Why quilting is good for us!

You bet your boots quilting is good for us. We need to create. We need to give love. We need to be alone and we need the companionship of fellow quilters. Of course, we also help the economy by bringing home lovely fabrics that call to us. Sometimes though, it just might also raise our blood pressure. I can Not move forward with the crib quilt underway. Little Peepers, Fons & Porters Baby Quilts Winter 2008 is adorable but choosing the background fabric for the Peepers has halted production until morning comes and Mr. Esther has had some coffee and can choose for me. Quilting helps us know "Yes we can" and, of course, "Maybe I can't" but we're growing either way. Beats the heck out of watching reruns of the Dukes of Hazard. Polly

Howdy!

This is so cute I almost can't stand it!!!

(made by J.Gomez aka CAQuilter) (from GardenPat)

As "they" say, Polly: You go, Girl!

R/Sandy

Oh wow Sandy. Thank you for finding/showing the quilt pattern for me. It is quite a case of cute. It's a gift for a friend's grandbaby. I was 'somewhat' interested in what sort of theme the new mama had going. When I found out she was doing baby's room in brown and cream, you 'know' that's not going to happen from my happy stash. I just can't wait to show you my version of Peepers. Polly

What is with the brown nurseries? There is almost nothing that is a choice but pink or blue or brown. I guess most folks find out whether they are having a boy or girl and then just go pink or blue? Manufacturers gave up on neutral colors? There was a brown clothes hamper on a gift list for a new baby in the family. That just seems a bad plan besides not very happy. Those peepers are the cutest thing. Thanks for the link from Sandy and I can't wait to see the Polly version. Taria

Oh wow Sandy. Thank you for finding/showing the quilt pattern for me. It is quite a case of cute. It's a gift for a friend's grandbaby. I was 'somewhat' interested in what sort of theme the new mama had going. When I found out she was doing baby's room in brown and cream, you 'know' that's not going to happen from my happy stash. I just can't wait to show you my version of Peepers. Polly

But brown doesn't show biological stains as much as pink, blue or pastel colours :-)

Lizzy

But brown doesn't show biological stains as much as pink, blue or pastel colours :-)

Lizzy

that is why it seems a bad idea! Taria

I can like brown. If somebody wants to give me a mink coat or a chocolate cake, I can love it. I just can't think of brown in creating a sweet baby quilt. I swing between pastels and what the 'experts' say babies prefer. To be fair, I recently spent a wonderful half-hour with one of our great-grandsons while he was zoomed in with those 'learning to focus' big eyes on a arrangement I had on the piano of bright red raspberries. There have been wedding, graduation and baby shower invitations coming in here for the past year or so in brown. It's got to be 'trendy'. It will go away. I can wait. Polly

Hehehe... same here! ;-> (I created a lovely thing in browns and reds yesterday, and today the chocolate-covered chocolate cake with cherries in it will be on our coffee table.)

Really, I have to dress a girl and I go shopping in the boys' department for sweat- and t-shirt basics because all you can get for girls is that horrible lurid pink.

I tell you what is worst of the brown wave: bathrooms in brown. I mean, brown invitations, brown fabrics - they'll be gone in a few months or years, but a bathroom has a life expectancy of what? 20 or 30 years perhaps. And I know what I'm talking about; we've got two bathrooms with brown tiles and green sink and toilet. We are dying to redo the bathrooms, but we haven't got the time and money yet.

U.

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Hmm, I could imagine that, although perhaps a bit eyewatering, the harvest gold has a somewhat bright and cheerful aspect. I've been in a chocolate bathroom once and it felt that now amount of watt in the lightbulbs could drive away the darkness. Anyway, I guess that even bright and cheerful can get on your nerves over the years. ;-) My dream is white tiles with a somewhat blueish or other stripe at sight level, white porcelain and the floor in a matching blue (or other colour). DH loves the kind of renaissancy floor tiles, large black and white, like a chessboard, and I agree that it looks fine and classical in larger bathrooms. However, for our place it's a total no-go. Either we need just about eight tiles for the entire floor or we go for smaller tiles and then it stops looking classically elegant and turns grey from afar. (I feel that we are drifting back to patchworky topics; the smaller the pieces, the more the colours blend and... ) Anyway, I wouldn't complain as long as it looks decent and doesn't tire the eye, if you know what I mean. Something you like to look at even after ten years. (See, if you wait long enough, the colour scheme is hip again; I caught my neighbours doing their bathroom in brown, only it's now called café latte or mocha or whatever the industry titles it to put sand in out eyes.)

U.

Quite. All the little babies dressed in brown/pink or brown/blue make me think of those chocolates with fondant centres. But I'm not keen on the look. Whatever happened to green, yellow, peach and lavender as "neutral" colours, or indeed passing clothes down to younger children? You can't do that half the time when they're pink and sparkly or blue with diggers on them.... I'm always on the lookout for good quality, unisex items. And T's favourite colours are purple and green. Try finding clothes in those colours anymore!

-- Jo in Scotland

Psst! Roberta! Tile can be painted!

Kay Who tiled several bathrooms in the 1970s... all classic white with different colors of grout.