OREGANO ????

Brian and Jenny are up for a long weekend. When I found our Brian really likes French toast, as do I, I decided to make some this morning.... with, yum, cinnamon and 4 eggs. Except, if you look carefully -- that isn't cinnamon. Yikes, I'm trying to make French toast, not scrambled eggs. Um, I'm sure FT wouldn't be any good at all with oregano leaves. Let's just say that Kona and Raggs were well fed this morning. They loved their scrambled eggs.

Doesn't Raggs look like a happy dog? When he finished his scrambled eggs he went over to Kona's bowl to make sure she had eaten all of her scrambled eggs. And, Kona was over checking up on Ragg's bowl.

This morning Jen and I will be sweating in the studio. I'm loading a charity quilt on Ruthie to try the new pantograph I bought. Then, I'll load another quilt and use the panto on it. (And, this one might be a charity quilt too, I haven't decided yet.) Jen's using my Bernina to quilt one of her quilts. I don't know what I'll be doing, maybe working on Sarah's quilt or doing some more lessons on the Jessica Sprague site.

Happy Quilting All!

Jessica Sprague's Class

Last month JessicaSprague.com offered a free class on Frame Ups and Special Effects. It started yesterday and I didn't think to do it last night. So, while I am dithering away on what to do next on the hanky challenge I decided to follow the directions for day 1. Here's the resulting photo with frame and word art. Notice the gold frame and the word sassy in the bottom right corner? Getting those two items on to the photograph was the first lesson. Tonight I may try to do lesson 2. I work on a Mac and not all the directions are the same so it took a little playing around to get it right. I would say that Cassie, on the leftt, and Raggs on the right are definitely Sassy!

I have photos of several different ways to continue the hanky challenge. I realized after I made the hanky into a frame that putting a white underlay really didn't substantially change the look of the hanky.

Here's the hanky with the frame in place. Nope, you really can't see that I put in a frame. Oh well. I enjoyed learning the new technique anyway. I had planned to applique the rose into the center.

Here's sample 1: green mini border, deep purple triangles to put on point. I'd have to applique something in the borders. The rose looks nice there... but four more? I was also thinking of doing some celtic work out there.... hum.

And, sample 2: Green miniborder, red, wider border. Rose applique in the middle where I originally expected to put it. (on the left.) Ho hum.

Sample 3. Same deep purple on point, red mini border, rose back in the center. (on left.)Still need something in triangles....

Sample 4. Back to the red on point, green mini border... (on right.) ditto on something in the triangles...

Ok, that's enough of these.

You can see my dilemma. Let me know what you think. I had also thought of doing a pieced border but I didn't want to detract too much from the hanky. And, it is really busy. Sound off folks and let me know what you think.

Happy Quilting.