The Teens (16, 17 & 18)

It MAY be hard to keep touching another un-finished object every day.
Interesting that my rebellion against those guidelines come during the TEENS.

These are scrap blocks that my friends in the Quilting Bee made for me ... in 2014.
They each made me TWO 16-patch blocks from squares I had in my stash.

I put them together.....
32 16-patch blocks
31 Setting Squares (well - "X" shaped blocks...)
63 blocks in all

And then STALLED because it was not large enough for our bed.
STALLED for ... it MAY have been YEARS.

So for my MAY Challenge... I brought it out,
hoping it MAY Happen in one day.  Hoping to add enough blocks for it to fit on my bed.

It did not happen in one day - but it DID happen in my teens.
May 16, May 17, & May 18.

Now it has:

50 16-patch blocks ( I made 18 more)

49 Setting Squares (well - "X" shaped blocks...)( I made 18 more)
99 blocks in all.

And I added a 4 inch border all around.

DONE.

In MAY.

I MAY save up my pennies and take it to a long-arm Quilter. 
My little machine will not accommodate all this beauty.

I am happy to be soon be out of the TEENS.

Fifteenth

Today I MAY consider this pile of lovely blocks.

These are orphan tulip blocks I adopted.

The three petals of each flower were foundation pieced onto paper with a machine.  I found tiny scraps of very old magazine paper.  It was brown, like maybe old newspaper would be, but it was shiny like the paper of a magazine. 

After the petals were sewn with strips of fabric onto paper, the three triangles were also sewn with the machine. 

Then the hand-piecing began.
The tips of the flowers were attached to the petals by hand.
The curved edge and the pointed petals were seamed by hand.
Then, last of all, the leaves and stem were appliquéd by hand.

I MAY add a flower pot under 9 of the blocks from some old fabric I have.
Then the quilt will be a rectangle, with one block to spare - that I MAY use on the back.

Two Weeks of "It May Happen"

I have set a goal to work on a different project each day in the month of MAY.
I have had the attitude that IT MAY HAPPEN.
And, on the whole,  YES!!  And I FINISHED a FEW of the projects!!

Let me present BEFORE and AFTER pictures.

                   

Cathedral Window Quilt Block
BEFORE

Cathedral Window Pillow Cover
AFTER

Collection of empty Medication bottles
BEFORE

  Progress made on crafting them
DURING

Door decoration for our favorite nurse on National Nurse's Day

AFTER

                     

Old Music Books
BEFORE

Heart Music Paper Chain
AFTER

Box of CRAZY quilt blocks.

Pieced.  Embroidered.

BEFORE

CRAZY QUILT

FINISHED!!!

Fourteen - OUTSIDE

Today's project happened outside.
With the help of a seven-year old... but I did not get her picture!!

We have Strawberries in the backyard.  And the weeds have encroached.

BEFORE

Since this raised bed for the strawberries involves FOOD - stuff we eat,
I do not use chemicals to limit the weeds.  So they can get .... weedy.


We spent a lovely morning weeding the strawberry patch. 

AFTER

And I am delighted with how my Strawberry Spiral is flourishing.

Ten and Three

It MAY Happen.....

This is a quilt from a quilt exchange that is just not large enough.  So I am going to make 20 more blocks.  I think it MAY fit on our queen-sized bed if I enlarge it.

You MAY be able to see the quilt and some of the next blocks.

And here you MAY be able to see the sketches I am using as I expand this quilt.

And you MAY be able to picture that I will add two rows across the top
and two columns down the side... To make it big enough for our bed.

Twelve - A Dozen Days of MAYBE

I MAY be CRAZY.
But I decided to FINISH this Crazy Quilt.
I like it SO MUCH!!!

Eight of the blocks were made by friends during our BEE CHALLENGE of 2016.
The primary fabrics are 

Teal Silk (It was a dress of mine)

Print Corduroy - black background, pretty flowers (another old dress)

Red wide-wale Courduroy

Purple cotton Velveteen (maternity dress from... 1985)

and an amazing silk shirt I bought at a garage sale.  

This shirt had ALL the right colors AND had embroidery and beads on it.

The Back is Velveteens and Corduroys from old clothing I had.
The binding is a Dark Chocolate Velveteen from a jumper I had in the 1980's.
It is SO SOFT as a binding!!!

Now I have to vacuum and dust my sewing room.

I have NEVER seen so much fuzz!!!

Nine. Ten. Eleventh

Nine.  Did I work on a new project on Saturday, MAY 9?
As they say in German... Nein. 
No.  No new project on the ninth.

Ten.  Music paper project.
Music saved for some project. 
Making paper chains.

Eleven.
It MAY be CRAZY here on MAY 11.