuing the story of Hadley’s adventures in Paducah Kentucky.
I’ll be giving away 3 copies of Quilt City: Safety Second so head to that post and get your entry in.
In case you missed it – this happened and is on-going!
My Waterford PDF pattern is now available in the Quiltville Store with an automatic 25% introductory discount good through 3/31/25.
It was inspired by a tile floor I photographed on my last trip to Ireland, when we took our Craftours group to the Waterford Crystal showroom in Waterford.
Waterford measures 80” X 80”, but is easily made smaller or larger just by changing the number of blocks.
And yes, there is a Gift-Away!
I’ll be drawing for two winners who will each receive a Waterford PDF pattern from me and a Notable Neutrals fabric roll from our friends at Cotton to Quilts
We’ll draw for those winners on 3/29/25. Whew!
The world is full of too much “Hurry up already!”
Some of the best things take a slower pace, but the end result will be so worth it!
Quilting taught me this is true! How about you?
Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone –
