Two Grandmothers Moving Along

Today I quilted 6 more of the blocks for the Two Grandmothers quilt.  That makes 9 total, and 16 to go, so I'm making pretty good time on it.  Here's what I did today.

I was all set to put musical notes on the Banbury Cross block as many of you suggested.  But then I started looking at the block and realized that I don't really have enough space to do something like that and make it look right.  Pretty much all of these blocks have just a small amount of space for quilting.  All of them require some sort of meandering design, and so that's what I ended up doing.

For this one, I decided to meander the trail made by the stick of the horse.  I looked up the definition of a "cock horse" and it turns out it simply means a toy horse.  I had one of these broomstick horses when I was a kid.  I remember riding it all over the place.  So I meandered his trail all over the block.  Here, let Smitty show you.

Twinkle, twinkle little star was a no-brainer.

Who knows this nursery rhyme?

See Saw Margery Daw,

Jacky shall have a new master;

Jacky shall earn but a penny a day,

Because he can't work any faster.

Does that make any sense to you?  Me neither.  This little blurb from Wikipedia might help:

The seesaw is one of the oldest 'rides' for children, easily constructed from logs of different sizes. The words of "See Saw Margery Daw" reflect children playing on a see-saw and singing this rhyme to accompany their game. No person has been identified by the name Margery Daw and so it is assumed that this was purely used to rhyme with the words 'seesaw'.

The rhyme may have its origins as a work song for sawyers, helping to keep rhythm when using a two-person saw.

Anyhoooo...

I had in mind to try to quilt some see saws on this, but again, I ran into a problem with not enough space, and no way to do it in a continuous line sequence.  This is what I was considering.

It was easy enough to quilt, but I had to do it on such a small scale and then try to connect it to the next one somehow.  When I practiced it, it was losing itself in the translation.  I ended up just doing an up and down motif.  Good enough.

And then, Mother Goose.  She doesn't really have her own nursery rhyme.

I decided to quilt goose footprints on her block.

Okay now, this is where the whole collection of nursery rhymes goes off the rails:  Barber Shave A Pig.

Barber Barber shave a pig

How many hairs will make a wig?

Four and twenty that's enough

Then pat the pig with the powder puff.

Whatever.  I decided to make pigs' hooves on his block.

Finally, Jack and Jill.  This one was fairly easy too.

I decided on tumbling buckets.

So that was enough sewing for me today.  I could have gone on, but when I do it for too long, my neck, shoulders, and right hand start to hurt.  I decided to stay on the conservative side.  If I can do six a day for the next couple of days, I'll be finished in three days.  I'm going to quilt a sort of heart vine in the border and in the sashings.  In fact, I noticed there is a heart vine in the fabric for the sashings, so I'll do something like that.  I'm feeling optimistic about having this finished by next weekend.

And check this out!  Every one of my sixteen little pots has something growing now.  Score!  

Makes me hungry for salsa.  How did your Sunday go?