It’s a rainy gray day and our house is lamp-lit, so these colors aren’t true …
but I wanted to post this for St Patrick’s Day. Who knows, I might just replace this image with another when the weather is a little more agreeable.
Meantime, here’s a peek at the other side …
I love how the seams lay flat when they are whipstitched … or is that supposed to be “lie flat”? Where are Strunk and White when you need them?
One other thing that I keep forgetting to post … the Wildflower Center is collaborating with Cornell on a live Owl Cam of Athena, the great horned owl that has been nesting at the same spot for over ten years …
She’s looking a bit nap-ish at the moment, but if you take a peek in the evening she’s apt to be a little more active (last night we got to see her fly in after taking a break from brooding).
Getting cloth in the mail is like opening presents … and like a kid at Christmas, I have a bad habit of rushing in … washing the cloth, tearing it in strips, and stitching it before I ever think to take a picture.
Forgive me.
So here are the latest table cloth blocks made in part with recently arrived pieces of bought and gifted cloth.
I actually made two blocks inspired by Debbie Carroll’s First Light, which we bought in the summer of 2020 after receiving the Covid stimulus money from the federal government (being retired on pensions, we didn’t need need the money, so we thought investing in a local art gallery was a good way to get it back in circulation) …
I wasn’t thrilled with the first block, even though I had been waiting for this green linen from Stuart Moore …
I prefer the second block, which was enhanced by the addition of this wondrous logwood-dyed cloth from one-time neighbor Connie Akers …
In fact, I liked the logwood cloth so much that I also included it on this block that echoes our Gustave Baumann reproduction entitled Arroyo Chamisa purchased at the New Mexico Museum of Art during our first visit to Santa Fe …
By the way, in addition to the logwood, the blue/green strips and mottled yellow strips were also dyed and gifted by Connie. Lucky me!
Last, but not least, Deb Lacativa sent a wonderful trove of old quilting cotton batiks and prints that I pieced together in an homage to Deb G’s Good Enough Covid 19 quilt …
Which leads me to voice a plan of my own. As I wrote to Deb Lacativa about creating a place on the table cloth for her cloth, an idea came to me: how cool would it be to make a second table cloth with blocks inspired by Kindred Spirits with whom I’ve been blogging and commenting and emailing for the past ten years? And yes, of course I just happen to have another blank table cloth that would make a perfect base.
However, I do want to finish the current table cloth first. So I’ll hold onto the Good Enough block for when I start the next table cloth. Soon I hope …
When Ellis came over last week, she helped me lay out some of the finished blocks on the table cloth … which still has a ways to go (the cloth is this long because the table has another leaf that’s in storage at the moment) …
Over and over E said, “I like this side … this side looks better” … she’s a child after my own heart …
And then there’s this …
Don found it in our daughter‘s garden while he was weeding and brought it home for me.
And thanks to having a refreshed cloth stash, I’m back to making more blocks. This latest is inspired by a painting Don made last year (original post) …
If you look closely, you’ll see it has the cloth that Deb Sposa gifted me …
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