Decision and new project.....plus blogiversary.......
Thanks for all of the votes and suggestions yesterday. I have decided this is the way the quilt will be finished. Like I mentioned yesterday I have enough of the gray fabric already cut into strips to make all new alternate blocks so it wasn't a decision of how to fix the blocks that were already sewn. In the end I just didn't want to come up with a quilting design for the alternate plain blocks and this version will be easy to quilt. I will be able to cut 2 sashing strips from each of the alternate blocks and If I decide to do any unpicking I could salvage 2 more strips from the side strips. I have plenty of fabric left to finish this quilt into a decent size (or 2 of smaller size).
I have finally started on my postage stamp quilt. Here is the inspiration quilt on Lynn's blog. She made 81 blocks. I'm not sure I can stick with it long enough to make that many so I'll just make a few every week and eventually decide I'm done and ready to sew them together. Today is my 12th blogiversary -- I started this blog on July 4, 2007. There have been 4591 posts before today and over 6 million page views. AND.....I'm still having fun taking the photos and writing the posts. I enjoy the world wide contact with so many people with similar interests. Comments let me know you are still there reading my blog. I would still write it even if no one commented but it is a bonus hearing from you.
Congratulations on 12 yrs. of blogging. I follow you with great interest in your projects, Don't comment much, but read every day. Love your work. So bright & very precise. Love the pics of your garden too. My fav is scrap quilting. Someday I will do a postage stamp quilt to, Right now have to many others clamoring to be made. Betty
Happy blogiversary!! Comments are one of the best perks, but sadly commenters have become almost a thing of the past! I try to write one on several blogs a day... that I read. Not every day... tho... Just not enough time for that. Good luck on that postage stamp quilt!!! I am sewing vicariously. Machines are all packed up now... as is most everything related to quilting and sewing.
Wow, what a milestone Wanda! I think I have read every blog since the Fall of 2011 when I found you. Thank you for the treasure of photos, ideas, tips, explanations, challenges, and consistency. You have made my life richer and wider. Congratulations on this blog! I know how much energy you put into it. Look forward to seeing how the postage stamp quilt goes. I have too many unfinished projects to start another right now.
Congrats on the anniversary. And thanks for being such a grand source of information, and inspiration. You are such a mentor to all of us...like a Grand Dame of England....the ladies of class who always delight us with their talent and words.
Your postage stamp blocks are wonderful. I’m going to do one as well. I’m wondering if you are doing the twirling seams thing? It makes sense but I find it an annoying slow down. If you are doing it, maybe I’ll give it another chance.
You know I've been following you since the beginning! I've been blogging since November 2006 and I don't think I could stop. It's just part of my day now. I'm glad we've gotten to meet too!
Wanda, Thank you for your exuberant sharing for 12 years--sewing, plants, baking, etc!!!! We are all looking forward to more of your daily posts. Ardis Ann in TX
Happy blogiversary, Wanda! Can't wait to see your progress in person. You keep us all anxious for the next post. Thanks for sharing all that you do! Always my first stop in the morning. :)
Happy Blogiversary Wanda! I check in with you every morning to see your quilts and your gardens and you. Thank you for sharing and making my morning brighter.
I did not know your first blog was 7/4/07 until today. You chose a perfect day to begin and to celebrate every year. Love your postage stamp blocks. I did check out your inspiration quilt, and sure can see why you decided to design one too. And your lost treasure piece is so appealing.
I read your blog every morning here in Australia. I just love your bright scrappy quilts and your productivity amazes me! I really enjoy your garden snippets too. Thank you Wanda.
Well done on surviving 12 years of blogging. I wonder how many words you've actually typed and photo's you've shared. I read your blog posts every day (even though I don't always comment) and you've inspired me with your designs and colour selections and posts about your garden flowers. Your postage stamp blocks look pretty and colourful - hopefully you'll make enough to create a quilt :)
You bet I read your blog! I even like images of plants you feature from time to time. Your style is so unique with the title of your blog summing it all up!
Being on the west coast I read your blog every night before bed. Plus, I've bought two of your quilt tops that spoke to me, even though I "could" have made them myself. I hope you stay healthy and blogging for many more years.
English reader here too. I do enjoy reading your posts - your colours are sometimes outside my own comfort zone, so I do love to see the beauties that you produce. I still think my favourite one was your green Lady of the Lake. I don't comment all the time though. I love flowers and now have a large vegetable section - haymaking at the moment while the weather holds. I did bring some plants from my old home - leaving them in the care of my mother - and she managed to kill most of them, even the orchids indoors - she cooked them in her conservatory when they like light but no sun! Ah well never mind. But a few are fine and I have brought them here now. The new land is rather time consuming at the moment until we get it all under control. When it rains, then indoors and sewing time. In the meantime it's nice to see your quilts and flowers when I'm not outside or sewing! Thank you.
Oh my, Happy Blog Anniversary to you! What a joy you bring to so many of us when we get a peek into your creative and fruitful life! The plants, the flowers, the vegetables and most importantly, the fabrics and what you create! Thanks for sharing so much, even if I don’t reply daily, I look forward to a sneak peek when I have my morning coffe! Bravo to you my dear!!!
Congratulations on your 12 Years! I'm loving the postage stamp blocks. I am planning to make my own stamp quilt with a mini charms I have bought over the years. I just dumped them all in a basket and need to start making blocks.
I'm not sure when I started following you, and I wish I had time to go back to the beginning of the blog, but I do periodically go back to follow a particular design or series. I love your use of color and the wide variety of patterns you bring to life. And the garden photos are fun as well. Here's to many more years. Pat
Congratulations on your 12 years Wanda! Your blog has given me such a lot of pleasure and inspiration since I first found it around 7 years ago! These squares are tiny for the postage stamp squares are tiny at 1" finished but looking wonderful.
I love reading your blog.I'm in England and an embroiderer with ambitions to quilt but a little daunted at the prospect.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 12 yrs. of blogging. I follow you with great interest in your projects, Don't comment much, but read every day. Love your work. So bright & very precise. Love the pics of your garden too. My fav is scrap quilting. Someday I will do a postage stamp quilt to, Right now have to many others clamoring to be made.
ReplyDeleteBetty
Happy blogversary! Your blog is the first one I read every day. I LOVE color and your posts continuously spark my creativity. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing both your quilts and your garden. Keep letting us know what's going on in your life!
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary!! Comments are one of the best perks, but sadly commenters have become almost a thing of the past! I try to write one on several blogs a day... that I read. Not every day... tho... Just not enough time for that. Good luck on that postage stamp quilt!!! I am sewing vicariously. Machines are all packed up now... as is most everything related to quilting and sewing.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a milestone Wanda! I think I have read every blog since the Fall of 2011 when I found you. Thank you for the treasure of photos, ideas, tips, explanations, challenges, and consistency. You have made my life richer and wider. Congratulations on this blog! I know how much energy you put into it.
ReplyDeleteLook forward to seeing how the postage stamp quilt goes. I have too many unfinished projects to start another right now.
Congratulations on such a successful blog history. You continue to be a inspiration to so many of us. Please keep on doing what you do so well!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the anniversary. And thanks for being such a grand source of information, and inspiration. You are such a mentor to all of us...like a Grand Dame of England....the ladies of class who always delight us with their talent and words.
ReplyDeleteI started to blog just a couple months before you and found you shortly after you started to blog I think. Your color has been inspirational
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog. You are so inspiring. Thank you and happy bog anniversary!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiversary! I love the postage stamp blocks so far. I love the blog and especially the photos. Happy 4th of July!
ReplyDeleteHappy 12th. We are so grateful for your blog. It’s always interesting!
ReplyDeleteI am planning for one of the postage stamp projects, too! Solids and scraps - maybe for RSC next year.
ReplyDeleteAND a very happy blogiversary to you! I read every post and have learned so much from your sharing.
Your postage stamp blocks are wonderful. I’m going to do one as well. I’m wondering if you are doing the twirling seams thing? It makes sense but I find it an annoying slow down. If you are doing it, maybe I’ll give it another chance.
ReplyDeleteAnd I do love your blog- so inspiring!
You know I've been following you since the beginning! I've been blogging since November 2006 and I don't think I could stop. It's just part of my day now. I'm glad we've gotten to meet too!
