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10-18-2014, 03:59 PM

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Beautiful use of a fabric I also fell for. As far as the drought, have all of you neighbors go through the car wash. Gauranteed to make it rain....

If only.....car washes can only be opened two days a week, unless they cart in their own water from outside our area. Good idea though! We haven't been allowed to wash our cars at home for 4 years...my sports car enthusiast husband finds that harder than you can imagine...

BUT, my pansy quilt is now ready to for the binding! Pansy garden quilt straight ahead!!

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10-18-2014, 04:00 PM

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You made such a very stunning quilt with just a simple pattern. The sashing of the light purple you picked was perfect for going with the boldness of the yellow pansies. I love Warm Wishes. It is a free pattern for those who are unfamiliar with this pattern.

Thanks, Joellyn! The boldness of those yellow pansies was almost more than I could bear....but the light purple saved the day!!

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10-18-2014, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by madamekelly

Beautiful use of a fabric I also fell for. As far as the drought, have all of you neighbors go through the car wash. Gauranteed to make it rain....

Have you used your fabric yet? What pattern did you put it in, if you used it in a quilt? I still have a yard and a half of it and am looking for ideas.

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10-18-2014, 08:24 PM

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I just finished a quilt top where the focus fabric is pansy flowers. I bought the fabric because the part of Texas I live in is in year 4 of a drought, and there are no real flowers anywhere...outside watering hasn't been allowed in 2 years. (We had over 100 days of 100+ temperatures in a row the first summer of the drought. That is what started it.) But....enough of our water problems. ...So, I gave myself a quilt full of flowers.

I am pretty pleased with it....(and at the same time I think it looks a bit like a table cloth.

) But, I have artificial daisies in my flower pots out front, and a pansy quilt here inside. Life is good.

Oh, the pattern is Warm Wishes.

Dina

You must live near me in South Texas! I'm in Corpus, we can only water on the trash pick up day (once a week) before 10am and after 6pm

10-18-2014, 10:58 PM

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that's really lovely! i hope you have ac so you can use it! we quilters do have a way of filling the void! i now know just the pattern i will be using my favorite fabric line in. that warm wishes is soooo pretty!

10-19-2014, 04:15 AM

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I would be pleased too. Your quilt is so pretty. I'm sorry you can't have flowers out side. My dick has three rail planters and two hanging basket planters in the summer. I would gladly share them with you if I could.

10-19-2014, 05:53 AM

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You must live near me in South Texas! I'm in Corpus, we can only water on the trash pick up day (once a week) before 10am and after 6pm

No, you are way south of me. I am in Wichita Falls, about 8-10 hours away, in central north Texas. You can water 100% more than we can. At least last summer we could water our trees. Well, we can this summer, if we use shower water or bath tub water that we have bucketed and carry out to them....which is exactly what we do.

But I wish you more water too. Soon would be good.

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10-19-2014, 05:55 AM

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You are sweet. I have friends in Oregon and in Maryland who regularly email me pictures of their flowers. That helps.

I even got a beautiful picture from Oregon this morning of trees with their leaves turning color. Beautiful...and not happening here. Trees need a good water supply for their leaves to be pretty in the fall

But, we will survive, even if our climate change is to full-fledged desert, which we are all hoping won't actually happen. There has been significant rain on three sides of us, all within 60 miles. So it just needs to come again and this time aim at us!

Dina