Add a row

 As the new year is advancing slowly and every day the sun sets a minute later, I am aware that spring is just around the corner.  Well, maybe around the section..(1 mile by 1 mile square for those who don't farm), would be a better analysis.  IT'S COMING FOLKS!  Until then, I find myself holed up in the sewing room for the most part. The apron above is a simple pattern and is made from one yard of fabric.  Being short, one yard would make the apron too big for me so I made mine about 26" square.  It should be made of one piece of fabric, lined with a coordinating fabric and with one corner turned back at the top....voila!  I only had a half yard of this pricy Wyo fabric so I improvised and truly, I love it.  But I am an apron person!  I wear one a lot 'cause I guess I am just messy by nature.

My wonderful quilt group meets every Monday to sew all day.  It is my therapy.  This group consists of advanced to beginner quilters and we all have learned a ton from each other.  We decided that we would do a project this year to challenge all of us.  We are going to do a row by row quilt, but each quilter will add one row to another quilter's project and pass it on to another.  There are at the onset no rules, however each quilter can add fabric to their first row so that others can use that fabric for some consistency or they can choose to just contribute the first row and see what the others add.  I have done this before with a square and have others add borders of their choice and at the end, we each have a unique quilt, with every friend contributing.  So the square above is one my friend wanted to do, but it was only 6 inches and she wanted a larger square.  I thought it would be fairly easy, but that top leaf square was a real challenge. I did persevere though.  But after all is said and done, the bottom leaf just looked funky.  I checked the pattern and it is correct according to that, but I now realize that the little white triangle should be flipped.  I like to color outside the lines, but this is just wrong. I will correct that.