Redwork and Wool Applique

Still mending here with the wheelchair and unable to put full weight on foot------------I can sure emphasize with anyone in a wheelchair! The back on one hand is black and blue due to ramming it into doors as I try to go through with my wheelchair!!!!

But I have still been able to work on some redwork baskets and wool applique. I have all the sheep done and some of the flowers---I have them basted on with the washable basting glue that somes in a little tiny bottle---I really like that stuff! I'm sewing them down with tiny stitches of matching thread. I couldn't reach my embroidery floss, so am settling for doing it with thread. But I am liking the way it is turning out.

I haven't done all those baskets in this short of a time, but have worked on one basket since I have been laid up----LOL!!!

I'm anxious to get back to my quilting---especially the Project Linus quilts!!!! I ordered fabric yesterday for the Quilt Barns quilt from Eleanor Burns---I'm excited to get to work on that one. I like Eleanor Burns instructions---she is so clear about everything! The book is lovely. I'm going to make the 6" blocks size, that way it should fit on the wall I have picked out for it!!!!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Another Mystery Quilt Finished

This Mystery Quilt was the one that I showed pieces from the other day and today I finished the top............I wish now I would have used some of the red from the border in the center of the top, but hindsight and all that---next time I will know what to use!!!! It was a fun pattern to do and many thnaks go to Valerie on the Quilting Bee Forum for doing this! She has done several Mystery Quilts for the Bee and they have all been fun to do!


Me, I wouldn't know how to begin to write a mystery quilt---where would you even start-0--guess it's not my thing to do, but I enjoy following the patterns of others. Now I'm working on a little wool applique pin cushion that I got from The Little Wool Shop. They have lots of neat things there. I decided I wanted to try something in wool again after I did the one before of the geraniums in the crock with a flag....but I wanted to do something little............so this is what I found!


Today is Sit and Sew day at Quilt Mercantile---I always look forward to that because it is such a good time to just relax and sew with friends. We talk about just about anything and everything and get to see what each other is working on-----I've seen some beautiful works of art there!!!!


Let quilting help you make someone smile!


Jan

Several Projects.......

Finished the wool applique wall hanging! It was an experience, I'll say that and I don't think I am sold on working with wool--it is very soft and kind of hard to hold in place--I used a fusible, but that didn't hold, but I am happy with the way that it turned out, so all is well!!!

The red pinwheel top is from the Strips and Strings book by Evelyn Sloppy. I'm not sold on this one, but perhaps some child will like all the colors in it!

The last picture is a picture of the first 3 blocks in Aunt Bea's Parlor---baskets filled with flowers that will be joined with fabrics from the 1930's. The floss colors are just right!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan