New Project

(Editor's note: If you came here by clicking the Vintage Thingies Thursday Link.. you got here by my mistake. Here it the correct link for today. But this is the post about the vintage owl pitcher. Sorry for the confusion!)

I am so loving all the retro owls I keep seeing in everyone's blogs and in Flickr albums. Tote bags and coffee mugs and brooches.. just about everything you can imagine with owls incorporated. I used to have a lot more owl stuff, but now I can only find one in my house. This little pitcher is one that my mother had on her kitchen shelf. He stood up there for as long as I can remember, and as long as any of my brothers can remember. So that probably dates him to the late 1940's. Remarkably he is one of the only pottery pieces that I have that isn't cracked or chipped or glued together in some place. Maybe that is why I prefer to collect fabric. Ok. So on a totally different subject. I never did get any more magazine pages scanned like I planned. But it suddenly dawned on me yesterday that if I was going to have a baby quilt made for a young couple who is expecting in June, I better get started. These sweet kids are good friends of our children and us as well. When they were married 2 years ago, my daughter and I put together a memory quilt for their gift. She did all the designing. Chose the pattern, fabric, and found the photos of them as children. She left the rest to me.. the scanning, printing the pictures on fabric, cutting, piecing, quilting and binding. It is stitched in the ditch. Not my favorite pattern at all. But we wanted the "logs" to stand out. And I just couldn't sew over top of those pretty pictures.
Today I got the cutting done for a baby quilt. I'm not sure how it's going to turn out. I'm kind of using a pattern from the April 2007 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting, but changing up the fabrics entirely. So it is kinda scary. After I got going, I realized that I am NOT going to be able to get this thing pieced in a day or two, even though it only measures 45" square. There are 68 of those little diamond-in-a-square pieces. The pattern actually calls for 81, but I switched the blocks around a little bit so I would need less. Here is what I have so far.
I made an "Every Iota" quilt for my daughter for Christmas and had some of that fabric left, plus a piece from my new Japanese fabric, the one with little mushrooms and squirrels..SO cute.. and a few others. They are expecting a little girl so the sashing is pink.

Until next time..