Elegant Garden, Blocks 5, 6 & 7

Three Elegant Garden blocks were completed while I was in Phoenix visiting our daughter.

Block 5 . . .

Block 6 . . .

And block 7 . . .

These blocks were a nice transportable project to take and and didn't up much space in the suitcase.

I'm trying to use some of the unused fabrics in the civil war tub. I have limited pink fabrics but I think what I have will be enough to finish the blocks. 

Elegant Garden is an older quilt pattern designed by Edyta Sitar from Laundry Basket Quilts. Her instructions call for machine applique but I'm appliqueing by hand. 

Linking to Kathys Slow Stitching Sunday, Stitching Stuff, Oh Scrap, Handmade Monday, Sew & Tell, Craftastic Monday, Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings

I'm slowly adjusting to being back in Indiana with the gloomy days of no sunlight. The light looks different though when it snows. 

This is the most snow we've had this winter so far. When it snows, I always think I need to make a quilt with gray/white and subtle dark grays and browns. I think it would be interesting. The yellow slide does give a touch of color. A red cardinal would be even more colorful.

This is heavy wet lake effect snow, the kind of snow that gives you a heart attack from shoveling if you are not physically fit.