There was quite a fighting accomplished yesterday...grocery shopping, catching upward on housework, together with quilting the Alley Cats Quilt Guild. That was variety of fun. Being a small-scale quilt, it was slow plenty to complete inward only a few hours' time. I used a lite golden inward the bobbin. There was already a partial bobbin wound, together with therefore it was an slow choice.
For my top thread, I chose this variegated thread amongst golds, tans, together with lite browns.
Here's the color number. I think these variegated threads came from Threadart.
Then I started in. Down the middle border, I did some loops, together with therefore I worked outward from there, outset amongst the "quilt blocks." I outlined only about all the appliques together with quilted the "blocks" amongst a meandering vine. This quilt has hearts on the front end together with back, together with therefore my vine has randomly placed heart-shaped leaves.
Moving to the 3 inner borders...these were narrow, together with therefore I only continued on amongst my looping. There wasn't a lot of room to create anything real fancy.
The side yesteryear side edge was a trivial wider, together with therefore I did a loopy paw impress there.
Finally, the outer edge is done amongst continuous hearts.
With a interruption for housework, I spent virtually 3 hours on this. Here's where it stands.
Here's how it looks from the back.
And here's a close-up of the back.
Today I'll stitch a binding on together with ready it for hand-stitching. I don't think I accept whatever binding strips cutting yet, together with therefore I'll accept to figure out what textile to purpose there.
Switching gears, did yous know Feb is National Embroidery Month? No, neither did I until Meg Hawkey announced a stitch-along she's doing on social media. Well, it looks similar fun, therefore count me in! Every day, she'll travel stitching a one-inch foursquare on a larger piece. You tin download the instructions together with free pattern correct here. If yous click on that link, you'll notice the pattern inward the upper left corner of the page. The icon below is from the Crabapple Hill Studios Facebook page. I'm hoping she won't heed if I borrow it to advertise her event. Here, she's showing the supplies you'll ask to participate.
So, I've been inward gathering mode. Of course, yous tin create it whatever way yous desire to, but I'm using the supplies she suggests. I've ordered the floss from her website. H5N1 span of days ago, I decided to seize amongst teeth the bullet together with buy a laid of Prismacolor Premier colored pencils. I've been eyeing these for months.
Just expect at all those delectable colors.
She has a good video on her website demonstrating how to color embroidery designs amongst colored pencil. There's 1 for crayon in that location too. I've used crayon to tint my embroidery designs before. You mightiness retrieve it from the Gingerbread Square quilt.
Crayons deadening quickly, making it hard to instruct skillful results amongst them, together with therefore I've been thinking virtually trying it amongst pencils. This small-scale projection seems a skillful fourth dimension to give it a try. Also, this projection requires an embroidery needle together with a size v milliner's needle, together with that tin alone hateful 1 thing...the dreaded bullion stitch. I'm going to man-up together with create it again, or overstep trying.
Okay, therefore that doesn't laid out until Feb 1st. In the meantime, I'll travel tracing out together with coloring my design. On today's agenda is to brand some blocks. This week's Tiny Tuesday block is waiting for me. The newest 1 is a 3 dimensional bow necktie block designed yesteryear Angie at Quilting on the Crescent. You tin notice her tutorial correct here. Also, did yous run across the Countdown to Christmas blocks posted on the Moda Bake Shop during the calendar month of December? They were therefore beautiful, together with I saved each one. Now, there's a sew-along happening over at Mama Spark's World. They're going to travel making 2-3 blocks per month, together with therefore I think I'll bring together inward in that location too. As I've mentioned, this is the twelvemonth of scraps inward my sewing room, together with therefore every projection volition assistance me brand a dent inward my ever-accumulating piles.
That volition likely hold me busy for 1 day, but if it isn't enough, therefore I accept something else waiting inward the wings. I've been circling the icon of my grandcat, Cricket, for some time. I'd similar to complete out the calendar month of Jan making her pawtrait.
Once I instruct started on them, they become pretty fast. Time to instruct this pretty daughter going.