Every once in a while I find myself working on all eight cylinders for an extended period of time and then have trouble coming down from the "flight or fight" state of mind. When that happened recently, and the sudden influx of several quilts all having the same "due date" caused this heightened energy excess, I looked around my Lurkim for some UFO's that needed finishing.
This first one was the result of finding a stack of 6" lavender and yellow squares on the "freebie" table at a guild meeting some years before. I found where they were hiding, put a yellow one on top of a lavender one, sewed 1/4" on either side of the diagonal, cut on the diagonal and had lovely two tone half square triangles to work with. I put them in a zig zag arrangement, sewed them together and put a border on the whole thing and named it "La-Z Days"
But! I still had some pent up energy, so I dug out a project I had started seven or eight years ago and grew tired of. For a loooooong time!
The focus fabric was a very busy and bold melange of desert flowers and cacti. I decided to meld a kaleidoscope design with a Dresden plate arrangement and came up with a series of quarter circles that were joined into full and half plates or medalions. The background is a pale, dull yellow.
The first border is the same as the background, and the outer border is the original fabric from which the matching wedges were gleaned. The name for this one was obvious: Desert Flower.
But that wasn't all! I actually made labels for these! I hated making labels with pigma pens, but I have discovered how to print them out on predecorated cloth.
These two quilts have been donated to my guild for their Bingo night prizes (Desert Flower) and their special charities (La-Z Days).
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