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my creative week number two.... spring bunnies and little hexies from Not Afraid of Color

For part two of my creative week, I have two things to share. The first is my Stay-At-Home-Round-Robin quilt, "Spring Bunnies" is finished! Yea!

I made this into a spring theme this year, figuring out how to adjust prompts to fit into that!

"Spring Bunnies" 39" X 47"

We have had 6 prompts, and I've posted that week's blocks each time, with pattern sources and close ups. This week I will just share some close ups of my choices

The first prompt was "spool" blocks, and mine is in the image below... I did one with flowers as ...

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Hand quilting step by step…

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Sewing Saturday from Not Afraid of Color

Welcome to this week's sewing round up... The pic is of a block by Lilyella done with EPP onto paper templates. I am into fall colors now that our trees have begun to wear them...

EPP is done in sections onto paper, and this time I glue basted them

then stitched them together with a whip stitch

into a kind of kaleidoscope block

Which I'm trying to decide how to set

I enjoyed this music this morning as I typed this...autumn morning bossa nova

when I finished the block, all the seams meeting in such a pinpoint ...

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Hands from Where Art & Life Meet

I’ve always worked with my hands. As a child it was embroidery with a hoop and sewing my own clothing. At around nine years old my mother taught me to knit, then there was a brief macrame obsession in the 70’s where I decorated my bedroom with intricately knotted macramé pot hangers into which I […]

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Sweet Persimmons from Nestlings By Robin

I have never had a persimmon

and maybe I should try

one now that I have named

a quilt after them:)

New in the November

issue of AQ Magazine

meet Sweet Persimmons.

This sweet design started

out in a 30s rendition.

Once I started thinking in Autumn

colors, I came up with this palette.

Still really like it and may have

to put this grouping to work

in another project!

Looks great, right?

Sometimes I can't see past my

own vision but I also had

this Sandy Gervais print sitting

around that I had been wanting

to use in ...

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learning from experts from Not Afraid of Color

buttonhole filler around center, backstitch, flystitch, featherstich

I am taking a class thru blueprint with Sue Spargo.

so much to learn from experts, right?
I have been doing embroidery since I was about 7, and made a Christmas gift for my mother.
When we were allowed to wear jeans to school, I embroidered the legs of my bell bottoms, until it was mostly crewel threads holding them together. I sure wish I had those today, wonder what happened to them?
I've done this a long time, but there is always, ALWAYS, something to learn...
At first I just watched ...

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Hand Work from From the Strawberry Patch...

There's nothing more relaxing for me in the evenings, while watching TV, than hand work. It's centering: the rhythm of the needle passing in and out and the feeling of getting something accomplished that won't be undone immediately is satisfying. I finished the binding on this latest tumbler quilt (this has got to be at least the fifth or sixth one that I've made) all cut from charm squares. I

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Hand Work from From the Strawberry Patch...

There's nothing more relaxing for me in the evenings, while watching TV, than hand work. It's centering: the rhythm of the needle passing in and out and the feeling of getting something accomplished that won't be undone immediately is satisfying. I finished the binding on this latest tumbler quilt (this has got to be at least the fifth or sixth one that I've made) all cut from charm squares. I

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Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum visit from Not Afraid of Color

by Randa Milford I think

Just before the illness took hold of my life, we drove to Golden CO to see the quilt museum and walk around. We really like Golden and the stores are nice to Milo.

The museum is beautiful and we were lucky to have a docent walk around with us and talk about the quilts. We learned how the curator chose from the large number of entries too. They range from hand pieced and quilted to a modern version of just cutting hexies and fusing them to a background

don't think I'd call this ...

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'Currant Pinwheels' in Simply Vintage! from Nestlings By Robin

Thank you all for sticking through

some of the boring posts this past week

and here is your reward:)

Here is the new issue of Simply Vintage,

one of my Favorite publications!!

Inside you will find a sweet

red and green treat based on

this antique quilt below.

This is Coxcombs and Currants which I own.

I thought I would try designing a

smaller piece inspired by the quilt

but in a different colorway.

These are some of my other 'go-to'

colors; red, orange, black.

I really like the small loop design within the leaves.

This one was all done ...

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Revisiting My Cherry Tree Quilt from Humble Quilts

The weather turned cold and that means it was time to bring out the Cherry Tree Quilt to continue hand quilting this 100x100 quilt! The end is in site!

I've cross hatched 1 1/2" apart and around each applique piece.

I've been working on the border, going one direction all the way around. It's time to start my alternate direction!! Whoop! Whoop!

I think I may have stopped outlining the applique at some point on the border so will need to complete that on my way around the quilt.

I added the fun and unique motifs ...

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