What I'm working on...

No finishes to share this week! But I did cut into some fat quarters of Simply Style by Vanessa Christenson. Oh how I love her 2 lines - they're such beautiful, colorful, modern, graphic lines. And they work really well together.

I've had this block drawn up in my design notebook for a while. Then I saw Rita's version over at Red Pepper Quilts and couldn't wait to try it. Vanessa's fabric was perfect for the look I wanted with a couple of stash pieces added for more variety.

The half-square triangles finish at 2 1/2", which makes the star 40" square. I added a small white border to separate it from the binding.

I'm also working on finishing up my Steam Punk quilt. Yeah!

The quilting on this one is a bit unusual from most...
I started out by quilting in the ditch along all of the gray sashing strips.

Then I machine quilted around each of the center circles in the blocks and did the setting triangles. I used this wonderful graphic piece in the triangles which actually gave me some quilting lines to follow. Love when that happens! Since the edges were all stitched down, I decided to finish it off with the binding.

And now I'm hand quilting 2 concentric circles in each block. The hand quilting is giving the quilt the needed texture without super-obvious lines that could be distracting. It's making for some nice relaxing summer evenings. I've been watching Friday Night Lights and catching up on the past years' movies on DVD. I'd welcome any movie suggestions!

Finally, I love to do embroidery. Haven't picked up in years. I probably did my first when I was 8 or 9 years old - learned from my grandmother who was an amazing needleworker! Some day I'll tell you more about her...

These are from Anna Maria Horner's Love from A to Z and for my granddaughters, Elyse and Madelyn.

Well, this looks like a WIP post and it's Wednesday. Guess I ought to link up to Lee over at Freshly Pieced! What are you working on?

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My big mistake!

It was quilted and trimmed before I saw it. I considered ripping out all the quilting, taking the top apart and fixing it. I'm kind of bummed that I messed this great pattern up ~ but I don't think it's in me to tear it apart and start over. My husband couldn't see it - but I'm sure you do!

A quilt for the baby's room :)

In more successful projects...

Fabric leaves, cut from Amy Butler prints, decoupaged onto a painted canvas board.

My completed embroidery project, simply backed and bound.

Back to the big mistake - I'd love to know - would you take it apart?

Oh and BTW, I've recently hopped onto Instagram. I'm enjoying taking daily photos of what I'm working on - clammon if you want to follow me!        . . . Cindy

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A free pattern and more!

Yeah! Free patterns! You can get my table runner pattern for free at Martingale's blog Stitch This! It's from the book  Gathered From the Garden and will put you in the mood for Spring (if you're not already there). And if you don't appliqué, try placing a large-scale print in the Snowball blocks. I've done it and it looks fantastic!

A little sneak peek at some progress I made this weekend...

My second Sunburst is now quilted and bound...

with some fancy quilting...

The pattern is available in this book:

                                                                  

And finally, I haven't done embroidery in years, so it was fun to start on Anna Maria Horner's pattern Love from A to Z. I'm stitching the word "Sew" although that's not what my husband thought of when he saw this much sitting on the table!

... I just have the "W" to go! . . . Cindy

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