Patience and the Flying Geese Frenzy

Today I had an opportunity to practice patience. I can't say that I enjoyed it but perhaps I needed the reminder! I was piecing together 5" charms to make a lap quilt. No sooner than I realized I could probably do the entire top today I discovered that I needed fabric for the sashing.

I confess I found this quite annoying. I was really in the mood to get this done and, even better, my kids were happily amusing themselves so I had the free time.

I ended up making lemonade from lemons. I used the time to play with a special quilting ruler I bought a few weeks ago. It's a Quilt in A Day Flying Geese ruler.

I've never made a flying geese unit before. I have to tell you this little ruler makes things a snap. Of course, I watched the flying geese tutorial here and that helped a lot.

I'm proud of myself and very pleased with my practice units.

Here you can see the unit before and after. Not too shabby, eh?

A present for lil ole me!

Just have to share a photo of a lovely wall hanging Lorraine gave me last night.

She said that I had inspired her and showed me this mini-quilt. I loved it immediately, of course, and UNICEF popped into my mind. She reminded me of the UNICEF card I had given her for Christmas. That's when I realized she had worked from the front of the card and made the image with fabric.

I was suitably impressed. I didn't reach for it. I just looked at it. That's when she told me she made it for me. I was a bit surprised. I couldn't imagine what I would have done to deserve such a beautiful gift. Turns out she was thanking me for getting her back into quilting last summer.

How lucky am I? I call a friend and ask her to help me learn to quilt. She helps me get started, I learn a lot and we join a guild together. Then, I get such a lovely gift for basically asking for a favor! LOL

If only all of life was so easy, and so beautiful.

Here are the photos together so you can see how nicely she reproduced the design. Notice how the card has various shades of blue and so does the wall hanging. The dove itself is quite impressive. I love how intricate it is, with feathers that look like the dove is in flight.













They say quilters are great piecemakers. I think we can also be great peacemakers.

Thank you again and again Lorraine.