Geranium Dress II

A special little girl turned 7 recently, so I made her a Geranium Dress (see the first one I made here).

Everyone says it looks like a watermelon!  I wish I had put ladybug fabric lining in.

 She's a tall, skinny girl, so I had her mom measure her, and she fit in the 4T bodice, but I went with the 5T skirt plus an inch.    

I hope it fits her (with a little room to grow!) and that she loves it!  I hope it is worn and washed often :-)

Pink Star Progress

 I've been working on the pink star quilt and making pretty good progress!  Though I had hoped to be done with the top by tomorrow.

Taken by my 4 year old son, hence the facial expression.

 I had to work out some kinks in making the corner pink ribbons (using this tutorial by Missouri Quilt Co), and that took a couple of days longer than I expected (due to having more cherries to deal with).

A 60" star, designed to lay on top of a queen bed without hanging over.

For the ribbons, I left off the final border and then figured out how to put them on point, but it ended up 3" too small, and thanks to some IG (I'm @quiltsnfeathers) suggestions I decided to just add sashing to the borders to get them up to the 15.5" blocks I need:

One down, three to go!

This evening everything was going great, until that last piece (laying on the quilt), which I did measure twice, ended up about 3/8" too short and I don't have enough Kona Oyster to just recut.

 So I'm leaving that for the morning, because I am bummed I will need to scab in a small piece to get it to the right size!

What do you do when you've cut something too short and don't have enough to recut the whole piece?

Cherries and a new quilt project!

Wow, I have been away for two weeks?!  That was not intentional!  I managed to get sicker after my last post, more house guests, and then our cherry trees nearly exploded with cherries.  I spent a solid week picking, stemming, pitting, freezing, cooking, and canning them.  We also gave away a bunch, and there are still more out on the tree.  I canned a total of 100(!!) jars of jam, marmalade, liqueur and pie filling:

My instagram followers (@quiltsnfeathers) have seen nothing but cherry posts for more than a week, ha.

But no more!  I'm done.  DONE.  And finally my fabric.com order showed up and I will be quite busy working on a quilt again!  This one is a commissioned quilt for a friend of my dad's--she's a breast cancer survivor and wants to celebrate and reward herself with a beautiful pink quilt:

All from Fabric.com.  They have a nice selection of pink ribbon fabrics.

She chose a big star pattern and that center pink/white fabric, I chose the rest of the pinks, the Kona Oyster background and the grey Sketch for the back.  I'm not a pink person, but I'm pretty excited about this quilt!