The Life, Designs & Crafts of Marie Haigh
Life is what happens while I am busy planning my next knitting design.
Rather than sit on the sidelines, we rode in the Pottstown parade with the Bike Pottstown group and the Sunnybrooke Cycling club.
Dan and I rode our tandem bike and Elly rode in her yellow trailer.
Elly waved to the crowd and called out “Hello, Everybody!”, just like Grover would.
It was a lot of fun!
Hope your 4th of July is just as fun!
A lot of painting has taken place in the past few days.
Elly made several masterpieces over the weekend.
Her process was terribly messy. I was instructed to put a large glob of paint in the middle of the construction paper. Then, Elly dipped her hands into the paint, letting the excess ooze through her fingers. She swirled the paint all over the paper.
While waiting for me to change papers, she rubbed the paint into her hands like it was some colorful lotion.
It is no wonder that I have to replenish our washable paint supply every other month. Elly loves her paint.
Truly loves.
On Monday, I painted the 3rd wall in the living room. This time I used a roller and oh, boy, was it much faster. Up close you can tell that one wall was brushed on and one wall was rolled on, but if you are that close to my walls, you are likely a kid in time out. Nobody else is going to be studying my walls.
Only 1 wall left to paint before we finally get to rip up this carpet. I can’t hardly wait!
Yesterday, Elly painted an American flag with the Pottstown Moms Club.
I used artist tape to block out the stripes and star section as seen in this blog.
Perhaps we will take a break from painting these next few days. Or not since it seems to be raining yet again.
Every night after Elly went to sleep and every morning before she woke up, I snuck in a little quilting.
(Elly cuddling with her younger cousin).
The 14″ hoop I bought from Amazon was just perfect for snapping around a section of the quilt and popping it onto my lap.
The stitches are not tiny and perfect.
It was difficult getting the needle to sail through the typical 3 layers of a quilt plus the extra layer of the Dresden plate applique. I could only load 3 stitches at a time.
Each piece of the Dresden plate is quilted differently. Some pieces have almost no quilting as the fabric seemed too busy so I just quilted along the joining seam. Other pieces had a simply motif in the fabric that I quilted around the outline of.
Other pieces had a repeating diagonal running through the fabric that I happily followed.
Though I had originally planned to quilt each piece of the Dresden plate the same with a 1/4″ outline inside the stitching seam, it was more fun to base the quilting design on the fabric.
As before, quilting by hand was a joy. I just might start quilting more often than my current once-a-year pace.
The Life, Designs & Crafts of Marie Haigh 