Since we're not celebrating Mardi Gras this year (well, almost - more on that in a minute), I turned my Carnival energy to quilting what I wanna!
Final t-shirt quilt. Just needs outer borders and cornerstones. I'm procrastinating - can you blame me?
Finished hand-stitching the binding on Ring of Stars (pattern by Nancy Rink). It's too cold for outdoor photographs right now, so this one will have to wait for warmer weather before I take some glamour shots.
We had to do some weather prep at our camp in Mississippi, as a hard freeze was predicted beginning Sunday night. Dear Husband wanted to spend the night, so I knew I needed something to work on while we were there. I prepped block #5 from Poppy's Polka Dot Garden to work on during the evening. After spending the morning taking precautions to protect the plants and pipes at the camp, DH decided we should head back to our warm(er) house in New Orleans!
The weather has been so rainy, cold, and nasty I wanted a bright and colorful quilt to cheer things up. I hung the 2014 Rainbow Scrap Sampler quilt on my dining room quilt hanger, and now I smile every time I walk through the room!
I made some more 25-Patch Star blocks. I haven't decided on a final layout, but I know I need a dozen or so more blocks to have a decent-sized quilt. More block parts are cut and ready for stitching.
OK, there's more quilty stuff to talk about, but I'll save it for another post.
In the meantime, it's Mardi Gras y'all!
I need to make more Mardi Gras quilts. This wall-hanging is all I've got so far! Purple, green, and gold are the colors of Mardi Gras, so it's not even difficult to come up with a quilt color scheme.
This year's Mardi Gras celebrations (at least in New Orleans) were all cancelled long ago due to the pandemic. It's hard to keep New Orleanians from observing one of their favorite holidays though, and enterprising and socially-distant alternatives started popping up all over.
One of my favorites is the idea of House Floats. Instead of having parades with floats and marching bands and hordes of participants (Mardi Gras parades are not for genteel observing - you have to participate in them!), folks took to decorating their houses like parade floats.
One of my favorites is Saint Dolly - Dolly Parton as the patron saint of Covid-19 vaccines. It's hard to see in the picture, but she's holding a vaccine syringe in her right hand. The sign on the left side of the yard, "Vaccine, Vaccine, Vaccine, Vacciiiine!" is sung to the tune of her song, "Jolene".
Another favorite is the Mystic Krewe of Unicorns. I don't think there is an actual Krewe of Unicorns, but if there is, I want to be a member!
