Applique Thursday 5/9/13

Sunday and part of Monday I had a burst of applique frenzy fun. I added to my block 6 of Esther's Forget Me Not BOM:

It's amazing what a photo can tell you.  I have this plant in my garden.  We have three colors white, red and pink.  The stems are gray and the thorns are almost white.  There are different greens in the leaves. I'll tone down the top ones with pencil. And I'm not sure there is enough contrast between the pink flowers( there will be a lot more in the final - testing pinks) and the red background. What do you think?
I also started my next Whimsical block:

and even began my 6th Anna's Garden block:

This set I am doing by needle turn so it takes me longer.

I'll post more tomorrow - I'm dealing with a kidney stone right now and can't do much more, but wanted to get something up in case I don't feel up to it later.

Eye candy (applique or not) would be most appreciated!

Design Wall Monday

Very busy weekend! Friday I took my Mom to a local quilt show for part of her 87th birthday.  It was a great show despite that the air conditioning wasn't working and it was the hottest day of the year (97) so far. Saturday I left at 6:45 to work a yard sale for our local food pantry - whew! - it was hot that day too especially the last two hours between 12 -2. But it was worth it - we made over $600 for food purchases.

On my design wall are pinwheel blocks for a quilt I'm making for DGD.  I only got to do a bit of sewing today, but it will be my priority for the week in between making another top for St. Anne's. That meeting is Thursday.  This week is always busy with all the prep for St. Anne's and getting ready for the Second Saturday sale at the library.  I'm already tired. 



What's on your design wall?  I'm heading over to Judy's Patchwork Times and Lyn's BOMs Away to see what others will be working on this week.

 





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Stash Report 5/4/13

Essentially, nothing in and nothing out. I just used a few scraps from my stash to work on the applique blocks(probably about .01 yards). My numbers are almost the same as last week:

in 3.5 yds.; out .01 yds.

Stash YTD: in 6.5 yds., out 38.22 yds.

Donated YTD: 16.34 yds

Net for 2013: out 31.72 yds.

 

So here are some photos of  flowers in bloom around my yard.

 

 

 

 

 

Were you able to de-stash?  Let's go over to Judy's Patchwork Times and check out the posting there.