Grandson's Outer Space quilt

I made 2 of these for 2 grandsons that live in Dundee , the same year that I painted their rooms, I made the quilts to match ,both are just alike except one has a different color boarder so they can tell them apart .
 I also entered them in the quilt show along with the ones I made the girls .
 The pictures of the boys room is in an earlier post under murals .

Flowers

I have been working in the yard the last few days and just this morning I noticed how full the begonia plant was (top photo) the flowers are really blooming  this year , I decided to go ahead and cut some to root , these begonias always come back out so good .I wanted to root some for the pastors wife and daughter,so I have extras for them and also enough for 2 hanging pots for my garden area as well .

Working in the yard sure does take time and is starting to look good out there ,I notice too that some of my Hibiscus are  coming back and the one shown was another favorite .

My vegetable garden is doing really good too, I cannot belive all the blooms on the squash plants ,so far I have picked about 8 and there are 2 plants with at least 6 squash on them , Tomatoes are doing good as well as the banana peppers , onions  seem to be really slow .I have enough squash  to cook for supper tonight  , love them smother fried with onions !

Tiered Pots

My sister Tina started this last summer ,I think she saw this somewhere else and decided to make one  . Mom and I loved it so much we both made one for ourselves ,except we did not use the bricks around the bottom ,Mom's is on her patio ,mine is in front between the evergreen trees .Tina's plants are beautiful , Mom and I bought a few and then used  what we could find at home  , I took a picture of mine but forgot to load it to the blog .Most of the plants are still here ,not sure about Mom's & Tina's .I love the way Tina's hang over the side.

Fall color Table top

One day I took my sister with me to HeartFelt Quilt Shop just so she could see all the beautiful fabrics and quilts ,we saw a table top hanging from the wall and fell in love with the pattern it was Fall fabrics with Christmas on the back, we noticed that they had a pattern to sell ,but I thought I could make it without the pattern .

Sunsets- Quilt idea or Painting ?

I love Sunsets ! I took these thinking it sure would make a beautiful painting or quilt . I am amazed at how fast the sunsets change and you have to stay right there to see it all, sometimes I will take a picture and go back inside just to look out and it is prettier than the last one !

Very Old Blocks -Grandma Ely's

Mom had these blocks ,I am not sure but if I remember right she told me they were started by Grandma Ely , there are a few that look like the were put together by hand and the rest by machine , she aske me if I was interested in putting it together .I told her I would see what I could do .

So now I have to decide on how I would like it to look finished ,there are  5 panels and 1 extra block, I found a pretty fabric that is almost the same shade of the blue and with pink flowers, the farbric is about the same texture and weight as the blocks ,so I can't decide if I want to make a small lap quilt with sashing in between or take the blocks apart and make a bigger quilt with sashing or should I make more blocks of the flowers and find something else for the boarder .........I probably could wait until go I go back to Mom's and let her decide but I am interested in everyone else opinion.

The fabric of the pink & blue seem to be in really good shape and since it was started back when Grandma Ely was still alive ,they have to be anywhere's from 56 to 65 yrs old !If they are older than that I would be afraid to work with it .   :-)

Old Barn

Several years ago when my nephew was still in collage ,he came home for a visit while I was at mom's .We both agreed to get together and paint the same object and we decided on the Old Barn or Shed  in his folks yard , I am thinking the barn is a good 100 yrs old , the photo of it is the front of the barn and the painting is the back of it . as you can see the barn is falling apart .I hope they can fix it as I hate to see old buildings being tore down.

Also I used the drawing -painting on my header for this blog .We used pencil and watercolor paint , then later on I added the black ink for detail work .I don't know what Jason did with his but his painting was different from mine as all artist never paint the same way .