As it happened, I went in a different direction from what I had originally planned, which was some shade of brown for the words and letters in the "Quaker Virtues" sampler -- I think it was the little "m" that made me think of just going with the next-lightest and next-darkest shades of blue to the 931 that I'm using for the motifs. This will make it a bit more Delft or willow-ware like than I was picturing in my mind, but that's not a bad thing by any means.
With the spring weather here seems to come more decisiveness for me -- I felt good about changing my mind to a rather-simpler quilt for our bed, but since there is a lot less solid fabric in a half-square-triangle block than in (proportionately) a Cross and Crown, I had to get more fabrics, which meant rearranging the layout I had already started. Oh, well -- I'm really happy with the new fabrics. Like the "Quaker Virtues," this has changed the whole look of the thing, but I think for the better.
I had been putting this off for months, unsure of how well it would work, and -- surprisingly -- dreading having to work with teeny-tiny molding, but the other day I told myself, "Right! get on with it!" I wanted to make framed "vintage" photographs for my 1:12 carpet shop, but of course they should be glazed, so how to do that ...? I printed out a selection of photographs to a good size, then glued them face-down to some clear plastic cut from either a box of croissants from Costco or a box of spinach (I tried it more than once). The glue is just outside each photo, so that it doesn't show. I painted some tiny cove molding, then cut it to fit each picture, then glued that to the plastic "glazing" with the photo underneath. After the glue dried, I trimmed away the extra plastic and touched up the cut edges with black paint to hide them.
They turned out pretty well, and the slightly decrepit bits here and there are on a par with the rest of the shop!
And I managed to choose fabrics online! -- always a gamble -- for Laura's star quilt --
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