Vintage Topper for Kathy's Piano

The top is finished, I love it! Kathy does, too, I'm so glad.

 I took these photos at school, 

 

 ~ the pieced backing ~

and decided to share with you folks some of the paper rainbow mosaics we created this past week, 

celebrating March, Spring and St. Patrick's Day~

 ~ Washed and crinkly ~

Happy quilting!

 

"And I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." Luke 11:9,10

Sewing (When There are So Many Other Things to Do)

I've received all my block lotto winnings for the Liberated Checkerboard,

and look what happened as I laid them out in the bed...I couldn't help but see this rainbow taking place!

The day's work: rainbow trims, ready to make into 'quilt jelly'!
edited to add: Larry's Momma pushed all those colorful little confetti pieces of fabric into a jelly jar and called them "quilt jelly" for fun! If you stuff it full, and put a couple of layers of netting on the top, you can use it for a pin cushion, too. With those pretty rainbow scraps, I felt it was too happy to toss them. 

Today, I trimmed them all down to match, and sewed a few more to round out the quilt (actually, I made about 4 more RED ones, another blue green, and one more darker blue, too). Let's see how soon they get sewn together...!

While sewing these block lotto squares together this month, I saved the cut off half square triangles, I usually sew them as I go to help on the bias cut later, just easier. Now, how small is too small? Well, I know some of you girls do beautiful mini quilts, but I think this will be as little as it goes for me.

I used them as they were, should've trimmed them up neat but hey, they turned out kinda cool at 1/2 inch finished!

These were from the center of the flower, the yellows started out on the flower at 1 1/2 inch cut squares, but there were 4 "redeemed" squares from each flower.

On this year's quilt run in July, we found this sweet-gotta-have-it tiny box at Temecula Quilt Company, and it told me wanted to become a pin cushion :-}

So, I'm thinking...perfect!!!

God's Promise

It has been raining in California. Three days in the classroom with 26 kids, MAN! We have done every creative thing I can come up with.




After school, this was the view outside my classroom around 4:30 pm, too late to show it to my kids. That would've been neat to enjoy their enthusiasm! Or to share mine with them-!



My Larry said this looked like God used the palm trees for a paintbrush....

Genesis 9:13

"I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."

A rainbow is God's promise!
Pokey