Applique Tuesday

Yes!  Got to do some applique - I'm so glad things are getting back to normal. Praise God!

I finished block 2 of the Benjamin Biggs wedding quilt - which is good as block 4 will be out next week.  I hope to at least start 3 later this week.

This is not sized yet - I'm waiting til I have made all of them.  Will be 16" square when finished.

And ---Ta Da!  I even did a little on my Love Entwined.

May not look like much of a difference from when I showed it last, but I was able to add seven flowers, four leaves, and four stems. Phew!

What are you working on?  I'm linking to Connie's Linky Tuesday Party and Esther's WOW. I would love to see your eye candy of any kind.  Leave me a comment and I'll come on over to your blog and check it out. Thanks for stopping by!

Design Wall Monday

First the stash report - nothing used, nothing added. That doesn't mean I haven't been using up fabric.  It's just the one I used came out of St. Anne's stash.  Here's what's on my wall:

Top row is the African Triad quilt I began at Saturday's guild workshop.  We had Sylvia Davis come and show us how to do this interesting design of her own making.  To learn more go here and here. She has a very creative map to make it easy to put together this 31 piece block. It was so much fun. Sylvia was a treat to have as a teacher.

Last night my DH and I watched a movie and I was able to finish my hexie flowers for Soupçon - yeah! That's the second row.

Lastly, I've made my first row of the next frayed edge rag quilt (it's upside down). Here you see the back.

What's on your design wall?  I'm linking to Judy's Patchwork Times and Lyn's BOMs Away. See you there!

FMQ or Eyeing the Line

I'm quilting again.  Got my mystery quilt fixed.

I had washed the flannel back after I had cut it down (bad girl) and it shrunk on two sides.  Since I was doing this QAYG, I didn't notice till I had three rows on (the batting was bigger so I couldn't judge by that).  So I added a pink border all around it to make the back big enough.  Here's what the front looks like:

While I did assemble this using QAYG and row by row - I didn't quilt a lot of it because, surprise! - I can now more easily quilt a 42" top.  I'm making progress!  Because this had so many strong diagonal lines, I decided to quilt it on those lines.  The top picture shows my first line - a diagonal from corner to corner.  

I call this eyeing the line because I'm not going to mark the lines with Frixon pen or chalk lines.  I'm going to eye the line ahead of the needle to the next small block.  Even though I'm using my walking foot, I'm guiding it, so to me it's sort of like free motion.  I wouldn't have been able to do this if I hadn't watched Leah's video on straight line (or SITD) quilting.  To me that is still harder than stippling or a meander.  Hope you got a chance to quilt today!  I'm linking to Leah's Free Motion Project on Friday and Sarah's Can I get a Whoop Whoop. Congrats, Leah, on your finish,  and to Sarah for getting her longarm back running.