Yesterday, during (many) episodes of Charmed ~ I managed to complete the first block of the Homespun BOM “Life Is a Celebration”
Well I finished the hand stitching of the block last night and today I decided to potter around & use the machine to add the borders.
I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.. it’s going to be one bright little quilt (when I finish it!)
Inspired by finishing & knowing Kirsty isn’t too far ahead of me ;) I started prepping Block number 2.
It would seem that I have been putting off needle turn Applique for some time for a VERY good reason!!!
I totally suck at it… but oh well, they say practice makes perfect and considering this is REAL beginner material… I can only get better – can’t I??? Those 2 bottom pieces should have been joining and touching his body, but no matter, I have plans to satin stitch a big body in between ;) LOL!
8 comments:
I wish I hadn't blindly followed the material they used now, yours is going to be amazing when finished. Don't stress about the needleturn I traced my butterfly onto the background with pigma pen and then did the applique in reverse so you can see the pen in places. I am still to try to remove the pen marks :(
Oh and you will get lots of applique practice on the next one :)
That first block is absolutely delightful. I am very jealous of your stitching skills. The clouds had me at helloo...:)
Oh I so want that top block! It is adorable! So clever!!
It looks awesome don't know what you are worried about
So cute! This is an adorable blog, very colorful and creative.
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please email me with your address and I'll send it to you.
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that should be becky@beckykelly.com
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bk
this is darling--and I really like it (I don't always like darling). Nice work
I've just come across your blog. I love the colours you have used in your Life is a Celebration block.
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