The Big 'M' Yup Moving!

Well I'm in the middle of Moving so I may not get to blog here for a little while since projects will be on hold! The awesome thing is I hope that this will be our last move and I'll get to settle down in our new home! I'll blog some home improvement projects on my Garden Blog when I get a chance since I'm taking photos. So if you subscribe to it you'll be updated when I post!
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Crazy Quilt Throw: Blocks #41 - #48

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Yeay I'm finished piecing now on to embellishment!

Lillian's Hankie Block and Gifty

My friend Lillian asked me if I could work on a sweet block for her that she made using her great grandmother's hankies. Of course I said yes! Just look at the sweetness of this block it will be an honor to work on it!

Lillian also sent me a wonderful gifty!!! I just love all the lace she sent! I never can get enough lace!

Love Out Loud CQ Heart: Framed

Here is a nice photo of the heart mounted. You can see the sparkle better! I put cording around it because I felt it finished it off better.

And here it is framed! I'm having everyone in our small group write a little something on it in purple and I'm the first to contribute!

Love Out Loud CQ Heart: Embellished

Well, you know how it is when you get in a groove you just have to keep going till you finish and so after hours of nonstop work the embellishment is finished!
I was going for a more glam look, I wish that everything would look as good in photos as it does in person. This heart really sparkles!

In this corner is a glass vintage button with dangle earrings that have been re-purposed with a few other buttons pearls and beads. I loved the bird there too.

This motif I created starting off with the three 7mm sweetheart roses and then added ribbon stitch buds and added the fly stitch stems and some bullion tipped lazy daisy leaves. Then I added 4mm sweetheart roses as filler flowers. Then some clear Swarovski crystal beads and a couple of silver toned honey bees to finish it off!

This seam was my starting point, I zig-zagged vintage rhinestones and small bugle beads. They look really special on the dark purple velvet.

This upper corner I stared by adding the glass vintage flower button with clear leaf beads. Then I added sweetheart roses to the seam and clear bugle beads with purple single strand floss straight stitches on either side of the bead. Then I added a butterfly that is a re-purposed earring.

Love Out Loud CQ Heart

This is one of those times where the fabrics just won't photo right so I'm putting a photo with and without a flash. The dark piece in the upper left is navy blue velveteen and the dark piece in the lower right is dark purple velvet.
I'm creating this heart as a graduation gift for our Small Group Student Leader her favorite color is purple so I put as much purple as possible! It will go into a shadow box frame when finished and the paper surrounding will be sentiments written by the other girls in the small group!

Summer Breeze Wall Hanging with Lace Edging

Here is the final result from a wall hanging I made over a year ago from Round Robin blocks! I thought I finished it at the time but hated the end result you can see that post here. Anyway I had the idea back then to add lace around the edge to make up for the crookedness. I had decided on this pretty morning glory lace and that I would coffee dye it...I got as far as doing the coffee dye and then it sat in a drawer until I got it out recently and fiddled with it and started to hand sew the lace on! I've slowly worked on it for about a month now, while in the car, in waiting rooms, chatting with Wendy, and finally finished it! I love the result so much better than before! The lace covers that horrid crookedness and I think it looks better with the blocks! Before the plain solid edge was too stark against the busy blocks and now the lace adds a touch of busyness to the edge that I think better balances the piece as a whole. To me it feels like it brings everything together better.

Crazy Quilt Throw: Blocks #39 - #40

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Two more blocks done and eight left to go! Yeay!!!

Crazy Quilt Throw: Blocks #30 Heart Applique

I got the heart applique finished! It's hard to read in the photo and it is faint looking even in person but in the middle is "Love never faileth" so I'm not sure if I'm going to enhance it somehow or just leave it as is. I would like to put sweetheart roses around the edge maybe cream roses or a hint of gold roses would bring out the lettering better.

Crazy Quilt Throw: Blocks #29 - #38

Well this week I got 10 blocks pieced and basted so now I only have 10 of 48 left to go before I start embellishing!

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On this block when I finished piecing it I felt it needed more gold so I had the idea to do a heart applique the center words say "Love never fails" while waiting during hubby's last hip appointment I basted the rest of the blocks and had time left so I started on the applique. When I embellish this one I have an idea to put sweetheart roses all around the edge, won't that be pretty!

#31 of 48
Here I started using some printed fabric motifs that came with the "Love" fabric. I thought they made nice centers!

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Crazy Quilt Throw: Blocks #26, #27, #28

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I used a hankie for the center and a hankie at the top in this block.

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This block has a piece of white velvet in the upper right.

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In the center is a piece of bridal gown.
Now I only have 20 blocks left to piece!!! Yeay!

CQ Bedspread Turned Throw Quilt: Blocks #17 - #25

As I've been piecing I've been thinking over my delima of the non-useableness that the bedspread would be and I started to think, what if I changed it to a throw...

There are so many bonuses to creating it throw size:
1~Less blocks to make
2~Easier to handle size
3~More practical for use and to be shown off (heehee for what is doing all this work without showing it?)
4~It would be safer from "little claws" and probably other "evils" as well! LOL
And Last but not Least...
5~It would get done sooner!
Therefore my plan is now to create a 48 block (blocks are 8") throw that will be 6 blocks wide by 8 blocks long. The measurements will be 48"Wx64"L and I think that is the perfect size!
Now onto my newest block photos!
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And you know what that means...I'm half way done with piecing!!!

Blue Tatted Heart

Peacock Heart by Birgit Phelps
Here is another heart tatted in Helm's Deep HDT size 80 thread as another Birthday gift for one of my small group girls!

Baby Gift: Applique 'B'

I was slacking and didn't pre-plan making a baby gift for Wendy's shower so last minute I had the idea to do a monogram applique! So I choose 'B' which could be for their last name, baby, or boy since they still haven't picked a name yet! LOL

All I did was open Word type in a 'B' made it size 300 went through the fonts till I found one I liked printed it out. Then I just placed the paper under the fabric, since the fabric was a thin striped textured teal cotton, and traced it with the water erasable pen. I looked up reverse applique since I hadn't done that before and This Web Site was very helpful.
I'm so surprised that I love doing hand applique so much and I love how they turned out! So cute!

CQ Bedspread: Blocks #14,#15,#16

Yesterday I got 3 more blocks pieced!
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The 'Love' stem stitched was my very first time I had gotten the stitch right on a scrap and I just saved that scrap for the right project!

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I love the monogram that was on a hankie given to me! And the tatted edged hankie I found in an antique shop.

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This one has a piece of wedding dress lace in the corner, the photo makes it look blue but it is truly white.