April Cornucopia

 

Here is a cornucopia post for April, collecting links to many of the things that I enjoyed reading or seeing online during the past month. The picture above is an overgrown Honey Bush flower stalk resting on the top of the green waste cart. This is the weirdest looking plant that I am currently growing my garden. It's from South Africa, Melianthus Major, and it supposedly smells like peanut butter. I disagree on that one.

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Move the Needle, a free 3-day machine quilting online event is happening May13-15.

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Sue Spargo is doing a free block series, Bits & Pieces, combines embroidery with block making in interesting ways.

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A possibly new way to assemble a Potato Chip block. I have yet to make one yet, so I don't know that this is actually new.

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AQS has a a Quilt Across the USA creativity challenge going with 50 state blocks from Bonnie K. Browning's OOP book: "Vintage Quilt Blocks, State by State." Some of them are quite interesting and they're highlighting how to make them with American Made solids which is cool..

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I hadn't looked at Spoonflower in a while, and I really love this fabric collection: Banksia by gabrielleneildesign.

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I'm getting interested in ruler quilting, so this video from Quilting Curve Studio was really fun to watch.

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I kind of want to get some of these tiles made from urchinite - mineralized purple sea urchin shells, so pretty!

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Apparently we've been spraying Roundup on our national forests in very large amounts.

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I'm enjoying listening to some of the concert recordings that are archived here, all sorts of artists available to listen to. Thank you Internet Archive for hosting.

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