Saturday Stories - Falling Blossoms 07-09-16

Where Diane grew up there were many fruit trees in the neighborhood and nobody minded if the kids helped themselves.  Old fashioned apples and cherries, pears and apricots thrived, along with every kind of berry and nut that would grow in western Oregon.  She was a tree climber and always thought the best fruit grew at the very top of the tree.  She missed her step once and fell from half way up the Queen Anne cherry tree and knocked the wind out of herself.  Scary, but not the only time. 

One memory she carries close to her heart is the huge cherry tree beside the bus stop.  It was a black cherry, maybe a Bing, but best of all it had millions of white blossoms which would fall like snow when the wind shook the branches.  The breeze would gather the petals into loops and swirls that drifted along the curbside and swarmed across the street.  It was almost better to miss the bus and be late to school, so she could watch the dancing petals.

The orchard lots are gone now and few of the fruit trees remain, they would probably be too old to bear fruit anyway.  But the memories remain. 

 

Almond blossoms along I-5 in central valley  2013

Friday Feet 07-08-16

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Another Del's quilts 07-07-16

Since I haven't kept a list of my own quilts I have posted I suppose I will be reposting some.  Sorry!

 

This one is from the Journal Quilt Project - second year, and was a stretch for me.  The area that goes across the middle is sort of zig-zag stitching with metallic thread.  The five rectangles are cut from the holograms from used credit cards.  It was completely made up as I went along, something I had never done before.  I always had an idea before I started any project.  I have done some spontaneous pieces since 2002, but it isn't my favorite way to work.  I'm a plan ahead sort of gal.

 

 

"Marsh Morning"  Del Thomas  2002  8-1/2"W x 11"L

Commercial and hand-dyed cottons, cotton batting, cotton thread, metallic thread, and plastic rectangles.

Machine pieced and quilted.

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Wordless Wednesday 07-06-16

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Linda Colsh quilt from TCQC 07-03-16

When I started  posting images of the TCQC quilts, way back in 2008, this was one of the first that I showed.   It is a favorite of mine and one of a number of Linda Colsh's quilts in the Collection.  Check out the link at the bottom of the page to see what I said eight years ago.

"Ewe Alone"  Linda Colsh 2007  26"square

Cotton fabric, batt, thread.  SO many different techniques.

 

DETAIL  below

 

http://delquilts.blogspot.com/2008/09/quilts-from-tcqc-09-21-08.html

 

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