Agriculture Report, What's on the Design Wall

What’s on the Design Wall & “Agriculture Report”

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I was going to blog more about my recent Oregon Coast trip but there are so many photos to sort through so I thought I’d just post about a new wall hanging I am working on and my “Agriculture Report”. (What is an “Agriculture Report”? Well One of my blogging buddies @quiteayarnblog has an ongoing series of posts called “Agriculture Report” whose title always cracks me up because it is an update of what is going on in her garden. So I had to adopt that term for my garden report)

WHAT’S ON THE DESIGN WALL

I have so many projects in queue – unfinished projects and new project with imaginary and actual deadlines – but I was having a “squirrel” moment and cleaning out old quilting magazines and came across this pattern, String Attached, in an old issue of AmericanQuilter Magazine – and had to make it!

I am not sure why I fell in love with it but I did. I’ve done very little “string piecing” in the past but I thought it would be a great way to work down my collection of solid color fabric scraps:

I dumped them out and selected fabric scraps for the little quilt. I decided to stay away from dark or medium purple but to have red-violet and pink instead. I also tried to select fabrics similar to the sample one in the pattern.

The pattern calls string piecing on foundation paper but I decided to use muslin instead.

And here is the beginning of the center star on my design wall:

I am hopeful so far but I have some Y-seam type piecing to do when I get all 8 points to the center star done – yikes!

AGRICULTURE REPORT

My little upstairs patio garden is doing well this year, probably due to the ridiculous amount of rain we’ve been getting in the Denver Metro area. John and I joke we are now living in “Den-attle” or “Sea-enver” (Denver + Seattle).

I have tomatoes, peppers, and various herbs growing along with some Marigolds for pest control.

I was excited the other day to harvest my first tomatoes of the season!

Yes there were three cherry (small) tomatoes, but it was still exciting (smile).

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46 thoughts on “What’s on the Design Wall & “Agriculture Report””

  1. the start os the center star is exciting to see! and what a cool project
    Also, I like the term “agriculture report” and had to smile to read that it is for garden updates
    and side note – I had some local deer chomp on (and almost ruin) my hibiscus and some other plants – ugh!
    It is a new little area for gardening and I did not realize the deer came to that spot – lesson learned
    and so I have vinca and “grasses there: (junco?) – I might add marigolds too (like the ones you use with your veggies) because I guess those are deer resistant

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    1. Sorry you had the deer incident. We have open space behind our house and lots of critters wandering about. I have to be careful about planting anything they can reach over our not very high fence to snack on. Sometimes they are just looking over our fence staring at us, ha!
      Thanks and I am excited to see how it comes out and how close to the sample in the pattern in looks. 🙂

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  4. Love the stripey star! And I bet those tomatoes are the best ones you’ve ever tested, home grown always tastes so much better doesn’t it?

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  11. I love the agricultural report. That has me smiling and also wishing I had thought of it. My tomato production matches yours, so I fully understand consuming them on the spot. They are so sweet, so fresh, and oh so delicious. I’m intrigued by the concept of string quilting. I’m always learning something new here.

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      1. I’m envious of friends who’s tomato plants are prolific. I’m in the same boat as you are. We’re managing three to five a day now to add to our salads. Definitely not something to write home about.

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  12. Interesting to see some of the process of making the quilt. I never stopped to think about these patterns are made. As for the agriculture report, well, you’ve got tomatoes so it is!

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  14. Three BEAUTIFUL tomatoes! A friend brought me some extras she had that were so pretty. I can only eat them seeded and cut up small, and about one a week, but it adds some different taste to things and is so enjoyable!

    Love seeing your string blocks. I have solids, or near-solids, but not in bright colors like that. I will have to search shops selling scrap bags to find some, I think. I like what I have, but this pattern looks so great in the true colors.

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  16. I’m intrigued Tierney, I have only paper pieced. I’m curious why you used muslin instead of paper and what the results will be like. I’m thinking it would be sturdier as a wall hanging? You have a wonderful potted garden, so much easier to weed than ours! Lol

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    1. Great question – although it did not specifically state in the pattern, I assume that you have to at some point remove the paper from the back of your piecing. As it is just a small wallhanging size piece I figured it would be okay to have the extra thickness of the muslin (which is pretty thin) and just leave the muslin on the back. 🙂

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  20. love the Agriculture Report – I used to grow veges in my old pad and loved seeing the results – except when I finally saw from the upstairs kitchen window why tomatoes were being pecked – even though I had a net enclosure – a pesky blackbird found a way in…

    here I’ve not really got into it it – as – well no as, just isn’t. I do have a 3 grapevines, which H has pruned properly so looking forward to better crops this year…

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