Wildflowers at Lyons Woods Forest Preserve on Monday.
Top: Yellow sweet clover, meadow rose, false Solomon's seal. Middle: Virginia waterleaf (also Shawnee salad), ox-eye daisy, dame's rocket. Bottom: Meadow buttercup, false white indigo, common nipplewort (really).
Cow parsnip grows taller than me and has colossal leaves.
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The schedule has been rearranged to accommodate some unexpected in-patient medical tests for my husband. So far things are okay and I hope he'll be home tomorrow.
In the studio: it's been a while since I made a waffle stamps quilt. I began with 2" strips cut to 8" or 9". I pieced sets of five, then sliced into 2" x 8" units. Sewing strips and then cutting them can be quicker than piecing hundreds of individual squares.
The pieced back uses up most of the green/white floral. The lavender/green is from a 4-yard piece that I'd been saving for.....for what? There's nearly 3 yards remaining.
Linking up with Peacock Party Finished or Not Friday
Love how you “dovetailed” the backing! Clever! Hope your husband passed all his tests and is back home! Thanks for the flower collage and accompanying names! Many are new to me!
ReplyDeleteThe waffle stamps quilt is beautiful! I love the scrappiness of it, and great tip on construction, too. Hope your husband sails through the tests and is home soon!
ReplyDeleteLove the wildflowers and waffles. I'll remember the clever way you made it if I feel like making one and don't have enough squares. Best wishes to your husband. Hope it's nothing serious and he is already on the mend.
ReplyDeleteLove your wildflower pics, but watch out for the hogwart, it looks the same but will hurt you badly!!
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy your wildflower photos -- so many I've never seen. Hope Stevens is doing better.
ReplyDeleteYou might be lonely but he'll have had lots of new faces to chat to. I feel the waffle stamps calling to me, my Linus group had a couple of bags of random fabric donated this month and their small storage area is full. I would be doing them a favour by using some of the odd and difficult fabrics, most things behave when you cut them small enough.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty wildflowers. Congrats on the finish, scrap quilts are the best.
ReplyDeleteThat waffle quilt is really cool ! Lovely flowers!
ReplyDeleteSure hope you husband is back home and all better!!
I love the backing on your quilt - you found a great way to marry the two fabrics together so they look intentional.
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