Sunday July 21, 2013

I have been stitching away on my Christmas quilt.  It is taking a long time to do and I must admit I am not really crazy about my stitching.  But I suppose it is all a learning curve.  

I have about half of the blocks done now and then I will do the sashing.  Not really sure what pattern I will do for that but at the rate I'm going with it, I will have lots of time to figure it all out.

Once that quilt is finished I am going to start cutting and piecing Ruth's quilt.  I found a cute pattern that I will take ideas from and got the fabric I want to use on it.  I am a bit nervous about it because all her friends had embroidered the snow men blocks and I don't want to ruin it. It will be cute though when I do get it done I'm sure.

This is just the idea I'm thinking of.  The actual blocks I have are on muslin where here they are on a dark blue.

So there are the blocks and there are twelve of them and this is the fabric I will be using for the sashing strips and blocks.  The fabric is variegated from dark to light to dark.  The shades match perfectly with the embroidery.  I think it will be very pretty when done.

Now back I must go to finish off that Christmas quilt so I can get started on this one.

Hope all are having a great day!!!!