Father's Day card featuring real wood accents, a chickadee digital and a little font greeting

My Dad was a carpenter most of his working life and wood reminds me of him.  I am fortunate that my DH is also a wood worker and saves me all the beautiful thin pieces which get trimmed off of his projects.  These little pieces are cedar.  I backed the thin wood with sticky label before trimming the pieces out so they would keep some integrity.  I cut a large brown panel to fit inside the large envelope I had chosen and then adhered the wood pieces to it using white glue in a fine tip applicator.  I immediately put it under weight (encyclopedias) so they would dry flat.  Once the panel was dry I added the front flop which is embossed with a wood grain embossing folder.   I scored a half inch from the top, folded over the flap and adhered it to my panel to cover the gap in the wood elements where I will adhere my insert.  I trimmed my flap to the edge of my panel.  I added a little laser printed digital image of chickadees (clker) which I watercoloured before adhering it to the flap.  I watercoloured the font greeting then added some faux stitching lines with my tracing wheel.  I layered it onto brown leaving a larger border on the bottom which I cut it with scalloped decorative scissors and then paper pierced the scallops with a push pin.  I mounted the greeting to my front flap overlapping my chickadee image.  I really like how it worked out.  I am every grateful that my Dad has been well through this Covid situation as he has underlying health issues.  Everyday is a blessing!!             Therese

Crumb squares - a double set of rainbow squares and two brown ones

I have finished up a few more crumb squares.  It has taken several weeks working on and off to get them done but they are totally fun to make!!!  I simply pull out a large ziploc of scraps and use what is there to make up squares.  Here is a tutorial if you are new to Crumb Quilting.  I have a bag for each colour and so the supplies are all right at hand.  

I have made up two of each colour - brown, green, blue, purple, red, orange and yellow.  Not sure how they will be incorporated into quilts but I am swapping 10"crumb square for scraps with my sister, Sylvia so some will likely end up in her quilts.  

I will be making some other colours - peach, teal, brights, black with colour, golden yellow, etc.  I may do some exploring on line and see about incorporating many colours into one square. I am sure there are some that are doing that as well.  Might be easier to incorporate into a quilt that way.  We shall see!!

Therese

Rainbow hearts quilt

I have finally finished my rainbow hearts quilt.  I added a turquoise backing and used a cotton flannel sheet as batting.  I am really happy with how it turned out and the turquoise is really a good complement to the bright colours in the top of the quilt.  It measures 42" x 63" and I will be sending it off to the Linus Project via my sister.  She has several to deliver to them as well and will simply add mine to hers.   Check out the squares here.

I will certainly be doing squares of hand quilting for adding to quilts in the future.  I might consider larger squares but in the end I used these 4" x4" squares because they are precut.  I will consider sewing four of the same together to make a larger square but that may limit my colour selection.  I could also mix them up and use full squares for any colour which I am missing pieced ones.  

So totally fun!!!!!

Therese