I finished the last of the 25 bear paw blocks for the Graduation quilt this week. I pinned the boy down Saturday before he attended the last graduation party, and we tried out some different design layouts.
Scattered around.
Dark blue, light blue, light green, dark green. He liked this one.
I think this one was light backgrounds to darker backgrounds but ended up in blue/green rows, which he did not like. Bear thought it was comfy though.
He had options of the setting triangles. I don't have enough of the ones I used in the blocks to make them, so found a dark beige in the stash and purchased a lighter one at Hobby Lobby when I finally got the correct last embroidery floss I needed for my current project. He liked the lighter one we placed the blocks on. I'll be cutting those big blocks today and begin getting this one to a top. It should be about 80 inches square, but I want to add a border around it as a frame. Not sure on the darker beige, or a green or blue yet. We will see how it looks.
A little stitching was added to the embroidery this week.
I have a new trip planned for mid week up to Vermont to see my parents and help out for a week. Dad landed in the hospital again Tuesday and was released yesterday. Fluid buildup in his heart. They did some scans and found things, so he has a biopsy on his kidney scheduled for next Friday. I'll be up there to bring them to that and help out a little before and after. My siblings have been doing a great job, but I figured I needed to go up and help. My kids are self-sufficient at 17+18 and have their plans in place for the next couple of weeks. Their Dad is here too, and they all should be fine while I am gone.
I'll bring the embroidery and Brimfield with me for hand work. I'm also considering breaking into a quilt kit of blue batiks that I might change into a drunkards path block and play with them. I do have that as an Accuquilt die... and have a bunch of travel opportunities to hand stitch it. I found 2 options in the kit bucket. I'll probably use the teeter totter batiks....and remember that pattern for a RSC quilt in the future.
I also found this cross stitch! This is from the early 90's!
Some pastel colors... if I want to play with RSC things this month. They look pastel like to me. Maybe some nine patches? Four patches?
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