Design Wall Monday 12/16/13

Haven't had a minute to work on these scrappy trips so they are still on the design wall waiting for me to get to them.  Hopefully after Tuesday, I'll be able to at least look through some St. Anne's bags of fabric and find some strips I can use for them. 

I've been busy with DGKs so I've only had time to use about a fat eighth (or .13 yds) of scraps for my LE.  But I didn't buy anything so that's good.  YTD out: 102.57 yds.   Here's where I'm at with the LE:

Nothing is fused down (yes, I'm doing mine by raw edge applique or I'll never get done), so everything can change once I have all the flowers in place. 

Another busy week ahead. This may be my only post until Hexie Friday. Hence, I'm linking to Judy's Design Wall Monday, Lyn's BOMs Away, Connie's Linky Tuesday, and Esther's Wow.  Do stop by.

One last thing:  Happy Beethoven's Birthday!

Listen to some of his passionate music today.

Hexie Friday Finish with FMQ

I went to a Christmas banquet with DH.  It was very nice, however, they have a long plant auction as part of it.  The plants are great and I'm happy for them to be getting some new plants, but I have no interest other than admiring the plants. This year I came prepared and brought along my hexie flowers kit.  I completely finished the one I was working on in the two hours it took for that part of the program.

 The one on the left is the new one and you can see I started the third of this trio, too.

My other finish is this baby quilt I'm giving to the foster child whose name was on the tag I picked up at church.  Pedro is 2 years old.  I hope he'll like it.  Has cute animal flannel on back. It started out as a Pat Sloan pattern of which I only did the center.

I used freezer paper copies of the white star in the middle for the blue blocks, fmqued squiggly diagonal lines through the small squares and did loops and stars in the border. Learned I like warm and natural batting best - especially over this medium loft I've had in the quilt room for a long time.  Now I know why.  Wish I could count batting as part of de-stashing.

Show us your hexies.  Linky below.  I'm also linking to Amanda's Finish it Up Friday and Leah's Free Motion Quilting Project.

Applique Tuesday on Wednesday

After the past two days of baby sitting, prepping for medical tests, Christmas shopping (not - didn't find much!) and getting ready for St. Anne's - I barely had squeezed much applique fun into my time.  I did add a teeny bit to my poor neglected LE:

The background is a lot lighter cream.

 

Finally decided on a vase fabric.  Thanks to all who helped my out with this.  Were you more successful?  Sure would like to see some eye candy of any kind to soothe the harried soul.  Linky below.  I'm linking to Esther's WOW and Connie's Linky Tuesday.  See you there.