Bird's Nest Quilt

This UFO has been sitting in my closet for at least a hundred years. I made it in a class I took. Then I machine quilted it. When I had no idea what I was doing and it was really bad. So I set it aside. For a long time. I've pulled it out and am picking out all that bad quilting. I will either do it again myself or grow a brain and have the quilter do it for me.

Prairie Schooler - Home Sweet Home

This piece is stitched on Tula, 10 count, using Caron "Watercolors" fibers. I completely changed the colorway from the original Booklet 131, "Home Words" by Prairie Schooler. This will be framed and hang over the main doorway out of my main room. I first did this Tula/Watercolors switcheroo on the PS "Good St. Nick". Watercolors have that same overdyed look that's so popular now and a silky sheen too. I had to use the Tula to get a weave large enough to accomodate the thicker strand of Watercolors though.

Prairie Schooler - Red Sky

This also from the "Weatherwise" booklet, number 145. I changed the linen from lambswool to blue. I did change the wording slightly. My father was a WWII Navy man and taught it to me this way when I was very young. It would have driven me crazy to have it any other way. There are three more to do waiting in my cabinet drawer - Booklet 144 "A Farmer's Almanac" and Booklet 139 "Rain, Rain, Go Away". They are all being done on blue linen. I will then frame them all in the same black frames. I have a long, narrow window over my front door and plan to hang the series over that.

Prairie Schooler - Sunshiny Shower

This piece is from the Prairie Schooler "Weatherwise" booklet, number 145.

Prairie Schooler - March

This Prairie Schooler is the second one in the "Daffodils" book, number 146. Again, changed the linen color from lambswool to blue, but stitched with DMC.