deeroo designs: English paper piecing

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

For my Heart....Mini Mania Challege Lucky #13

Oh my goodness....the Mini Mania Challenge #13 put to us this month with a

British history lesson was a thinker!

This was the challenge...

"It is 950 years since the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and 350 years since the Great Fire of London in 1666 and so we will be working on these numbers only; 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9."

Hmmmmm....

Ok....how about some strategic dates in our family?

1959 hearts 1961...Roman numeral style!:)

This is a birthday present for my honey!

Here was another challenge put on by the Franklin Park Arts Center.

"Which came first the chicken or the egg?"

I said both...can you see the feathers?!:)

Always working on some hand stitching project!

Changed our minds about purple!!!

Monday, February 29, 2016

Mini Mania Challenge # 12....February Craziness

Those ladies over at the Mini Mania Challenge on Flickr put their crazy hat on for this month!

A three inch foundation pieced pineapple block from a free template by Little Mushroom Cap!

Do you know how many pieces are in that one three inch block?

THIRTY-THREE!!!

We were instructed to make as many as we wanted as long as the mini was no more than 24"....

....so one was enough for me!!!:) It's only 12" so challenge complete!!

When my eye-sight cleared a side swap at the Mini QT happened. A zippy pouch for Sabrina....she has two white bunnies!:)

We both like the same thing....

(What Sabrina sent me!!:)

...so we ended up using the same color!!

Over at the PIPs round robin an addition was needed for Susan from OZ. Top left was Susan's starting block. Underneath that was the sweet potted plant by Jan from the UK. Then keeping the theme Ethne from the UK added the half pot in the center. Onward to Scotland where Lynz added the four wee succulents. Of course the theme had to continue so I added the "window mullion" and the other half of the pot and a wonky cactus. Didn't mean for it to be wonky....stuff happens!;)

More happenings....finished pack #2 in the Glorious Hexagon Sew-Along. Phew!

Weather keeps happening too. We still have snow on the ground from the big blizzard last month! Yesterday we had a huge thunderstorm...one inch of rain in half an hour....and a rainbow!:)

Sunday, January 31, 2016

New Year, New Mini Mania Challenge #11

Hmm...what to do for the Mini Mania Challenge?

Had some scraps.

Leftovers from this quilt.

Which was in this book.

Challenge 11 was to make a sampler....with nine blocks.

So I did....eight around the border and one big one in the middle.

A bit of hand quilting with perle cotton to finish.

I love the stripe stems....and everything else about it!

So glad I get to keep it!

In the meantime we had a Blizzard...

...a really big Blizzard with over 30+ inches of snow.

There was loads of time to do some English paper piecing. The Glorious Hexagon quilt pack #1!

Of course that was after we did some shoveling!!

Monday, August 24, 2015

Wood and Flowers

Sixth finish of the 3rd quarter is a small runner/wallhanging that came from a previous finish.

The runner here was going to be too long if using all the parts so I saved out a bit. Hand quilted it trying to make a wood grain since the inspiration for this pattern was a set of stairs. Would have worked better if done on the sewing machine but still pretty cool. My bro-in-law liked it!:)

Finally finished all the flowers but when putting them on the floor I didn't like how they looked AND it would barely be a lapsized quilt! Want it to be bigger. Not making more of those puppies so...

...fifty-four 10" squares were cut out of the leftover prints and Grunge solids. This will be so much easier than sewing all the flowers together...and versatile. Fifty-two more to go!!