A Rose

I have all the pieces hand stitched for my first complete American Beauty Rose block. I enjoyed the process. I think I need to cut away some of the backs on the rose applique. I learned I need to iron the piece from the back to actually get them to stick to the front. Some of the pieces tried to jump ship during the stitching process. It took less than week to attach and sew. I think I can handle that. So far it is a go for a tabletopper. If all goes well then, we will consider a wall hanging, then a lap quilt, then a bed quilt, etc.

I finished the first set of hourglass blocks for my civil war version of En Provence.

I have been ironing all 576 bonus 2 inch triangles from Midnight flight to use in scrap crystals. That is alot of ironing .

I have been making more of the pieces for the Rose quilt and I am ready to prepare another block for hand stitching.

I am so close on this sock, that I have been more obsessed with working on it in the evenings.

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Moving Forward

Thanks to the quiltathon weekend, all my border units for midnight flight are finished.

as a matter of fact, all my units are pieced. hooray. There are a gobzillion pieces I have put together a little at a time as an away from home sewing project.

Now it is time to retire this quilt from active duty and find another no brain sewing project to take to my small quilt groups. But I have 576 bonus triangles from midnight flight in purple or blue and neutral  that will be the seeds for scrap crystals. I need 684. that shouldn't take long.
I came up 5 units short for piecing the hourglass blocks for pfeffernuese. on the plus side, at this point, there is no stress over what to do with the leftover units haha.

My En Provence  bright is all ready to start assembly

My civil war version needs the 4 patches and both hour glass units.

There is a final link up at Quiltville for En Provence. There will be so many wonderful, inspiring places to visit and see here

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Great Weekend

I hope everyone had a great weekend - I did. The weather was great, and I played in our church little band performance for the first time ever.  I have never played a band instrument of any kind until 5 weeks ago. All of my children played in band throughout their school years. We have 7 State titles among them. I was so proud of them. My children played  a trumpet, 2 french horns, a flute, and a trombone. Sons 4 and 5 were already recruited for this little band, and they snagged me by saying I could play with my sons. Oh yes! please! The prospect was thrilling, until I realized I have never played anything. Yikes! I was offered the bells, umm that seemed easy enough, I can play the piano a bit. I practiced and practiced and Saturday was our big performance. I didn't bomb! Can you imagine? I didn't bomb it. wow. And there was all kinds of pride playing with my very talented sons, who were just amazing together. They had not played together, as there are 6 years between them. They grow up so fast.. I get all teary eyed as I think of all the amazing moments I had as a Mother watching and listening to them over the years. sigh...

I made progress on midnight flight flip and sew corners. I opted to make bonus triangles. When I am done ( in the not so distant future), I will have 576 bonus triangles in purple and blue. It takes 684 for Scrap Crystals by Bonnie Hunter, so  a mere 100 more and I will have another quilt in the making. I am using the new Bonus Buddy from Quiltville and I think it is working, the bonus triangles are coming out at 2 inches.

 After a bit of "what was I thinking", I was ready to tackle forest fancy quilt again. All I have to do are the fireflies, the angles are a bit challenging for me. Sew a little, rip a little, repeat. Eventually, I will end on a sew a little, and, poof, there will will be fireflies.

Slow stitch Sunday, I finished hand sewing the binding on the pink flannel baby quilt. And I have a finish.

I see all the wonderful pictures of quilts, on blogs, taken outside, with such lovely backgrounds, and all I get is dead leaves and wind. sigh...
This was a free pattern from somewhere. I can't see any information on the paper at all. I want to try and share it , notes and all. Hope I do it right.

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