Where is spring?

If this photo was from the start of winter I would just think how pretty the tree looked, but sadly this photo was taken yesterday. I think spring is never going to come. Hopefully it will be here so. This winter has been a long one.

On the bright side I finally got all my 3D petals made, here they all are. At the moment they look like little finger covers lol. They will look more petals when I applique the flowers onto the quilt.

Floss

This and that

I have done some sewing, just no blogging. A couple of weekend ago I when to friends for a sew evening, I had planned on working on the guild BOMs from last year, but I didn't take enough background fabric with me. I still played with the blocks for a bit as it had been a long time since I had seem them.

Luckily I had taken along another project. Its Christmas in March. LOL. Over Christmas I decided that I needed new Christmas place mats that go with the table runner I received as part of SSCS a couple of years ago.

I made 6 of these. As I have a narrow table and the runner is quite wide I made these shorted than I normally would, but I had some old ones this size so I know they will work. I love the blue snowman fabric.

Last weekend I put the blocks form the BOM together, as I would have felt bad if I put it back with the UFO s.

I think I will add a border with the lighter of the blue fabrics, this is the only one, other than the background, that I started with more than a fat quarter. Will have to play as I'm not sure if I have enough fabric. I am liking the effect of the different corner stones.

I have also been a bit lucky and have receive two lovely parcels in the mail.
On the left is a pattern I won on Teresa blog. I still have to go and get the templates photo copied before I can start, but thing this will be a great hand sewing project.

On the right is a gift from Andrea for guessing how many hexagons were in a pile. I love the little bag and will need to keep it away from Little Miss. The card is very cute and I think the fabric is very me. I not sure what but know I will find a great project for it.

Thanks again to both of you.

Floss

Winding Ways

Last Monday night at guild one of the ladies shared with us how to make winding ways. This is a fun, quilt as you go project. We were told to bring a quilt sandwich about fat quarter size, and scraps, I used a charm pack for my scraps.

To start I cut leave shapes out of my charms, just free hand, so they are all a bit different shapes and sizes. Then marked the background fabric with spins to put the leaves on, next I just started quilting the leaves on. This is how far I got that evening.

I think the back is looking pretty cool too. This is a great project for practicing free motion quilting, as there is really no wrong way to make it.

Today I quilted the rest of the leaves on. It doesn't look like much now, but from seeing the sample I know this will look great when I add the spine. I just need to go shopping to find the right rick-rack or ribbon.

This is a fun project.

Floss