26 July, 2016

Inside The Strawberry Patch

It might be HOT outside but there are cool things going on inside The Strawberry Patch. Our DIL (and Gregory and Lynnleigh) came over bright and early this morning with a lovely baby quilt top that she made for a friend last month; today was quilting day! Snowbird was ready. She attached a pretty sheet music print for the outer borders (the recipient's daddy is a musician) and used the same fabric for the back. She quilted a simple Loopdeloop pantograph with white thread, it was perfect! The crowning touch is the pieced, rainbow-hued scrappy binding. 
While Mama quilted Gregory stitched squares together into a tiny quilt with Nana's antique hand-crank machine. It performed beautifully. 
Lynnleigh chose to create a collage with fabric squares, paper and a glue stick. At noon Mr. Goodneedle grilled hamburgers outside for our lunch; a treat for everyone. By 3:00 PM the quilt was done and the young ones were packed up and on their way back home: "a good time was had by all"!
Life is Good!

9 comments:

Quiltdivajulie said...

So wonderful!

jude's page said...

Love your hand crank machine, and the quilt looks great too. While you are in the heat, it is a very cold winter here this year.

BarbCarol said...

Wonderful day!

Quilting Babcia said...

Sounds like a perfect day to me!

LizA. said...

what fun! Good job on that baby quilt too!

Panto Pam said...

What a fun, memory making day!!!

45th Parallel Quilter said...

A perfect day!! The grands and quilting!!

Janet O. said...

Looks like everyone had a good time--and I am with Gregory. I would have wanted to play with that machine, too. Would love to find one of those myself.

KaHolly said...

Oh, what fun! That little antique sewing machine is perfect for entertaining little boys! And I'll bet the collage came out as beautiful as the quilt did! XO