ReplyDeleteWanda, Thank you for your exuberant sharing for 12 years--sewing, plants, baking, etc!!!! We are all looking forward to more of your daily posts.
ReplyDeleteArdis Ann in TX
I continue to love your blog. Great inspiration for use of color and design. Thank you. Here's to another 12!
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary, Wanda! Can't wait to see your progress in person. You keep us all anxious for the next post. Thanks for sharing all that you do! Always my first stop in the morning. :)
ReplyDeleteI am a newbie to your blog and love the quilts and what is going on in the garden.
ReplyDeleteElana
Happy Blogiversary Wanda! I check in with you every morning to see your quilts and your gardens and you. Thank you for sharing and making my morning brighter.
ReplyDeleteI still read your blog! I enjoy seeing what you create.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you started your blog. I find inspiration from both the quilts you create and the gardens you tend! Happy Blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteI did not know your first blog was 7/4/07 until today. You chose a perfect day to begin and to celebrate every year. Love your postage stamp blocks. I did check out your inspiration quilt, and sure can see why you decided to design one too. And your lost treasure piece is so appealing.
ReplyDeleteJJM
Congratulations on 12 years.
ReplyDeleteGa. USA Still reading
ReplyDeleteI read your fabulous blog in Tennessee.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the anniversary! Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiverary!! I enjoy reading it every day - ;))
ReplyDeleteMany congratulations on your 12th blog birthday. I love to read what you are making and you are such an inspiration to all your many readers.
ReplyDeleteI read your blog every morning here in Australia. I just love your bright scrappy quilts and your productivity amazes me! I really enjoy your garden snippets too. Thank you Wanda.
ReplyDeleteWell done on surviving 12 years of blogging. I wonder how many words you've actually typed and photo's you've shared. I read your blog posts every day (even though I don't always comment) and you've inspired me with your designs and colour selections and posts about your garden flowers. Your postage stamp blocks look pretty and colourful - hopefully you'll make enough to create a quilt :)
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog!!! Happy Anniversary on 12th year of blogging.
ReplyDeleteYou bet I read your blog! I even like images of plants you feature from time to time.
ReplyDeleteYour style is so unique with the title of your blog summing it all up!
Your blog lives up to its name. Keep the posts coming. I enjoy them all.
ReplyDeleteBeing on the west coast I read your blog every night before bed. Plus, I've bought two of your quilt tops that spoke to me, even though I "could" have made them myself. I hope you stay healthy and blogging for many more years.
ReplyDeleteEnglish reader here too. I do enjoy reading your posts - your colours are sometimes outside my own comfort zone, so I do love to see the beauties that you produce. I still think my favourite one was your green Lady of the Lake.
ReplyDeleteI don't comment all the time though. I love flowers and now have a large vegetable section - haymaking at the moment while the weather holds. I did bring some plants from my old home - leaving them in the care of my mother - and she managed to kill most of them, even the orchids indoors - she cooked them in her conservatory when they like light but no sun! Ah well never mind. But a few are fine and I have brought them here now. The new land is rather time consuming at the moment until we get it all under control. When it rains, then indoors and sewing time. In the meantime it's nice to see your quilts and flowers when I'm not outside or sewing! Thank you.
Oh my, Happy Blog Anniversary to you! What a joy you bring to so many of us when we get a peek into your creative and fruitful life! The plants, the flowers, the vegetables and most importantly, the fabrics and what you create! Thanks for sharing so much, even if I don’t reply daily, I look forward to a sneak peek when I have my morning coffe! Bravo to you my dear!!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 12 Years! I'm loving the postage stamp blocks. I am planning to make my own stamp quilt with a mini charms I have bought over the years. I just dumped them all in a basket and need to start making blocks.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to your next 12 years!
I'm not sure when I started following you, and I wish I had time to go back to the beginning of the blog, but I do periodically go back to follow a particular design or series. I love your use of color and the wide variety of patterns you bring to life. And the garden photos are fun as well. Here's to many more years.
ReplyDeletePat
Congratulations on your 12 years Wanda! Your blog has given me such a lot of pleasure and inspiration since I first found it around 7 years ago! These squares are tiny for the postage stamp squares are tiny at 1" finished but looking wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog...filled with color, inspiration and tutorials!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the time to share your life.