Timothy Leary Quilt progress

Top:



Back:



The blocks:

Aloha Sunday

Just dropping in to visit.

I need to go upstairs and cut more fabric for Leary blocks. This is complicated because I sneezed and put my back out. (I should make up a better story like "I was lifting a car off a fallen tourist and hurt my back.) Pretend my back went out while I was doing something exciting.

You should have seen the look of terror in Dear Husband's face when I told him if I didn't make it upstairs to cut fabric he was going to have to entertain me all day. I think he would carry me up the stairs if he could. ;)

I have six blocks of the Leary Quilt joined. I'm loving the project. I'm not even sure why. It's a strange project. Not perfectly executed, not the prettiest quilt I've ever done, but I love it.

I'm off to limp up the stairs and get some more blocks going. I just can't go a whole day without adding to this quilt.

Just quoodling along

Quoodling. I just love the word. Not only is it descriptive, but it's a great Scrabble word. (quilting + doodling = quoodling)

The Timothy Leary test block has turned into the Timothy Leary Quilt in progress. I can't remember when I've had so much fun with a quilt project.

I think I'm channeling the 60s. The blocks remind me of embroidery on Levis, tye dye and hippies running around with interesting outfits.

I put the first two blocks together just to make sure I could get the blocks connecting. The join is smooth and flat. And somehow fun little quoodles are happily appearing on the back of my blocks.

Note: The pics are hard to see unless you click on them to see a larger view.

Here are blocks 1 and 2 joined:




Love this flower on block 3:




The top in its psychedelic, unmatched glory:



I was old enough to listen to the music and watch the "goings on" in the 60s, but too young to join in. (That's probably a very good thing.)

This project is nothing but pure fun.

Timothy Leary test block

We've been freezing the last couple of nights so I want to make a big, huge quilt for our Cal King bed. (OK, it was in the high 60s, but we thought we were freezing.)

I have two big hunks of material that are big enough to cover our bed. No piecing, I'm just going to make 9-inch blocks and quilt-as-I-go.

Here's the test block that's been ripped more than Timothy Leary ever was:



The fabric for the top is one of the Kaleidoscope screen prints by Hoffman.

The back is a pretty mottled blue flannel by Moda:



Why the Timothy Leary quilt? Dear Husband said it reminded him of Timothy Leary or Peter Max.

Links to their Wiki entries in case you missed the 60s. (And I think many people did in one way or another.)

Garden snapshots

The Hibiscus had four buds and two opened this morning:



The tomato plant is a little sorry looking, but it's just fun to have a tomato plant the end of November:



The small impatien is growing and doing well:



The azalea loved the three hours of rain the other day:



The big color spot impatien is huge: