Bunny garden

I found this embroidery project on the web at Willowberry Designs.  The instructions are very good and the embroidery worked up pretty quickly.  My favourite block is the bunny garden one.  So sweet.

My Sewing Case

My DD came fro a visit and even brought the Grandbabies.  If that wasn't enough she had sewn up this darling little sewing case.  And she gave it to me as a hostess gift.So it stands to reason that I have to reciprocate.  So after watching Iron Man 2 I am on the home stretch of her citrus blocks.

Although I did hear some rumblings that maybe a few more blocks and we would have a queen size quilt....

She is so clever at reusing all those men's dress shirts for the background squares, and then convincing me to pick out the cool citrus colours from my stash.  And where we were running short especially in the yellows she importuned her grandmother.  Very clever indeed.

A June Evening

'nough said

What's on my quilting frame?

Now for the hand quilting....

Pyramids

I have also squeezed in some time to work with a new ruler.  It's the Fons & Porter pyramid ruler.  I just happened to be watching a taped episode of Fons & Porter working on Kalamkari strippy quilt from the Sept/Oct 2008 magazine.  It turns out I had just purchased the exact ruler they were using on the show a month ago in Red Deer called Kwilted Keepsakes.  How amazing is that?

Anyhow, I just had to try some.

I used the same bali prints for these as for the bow-tie mat ( I bought them in Moose Jaw at The Quilt Patch).  They were a bunch of 2.5" strips.  Now sadly used up.  No tears here though.

Completed Bow-tie Mat

I just realized that I didn't show off my new Bow-Tie Mat made from a tutorial I found on the internet.  Well here it is.

I am very pleased with the result and the quilting itself was sooo fun.

My New Old Rooster Quilt

I dug out these finished blocks last week and started sewing the blocks together.  The pattern is from Quiltmaker's All-Time Favourite series of magazines from Spring 2002.  I seem to have misplaced my copy of the magazine itself, but here are the blocks.

I am kind of crazy for needle-turned applique as you can see but in my usual way I sort of loose interest once the applique is done.  Oh, sigh....

But after quilting the bow-tie mat, I really wanted another project to quilt and this one was elected.