Waving My Flag!

"Life is a Song ... Love is the Music"

This is my flag.

A bluebird for happiness.

 A song in my heart.

This little glass bluebird is one my mother gave to each of my children when they were young,

 

For this photo this little glass bird is sitting in the snow in front of my forsythia bush.

This is a silk garland added for color as there are no blossoms here anywhere, yet,

not even crocus or hardy pansies.  It is still too cold.

I took these photos standing in an icy mud puddle when the sun was shining a few days ago.

Today we are getting more snow ... oh, no!

 

 

No bluebirds in my bush, either, but I do have plenty of sparrows in my bush.

This is my message.

These are my fabrics.

The two large music prints are from
"All That Jazz" by Sheri Small for Windham Fabrics

Actually these are my daughter's fabrics as she purchased then a few years ago

when we were on a quilty adventure together.

My beautiful daughter is my inspiration for this project.

This will be a Mother's Day Gift for my Mommy-To-Be daughter,
whose due date is Mother's Day.
My daughter plans to be a stay-at-home-mom for her Sprout.
 This as a gift to her to take with her to plant in her garden
to remind her of her gift.
My daughter is a gifted musician and teacher and conductor.
My wish is that she may continue to share her gift with others always.

As my longtime followers know, last August
 I blogged about may daughter's wedding at 

The Cathedral of the Pines,

Rindge, NH

On my Daughter's Wedding Day,

 ... music played ...
(These lovely ladies are two of her very best flutist friends.)

... as she glided down the long  aisle from the top of the hill ...

... she would have passed this stone bench nestled in the gardens ...

So I programed my Janome ...

... and let her stitch!

I stitched these in a variegated rainbow thread
and also a shaded dark turquoise blue thread.

 

I have decided that the darker thread reads and photographs easier.
This is King Tut "De Nile" by Superior Thread.

 The blue thread is the same colors as the three blue Kona Solids 

that I used making this paper pieced

 "Blue Bird of Happiness."

The paper pieced pattern I used may be found in this book,

"For the Birds" by Jaynette Huff.

I also made three paper pieced music notes.

Here is the green one in progress.

This music note is from Right Patterns

and my be purchased Here

  

Here is the rough layout of my Flag-In-Progress.
I decided to add a pretty cream background fat quarter I had in my stash of
 "Sweet Serenade" by Basic Grey
to lighten the background of my flag.

I did some improv piecing again for this project using some of the scraps and pieces.

Katniss helped.

I fussy cut the fat quarter and the large print music fabric to include certain parts of the design.

 Butterfly helped.

"Birdievision" outside my sewing room window has been 

keeping my quilty kitties very busy in the daytime.

So Butterfly was very sleepy when she stayed up late a few nights while I worked on the layout,

 patiently waiting for me to all it a quilty night.

My flag on a stick measures 13" by 19" including the top hanging sleeve.

I enjoyed making this flag and am looking forward to giving to my daughter

for her first Mother's Day.

Please visit all my friends who are waving their flags today ...

March 26th

Living with Purpose

Life In The Scrapatch (you are here)

Devoted Quilter

Made By Me In Red

Quilting Quietly

Thank You, 

Mdm Samm @ Sew We Quilt

and 

Thearica @ Pig Tales and Quilts

for this wonderful blog hop!


Giveaway Time!

To say thanks for reading and following I am giving away ~~~>

 

These two Fat Quarters of
Sweet Serenade by Basic Grey
and one of my the embroidered strips
I made and did not use in my flag

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I will announce a winner on April 4th.

Thank you for visiting!

My quilty kitties and I hope you will visit our quilty corner again soon!

:)