This quilt block shows a bunch of flowers. Five tulip looking flowers extend upwards from a jagged piece of green fabric made to look like grass. The stalks of the flowers are pen and stitching. The leaves that point upwards, two for each flower on each side are a darker green with a light green stitching outline. The tops of the flowers, the bulbs, are a bright orange at the base, with a yellow part sticking out the top, much like a tulip.

Block-A-Day 200 – The Tulips

Tina July 19, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I have a little story about tulips this year at our house. Farmhand 1 planted and grew some very beautiful red and yellow tulips. While they were in full bloom Farmhand 4 picked them. Without permission.

This quilt block shows a variety of colors of hollyhocks. The stalks of the flowers are green stitches, while the bodies of the flowers are different colored fabrics: orange, maroon, and yellow. One flowe rbody has pen marks for the pistles, and on that flower there is drawn a beautiful hummingbird. The hummingbird is drawn with different color pens with its wings out.

Block-A-Day 195 – Hollyhock Hummingbirds

Tina July 14, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When you live in a windy place it’s hard to grow hollyhocks. I think they are so pretty and showy despite their poisonous nature. However, today’s star is the hummingbird. We have some fun facts about our little feathered friends.

This quilt block shows flowers in a row of varying heights, and above them a wandering bee. The bee's trail is a black stitching, and the bee itself is made of yellow and white fabric. Stripes are penned in for the bee's appearance. The flowers are straight stalks of stitching with some dark green leaves poking out the side. At the top of each stalk is an eye shaped piece of orange fabric, and in the center of those eyes is a small black two holed button. This really makes them look like eyes!

Block-A-Day 192 – Bzzzzzz

Tina July 11, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I learned 91 foods that are consumed by humans need to be non wind pollinated. That means without the bee to play matchmaker between the male and female plants our diets would be very bleak indeed.

This block shows a brown garden fork sticking in the ground. It's like a pitch fork but it's completely brown and made of wood. It's fairly large. On top of the fork is a yellow singing bird. Next to the fork are two beautiful plans, drawn by green pen and stitching. Each flower has bulbs on the ends, one in a drooping fashion that are red, and the other along the stalk going up that are pink. This is all against a blue background.

Block-a-Day 185 – Garden Compost & Mulch

Tina July 4, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

An amazing quilter, she once told me if she had to choose between quilting and gardening she would choose gardening. One of her best ongoing projects is her compost pile. She loves her compost pile.

This quilt block shows Shasta daisies, three of them from left to right. The left daisy and right daisy are shorter and sit under the center taller daisy. Each one has a green stem with leaves. The top of each flower has a yellow center, and white petals.

Block-A-Day 180 – He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Tina June 29, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

It was surrounded by sidewalk on all sides so I thought it would be a safe place to plant Shasta daisies. They are hardy and make a showy display. … I loved how they looked but hated how they smelled.

Block-A-Day 176 – Apollo And Clytie

Tina June 25, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Sunflowers were used as far back as 1000 B.C. by native americans. They were cultivated as a food source. The seeds, high in calcium, were crushed to make flour for bread. Ground to make a peanut butter like paste and the oil expressed for cooking and use on skin and hair.