Friday, April 10, 2015

#26: The Star That Took Five Months To Make

I haven't posted in a hundred million years I know!  Well I have a good reason.  its because this star was the hardest star anyone could ever imagine making... um.. I was busy with some other things. Like eating. sleeping. Christmas, sleeping, eating.  Anyway I finished a star and have posted a picture so all of you can ooo and ahhh over its stunning beauty.  That's its real color, posing above on some not yet uncurled rhubarb that's bursting out of the ground practically overnite.

one minute earlier, and only inches away from the rhubarb, I tried taking a photo of the star with some daffoduls.  the daffodils look great, but the star's color was all wrong. I took the photo several times but still the fabric looked very blue..
see what I mean?  weird.


I did do a couple other things these past few months, and I cant give away every exciting detail but here are a few highlights:

Found an adorable doll bed plan at anawhite.com (lower left).  Hat & I made 2 beds (center) for the 2 granddaughters ("G" top left, "A" lower right) for Christmas.  I winged the mattresses & pillows and was pleased with how they turned out.  Also (not shown) made fitted sheets & pillowcases for easier cleaning.  Totally in love with a doll quilt I saw at quiltville.blogspot.com by Bonnie Hunter (top right).  It was nice to give something handmade for Christmas.  Even nicer that Hat & I worked on them together.  <3


January & February Hat went ice fishing (a lot).  He was even featured in a photo spread in the paper, made the front page.  I made homemade potato bread from scratch (a first), and a lattice top (also a first) pie from the last of cherries we picked & froze last summer.  No paparazzi for me so i'm covering it here ;)   Annnd one of Hat's ice fishing buddies fell through the ice and was then rescued... which also made the local paper including another photo spread.  Hat ice fishing photo plus Rescue photo (both above) credit thestarpress.com

Linking up with Jessica at LIfeUnderQuilts BlogSpot and her Star Count group. 
 





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5 comments:

  1. PamelaApril 11, 2015 at 4:28 PM

    Nice fabric in this star - in green or blue!

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  2. ChristaApril 12, 2015 at 4:19 PM

    Yes nice star! And sounds like an exciting winter!

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  3. wish2stitchMay 1, 2015 at 9:52 PM

    I love your stars. I am making a quilt with the same star pattern. It's fun, but like you, I do it in fits and bursts. Life does get in the way doesn't it?

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  4. Lisa J.May 17, 2015 at 1:26 PM

    Just came across this star. Love it. I'm making the same stars...don't know how I missed this at the link up.

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  5. AllisonJune 5, 2015 at 2:48 AM

    Love the star and the fabric! Can totally understand how busy life gets!! Keep up the stitching! I can 't wait to finish my GFG quilt so I can work on some stars :)

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