Happy Birthday to ME
Happy Birthday dear ME
Happy Birthday to ME!!!
Today was also my Grandmother Campbell's Birthday and for two whole days I will be FOUR years older than my darling and favorite brother, Thomas. Today I am wearing one of Grandma's rings. It's very delicate so I don't wear it more than once or twice a year. It has our birthstone (garnet) and an opal.
Back in December when I started reading Julie's blog at http://quiltjewelry.blogspot.com/ I printed out a page of her hexie pendants and told Mom that was what I wanted for my Bday. I never thought I would get one because she asked me why I didn't want it for Christmas (too late to submit request as far as I was concerned) and what if she had already bought my Bday gift. After Christmas I said something about Bday/gifts and she said she wrapped "everything" for Christmas (we often got bigger gifts that were half Xmas/Birthday as kids). BUT, lo and behold I went to Mom and Dad's for Bday dinner Sunday and there was a large box. It was mostly stuffed with garbage bags but on the bottom was a hexie pendant in my favorites of purple/green/gold!!! Whew - now I don't to get the hexie tattoo we were joking about ;)I've also taken to reading Kathleen's blog at http://sentimentalquilter.blogspot.com/ after I bought one of her books. A lot of her quilts (she has 4 books) are doll quilts and for 2012 she is doing a doll quilt-a-long. Each month she will pick a doll quilt and then we have a chore to do each week so that by the end of the month we should have finished it. Week #1 is picking fabric, #2 is piecing the blocks, #3 is adding sashing and borders and #4 is quilting and binding.
This 17" quilt top was pretty much from stash, including all the block pieces from my strip bins. I have enough of the border and sashing fabrics to use for the binding - which would you choose? The back will probably be a FQ out of my stash as well and I'm thinking of machine quilting fans on the quilt for that old timey feel.
♪♫ Happy birthday ♪ to YOU! ♫♪
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♪♫ Happy birthday dear ♪ Sarah!!!! ♫♪
♫♪ Happy ♪ birthday ♪ to ♪ YOU!!! ♪♫
♪♫ And many more . . . !!!!! :)
I love your ring ... opal is my birthstone and garnet is one of my favorite birthday gemstones outside my own. Yay!
I like the lighter fabric you used for sashing as your binding; I like contrast. Have a GREAT day!!!! :)
Oh and I meant to say that the Hexie pendant is darling ... and looks even more painstaking to make than your string blocks. LOL! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Sarah, whenever it was!
ReplyDeleteI love your grandmother's ring. It is beautiful--I love how vintage it looks!
I'm thrilled that you got a hexie pendant. I hinted that I wanted one for Christmas as a key chain, but no one took the hint. When I won her giveaway last year, I loved the pin so much I eventually bought two more. : )
It will be fun to see your doll quilt each month. Fun idea, but I am going to stick to the little quilt patterns I bought from Lori Smith. I need to remember I bought them to make them, not just store them. But I know I won't get one made each month!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!
ReplyDeleteMy Dads birthday was the 16th.
The hexie pendant is gorgeous too.
A hexie tattoo...you wild thing !!Lol.
Happy Birthday Sarah! Your grandmother's ring is beautiful and I love, love the hexie pendant! I have visited that site and they are so neat! Enjoy!
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