Can You Hear the Fabric?

Flowers made with the Baby GO! and a pinking blade.

There is a mountain of irresistible  flowers and flower petals left over from my quilt  for the SAQA Seasonal Palette exhibit. Like a tempting candy, they call to me in the studio. "Laura," they say, "You must put us on a quilt!"

Bird Walking. It's like dog walking, only with a bird.

Here's one way to use those harping flowers. Find a completed quilt top in the "to be hand-stitched" pile and add pretty pink flowers. The bird is a lot happier now walking through a flower garden. (And the voices in my head are receding.)

A cactus yearning for a blue sun.

Another use for those cute pink petals? Treat them as a single flower like a rare desert bloom. Can you image lots of pink spines poking out from the cactus? Remember hand stitching adds detail to the surface you can't get with fabric alone.