A Dragon of a Quilt

It's time for me to make a quilt entirely on my sewing machine -- piecing, quilting, and binding with my Singer. I have done a few small pieces like mug rugs, pot holders and place mats on the machine, but this will be the first acrual quilt.

Last year I purchased a bundle of eight fat quarters featuring dragons and castles at the county quilt show, and I think they'd make a marvelous little quilt for my nephew's dog.

For the pattern I'm going to rely on my trusty favorite: Yellow Brick Road by Atkinson Designs. I love this pattern and it makes some really beautiful quilts. It's also all rectangles, which will not be difficult for me to quilt on the machine (I hope.)

The baby size quilt of this pattern calls for six fat quarters, so I removed two that were print repeats in different colors, leaving me with these. The first step is pressing, cutting and piecing, so stay tuned to find out how I do with that.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

In the Kitchen Garden

Our strawberries are taking over the kitchen garden, but I don't mind. This week I want to make some strawberry banana nice cream (a vegan version of ice cream) and maybe a chocolate cake with berries and cream for the topping. There's thyme in the garden now, too, which I'll dry and jar for cooking along with the chives and the oregano. Next we'll plant cucumbers, as I use a ton of those in our salads and for snacks.

Rayen

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