Faith's Block

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Here's what I have been working on lately.

The first is the whole block , the second is my contribution

Faith's theme for her block was Peter Rabbit. Now it has been a very long time since I read this story. My kids' favorite book was "Dinosaur Dos and Don'ts"

The only thing I remembered was Peter's Rabbit hanging on the bush so that is what I did.

The vines for the bush were done in alternating bar chain stitch. The leaves in detached chain with a varigated thread. A very large loose buttonhole stitch was used for the netting. The net is hard to see but maybe if you click on the picture it will expand enough to see it.

I used some very dark purply red glass beads for the blackberries. 2 beads were sewn on together, then 3 more strung together going the opposite way to make it look more berry like.

I used felt and appliqued the jacket on.

I thought of using embroidery thread and crocheting it in a slip stitch but that would have takens hours and sometimes my attention span is quite short. I must have learned that from my kids. LOL

I also did the yellow featherstitch with the orange french knots above the patch and the white buffalo head stitch below it too.

I was going to add more but the block is getting pretty full and there are at least 2 more people to work on it after me.

This is the last block for the RR I have right now, so I will return to my Star Trek cq " Boldly"

Let's see if it is talking to me now. If not I have about 20 different UFO's to work on

Later,
Lauri

Boldly and Pinups

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I have been busy this week. I got one block done on my "Boldly" quilt. It isn't too bad. I need to bead this yet. I think I like the green flower border the best. Only 15 more to go. LOL

Then I spent the rest of the week on the Pinup quilt. All the embroidery is done by machine using 2 strands of thread. For the liitle accent squares in the sashing I used my husband's favorite color. His first car was "71 Cougar with a 351 Cleveland Engine and PosiTrac. This color that he calls Robin's Egg Blue is the exact color of that car. So I put it in in Rememberance of that former love. Now I have to wait for the fabric I won on Ebay for the border. He sure is a spoiled man. He's so lucky to have me.

That's about it. More CQing to do

LAter,

Lauri

Progress

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I have been working on "Boldly". I am just having a hard time getting into it. It isn't speaking to me yet. I have been having a very hard time getting my stitching even lately. I start out fine on a seam then my stitches get bigger and bigger as I go.

The seams I have done are not nearly done yet. I thought I would just lay down a basic pattern first, then go back and build on those so I can make sure the colors are well balanced.

So since "Boldly" and I are not on speaking terms yet, I decided to do another NEW project. (Like I don't have enough already!)

My daughter Molly picked out the smiley face fabric , then I turned it into a MP3 player case. It has a little pocket for her extra memory sticks. I decided to use velcro instead of trying to finagle a zipper aroung 2 corners. A bonus with the velcro is that she can run the wire for the headphones right over the top of it and it will seal around it. I think that on the one I do for Katie I will make the velcro a little more secure. It did turn out pretty cute, at least I think so. Next up will be a tiger inspired case

I have also posted a pic of the Ugly block that I am trying to transform into a swan. A group of us on the CQ for Newbies group are attempting to do the impossible. I plan to embellish it in oranges, yellows, greens and some black. I think I will put a huge spray of SRE white daisies on the left side. I also need to do something with the polka dot piece. All of the dots are badly stained, or now that I look more at it I think that the white dye is starting to disintegrate. One estimate I heard is that these blocks could be almost 50 years old. I think I will just try to ignore some of the fabrics and just carry on with a gardening theme.

Any suggestions for help on this would be greatly appreciated

Also I have joined a webring. Around the Block. Please look for the icon in my sidebar and go visit their sites and see all the pretty things they are doing

Off to work on straighter stitches or maybe make a bauble bag like Ati did on her blog http://malinaplass.blogspot.com/. I think they are really cute or maybe I'll ..............

Later,

Lauri

Boldly

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"Boldly"

That is the name of my newest crazy quilt project. My plan is to blog all year long on the progress on this quilt.

You can go to my flikr site( there's a link in my sidebar) to see all the blocks

These blocks are much more angular than I normally do but I thought it lent itself well to the theme.

There are 16 blocks that will be 9" finished, this is much smaller than my previous blocks which were 20" square. I am getting faster at piecing which is the bane of my cq-ing efforts

I will not be using a lot of my normal flowery seam treatments. So if you have any ideas for futuristic or science looking patterns let me know. This will be quite a challenge for me

My son says these all look like black holes.LOL

I am not sure at this point whether there will be alot of embellishments other than the seams, we will see as we go along.

I am planning to do some really strange looking plant life on the 2 landscape blocks so watch for those

Any ideas at all will be greatly appreciated, so bring them on!

Next up to piece is one I am calling "Janet's Fault".This was inspired by a piece of fabric Janet used in several of her patches. When I found that print, I just kept buying fabrics that coordinated, before I knew it I had about 30 prints that went together. I plan to do this one with the landscape piecing method. I want it to be very antique-y looking. This is another stretch for me.

I also plan a pinup quilt for my hubby, I'll post on that too

Why, may you ask do I have so many projects at once. The answer is that I get BORED, very easily so I like to switch off.

I also still have my original cq that I have posted about before , so I will keep motoring on that one too.

Well I've got a LOT to do so I better get busy

Later,

Lauri