Grandmother's Garden Quilt

I made a 3D Grandmother's Garden Quilt. I wanted to show you a few of the blocks so you could see what I mean by 3D. The design is by Eleanor Burns and it is great fun to make. Each block is a different flower appliqued in a pieced basket. I used all scraps for this quilt.

This is the Tiger Lily.

This is the Pansy.

This is the morning glory, one of my favorites.

I think this one is the bleeding hearts. I'm not sure because I don't have the book anymore.

And I can't remember what this one is. Sorry. Can anyone tell?
There are many other flower blocks. Some of the flowers have embroidery that really adds to them. If you want to do an interesting and fun quilt you should try this one by Eleanor Burns. Her instructions are great and if you go step by step it is quite easy...a little time consuming, but easy. My quilt is put together on point with sashing in between, but you can do it different ways. It just got quilted by a friend of mine on her long arm machine and it looks great, so all I have to do now is put the binding on.

So try this one and have fun!

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Well, this is the last day for All Saints Day, Day of the Dead, whatever you happen to call it. I was thinking of my trip a few years back to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New England. I went with my friend Lana and we sort of did the authors tour together around Concord, Mass. We visited Walden Pond, the authors homes, and of course author's hill at Sleepy Hollow.

Sleepy Hollow is a beautiful cemetery. Of course lots of people visit here. Cairns are all around the graves of the most popular authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Thoreau, and Emerson. I added my little stones too.

Sleepy Hollow is a very large and beautiful cemetery and if you are ever up in that area it is worth visiting.
Most of the headstones in Sleepy Hollow date pretty far back. Of course everything is older in New England than here in Texas it seems, as it was settled first. I always felt like I was stepping back in time in a way.

Thoreau seems to be the most famous I guess. He is one of my favorite as well. All of the authors have family plots and just small headstones are in place for each member with their first name inscribed on it.

It was very interesting and very calming there.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said of cemeteries...

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.