I Am A Bowl Freak, Part 2

I love bowls, especially the big decorative ones that are designed for your dining room table. I have a few of them, and you can read about them here. Now that I have finished the October table quilt, I need a bowl for it, so I went to Home Goods this morning.

I found these two leaf shaped glass bowls for eight bucks each. The green fabric scraps are fabrics I used in the Early Autumn quilt.  Yup. That was easy.

Here are the bowls on the Fall House Top quilt I use for November. They're more like small platters.

 I think they are going to be better on the Early Autumn quilt, but speaking of leaves...

This was the view outside my living room window on Sunday afternoon.

I created a Blog Page that shows all my table quilts. You can find it here. There is also a link on the header.

Tickled Pink

The Tickled Pink diamond quilt is all finished. I sewed the binding while watching the finals of the tennis at Roland Garros. 

I put the quilt on the table to see what it looks like. When July comes, I'll put an extra leaf in the table so the top will be bigger and more of the quilt will be visible. This looks so pretty and feminine (duh). It will be such a lovely tablescape when the table is set with white dishes and silverware.

I'm also a bowl freak. I found this in the local Home Goods one evening. I had stopped at the grocery store in the same mall for something I needed for a recipe and I thought I'd cruise over to HG to see if they had anything interesting.  As soon as I saw this pink flowered bowl I picked it up and headed toward the cash register. Pink bowls are kinda rare.

I Am a Bowl Freak

My name is Lynne and I am addicted to bowls. I think a nice dining room table should have a nice bowl on it. So I have a few bowls.

Don't believe me? Check out these photos...

This is the Christmas Random Plank quilt, with a red bowl for the holidays. (Yeah, Millie decorates the table also.)

My Picnic Table quilt (a Rail Fence) that I use in the winter seems to like this white bowl.

The Blue Deco quilt is topped by this asymmetrical silver bowl with blue on the inside.

The Fall House Top quilt is graced with a large wooden bowl.

My friends Julie and Larry have given me a couple of very beautiful bowls that I love very much (even more so because Larry made them.) Here's one of them.

So now that Spring is here, I'm using Julie's Hidden Potential quilt on my dining room table. It's green. OK, maybe it isn't all green, but it's spring-y. And it needed.. okay, I wanted... a new bowl for it, so I went shopping.

These were the two that spoke to me at the store. I set them down on the floor next to each other so I could decide. Wasn't a tough decision.

But you know me. I'm never satisified with the status quo. I've gotta keep pushing. So I drove myself to another store. You know, that import one.

I walked around and found this. The glove should give you a sense of the scale. This plastic covered wire bowl is about 36" long. They had a smaller one, about 18" long. I held them up and asked the clerk, "OK, if this is the Pappa Bear, and this one is the Baby Bear, do you have a Mama Bear?"

Um no.

Hmm... I had to think. I don't even have a table cover for this bowl yet.  Well, not quite yet, but I know which one it will grace.

YEAH!!!

*btw, the table covers are not all the same size, and that's intentional. The Fall House top is the largest, designed so it will fit the table with all three extra leaves in place and both end flaps raised. At that size, it can seat twelve. The Black and White Slashed Squares isn't quite as large, but will fit the table with two leaves in place, so it will seat eight to ten. I knew the big bowl would work on the table when it is extended.