Week 40

No outside photo today but I have things bloomington inside. :)

Week 38 and Week 39

It seems like all I'm doing anymore is making GFG flowers. Looks can be decieving though! I have been working on a baby quilt for some friends. The top is finished and it's layered. Now I just have to find some time to quilt it. I can't wait to finish and send it off to Baby Ryleigh and then post photos for you to enjoy. I love how it turned out! In the meantime, enjoy my latest two flowers.

Week 36

Another flower for the week. I'm a bit behind in posting though so I didn't join One Flower Wednesday.This photo was taken outside a hospital. My mom had knee surgery and I spent three days with her. (Which is why I didn't get my flower posted in time.) I was able to finish another flower after this one but I'm waiting to post that next week since I have a very busy couple of days coming up.

Week 35

It's One Flower Wednesday! I didn't have time to go outside to photograph this week (plus it's been overcast for the last four days!) so I placed the flower among the stars. Really, it's on top of my Dancing Star quilt. It's a pretty good background, if I do say so myself. Check out the link to Karen's blog to see other hexagon flowers.

Week 34

It's One Flower Wednesday time again! Head over to Karen's blog, Journey of a Quilter, to see more beautiful flowers.

I think this flower looks nice against the color of the grass. The photo was taken just outside my office. I thought about using my own grass as a the setting but since I don't really have grass yet - just weeds - I held off. I want the flower to look pretty, not grungy!


We're headed to the Lake for the weekend. Hopefully I'll do some sewing during the 3 hour car ride because I plan to read, lay in the sun, take pontoon rides, and hang out in the water while we're there. I have the petals completed for my next flower. Now I just need to sew them together.

Weeks 32 and 33

Somehow, I've messed up my flower posting. I posted one flower twice and found a few flowers that were never posted. This is all happened during our move to the new house and week and half of vacation. I think I'm finally on track again!

This photo was taken among the PETUNIA's on campus.


As a quilter, I draw inspiration from all around me. I keep a notebook of ideas, color schemes and patterns as the come to mind. I seem to especially be inspired by floors. As in carpet and tiles. I'm not sure why, maybe it's the often simple patterns? Anyway, while I was using the ladies room at the student union the other day, I fell in love with this awesome floor.



Those hexagons are so small! This section of the student union was built in 1931 so I'm guessing that's how old the tiles are? (I don't know enough about preservation to confirm this.) In any case, seeing them certainly brings the "They don't make 'em like they used to" thought up.

Week 31

I'm excited to be participating in One Flower Wednesday again. I took a few weeks off due to vacations and moving and back to school tasks. Fortunately, I kept sewing my weekly flowers so I'm not behind on my year long goal of 52 flowers in 52 weeks.



This photo was taken on campus. I wanted to photograph the impatiens but had trouble finding a bunch that wasn't wilted. (It is very unusual to see neglected flowers on campus!) Luckily there was a beautiful pot of them near the entrance to the bookstore.

Week 30

This picture doesn't do justice to the colors of this flower. It's much more beautiful in person. The photo was taken at my families home on Lake George, Indiana. Anyone know the name of these flowers? They are perennials, right?

I love that my own flower garden is growing!

Week 29

I love my oranges, though I'm not thrilled with them next to the golds. I'm a little meh about this flower but I knew right away that I had to take a photo of it with some tiger lilies, the Polack's favorite flower. We plan to plant tiger lilies in front of our porch to the new house.

Quick memory... Growing up, I lived out in the country. Our three acres had a creek running through the back of it. I used to ride my bike down the road to the bridge that went over the creek. I would play with the rocks under that bridge for hours, playing house or reading a book. Tiger lilies grew wild next to the bridge and I always wondered what kind of flowers they were. I've had an attraction to them ever since.

Week 28

My latest One Flower Wednesday post...



What a pretty flower! If I were name it, I'd call it cotton candy. Like last week, this photo was taken in the Arboretum on campus. Have wonderful rest of the week.

Week 27

Here is my recent flower. I took this picture while riding in the car. I was using the pillow as a sort of desk when I realized that the flowers on it were appropriate for my project.

Week 26

Week 26 - I'm halfway through the year. Yay for me!



This week's photo was taken at Bryan Park, during Seeger's baseball game.

Week 25

It's One Flower Wednesday time! This picture was taken at the local Kroger. They had so many pretty flowers sitting out in front, I was inspired to pull out my flower and phone to take a picture. The Polack was with me and I thought maybe he'd scurt away so as to no be embarrased. But he stayed with me as I took a few shots. He always enjoys seeing the finished flowers and I think he likes the idea of the flower in the flowers photo shoot.



I love black with color fabrics. I only have a few fat quarters so I don't really do anything with them. I also love teal, though I've never really made a teal quilt. I'll add those two ideas to the wish list.

This is the last post in June which means I'm half-way through the year of flowers.

Week 24

Whew - I'm on a roll with these flowers. My production started to peter out a few weeks ago. I was bored with the project. I was scraping the bottom of the barrel with the scraps I had for the flowers. I didn't like the colors I had left and I thought several of the scraps were ugly. My face would scrunch up when I thought about sewing more hexagons. To get out of my funk, I threw away several scraps (I just heard a horrified gasp from Christy) and cut in to some of my favorite fabrics from my stash. Viola! The sewing picked up some speed.

Lesson learned.

Here is my latest flower - another photo shoot on campus. This was taken near the Indiana Memorial Union, just next to my alma mater's building, Journalism.



Someone commented on my scrappy flowers. Traditional flowers use the same fabric for each row of petals. I'm so used to using scraps that I didn't even think about doing the traditional method. It would have been smarter - sometimes it's hard to find 12 of the same color for those outer rows - but hopefully when everything is put together, I'll have a quilt that is very unique. (Or very Polish as some would say!)

Week 23

Now that I'm participating in the One Flower Wednesday group, I thought I'd display my photos like some of the others - my flower immersed in to the scenery with other flowers. I feel so grown up!



Because I live in an apartment, I don't have any flowers surrounding me. And once I move in to the new house, it will take a few months before I can afford landscaping. Luckily I work on a college campus that boasts about it's beauty. It rivels some of the best in the country which means lots of flowers for me to take advantage of.

Week 22

When I started making my hexagon flowers, my personal goal was to complete one per week. Apparently, I'm not the only one! Karen from Journey of a Quilter has started a flower garden party. I've decided to join so that I can see what other flowers look like as well as have some incentive to keep going with mine own flowers. This means I'll start posting my flowers on Wednesday.

Weeks 20 and 21

Once again, I apologize for the bad picture. It looks like it will be awhile before I get a new camera. Light fixtures, appliances, a family cruise, and new tires for the car have sucked up all extra money.





At least I'm currently all caught up!

Week 20

Here's my latest Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt block. I apologize for the background of my kitchen table. It's a bit distracting, I know.

Week 19

I've done some flowers that I don't like at all. But this one I love. I've decided that when I put this together, I'm not going to add the green outline - the garden. Instead, I'm going to mix the ugly flowers in between the pretty ones and call my quilt, Grandma Needs to Weed Her Garden.

That's the plan for now anyway.

Week 18