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Concrete and Quilters – Part 2

Posted on July 13, 2012 | 13 comments

For Part One, click here.

After a few days for the concrete to cure, my quilting sisters and I met to unveil our work.

We used the hose on the bird baths to wash off the rhubarb leaves.

But the leaves stuck. I guess we left them on too long.

The inside of the birdbath.

The underside of the birdbath. We decided to use a scrub brush to remove the rest of the leaves.

My friends are peeling leaves off the concrete stones.

This is the underside of my birdbath. I love the definition of the veins of the rhubarb leaf!

The basin, or top side of my birdbath. The next time I post, it will have been cleaned from rhubarb bits and sealed with concrete sealer. I already have an idea how I want to display it in garden.

And this is how my hosta stone turned out. I’m so happy with it! I made two, but now I want to make more and bury them in the rock path in my back yard. I think they will add wonderful interest to the landscape.

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Concrete and Quilters – Part 1

Posted on July 10, 2012 | 7 comments

Last Saturday, I met with a few of my quilting sisters, and one awesomely sweet Hubby.

We didn’t rotary cut, baste, chain-piece, or quilt in any form.

But we did play with form.

We love our gardens. So the awesomely sweet Hubby (he belongs to only one of the quilters) mixed up concrete and sand while the rest of us made birdbaths and decorative stones.

These boxes are filled with sand. The sand was loosely shaped like a basin, and then plastic was laid over that.

The largest rhubarb leaves were used to provide the shape for our birdbaths.

Concrete was applied over a leaf and another leaf was pressed into the surface of the concrete.

We look like we know what we are doing, but we don’t. It doesn’t matter. We’re having fun!

For the decorative stones, plastic was laid down on the garage floor and we simply added concrete right on top of a rhubarb leaf. No form necessary. These stones will be laid directly in the lawn or garden.

Other decorative stones were made by spraying a plastic water dish with a non-stick cooking spray and then filling with concrete. This one has a hosta leaf pressed into the concrete.

We know that one can do all kinds of things with this…adding bits of glass, pebbles, tile, etc…, but we opted to keep it simple and natural. We like the leaves.

All of our creations are curing, so the results will be in a future post.