Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Work-Free Wednesday

I love Wednesday; I get to sleep in, then spend my day gardening, cooking and quilting to my heart's desire.

Today I planted onion seeds; something I've never grown before but I'm being adventurous this year. I also set up a trellis for my snow peas to grow up.

I baked an orange cake, which I've iced with a lemon icing. Super easy to make, it's all done in the food processor. I'm also making Nasi Goreng (Indonesian fried rice) for dinner.


And I basted up my Falling Star quilt, and got stuck into the quilting. After a bit of umming and ahhing, I finally settled on an all-over feather design, which I'm doing using my usual tracing paper method. I figured a quilt this pretty deserved more than just a stipple.


I'm using a brownish coloured thread which I used on the table runners I made at Christmas; it shows up just enough without taking over the actual quilt design.

6 comments:

Bec said...

Gosh you have been busy! Looking forward to seeing your quilting on Catch a Falling Star.

Willow Grove - Kez said...

Looks good. Is it hard to quilt with the tracing paper method??????? Looks interesting

Quilter Going Bananas said...

That Orange Cake sure looks good :^)

Can't wait to see your Falling Star quilt all quilted...

What kind of paper are you using for the quilt design???

Leanne said...

I love that feather quilting oh and the cake looks tooooo yummy.

Teresa said...

Your feather quilting is gorgeous!

Megan said...

I just started using the tracing paper method, and I LOVE it! Your Peace on Earth quilt looks great! It makes me want to pull out all the Peace on Earth fabric I've got stashed away and start piecing.