Spring quilt

Remember I mentioned earlier about some spring blocks I had from a swap

Here’s a sketch from EQ7 I decided to use

The middle border uses 2 1/2” wide strips

Perfect for binding strip scraps!! which is overflowing BTW

So I picked out the most SPRING ones

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Ha! can’t even tell!! hmmm (I do have a plan for the rest of these though!!

I know scrappy trip around the world blocks are all the RAGE on blogger lately and I THINK I want to do it too! following Bonnie Hunter’s directions here

Here’s my pile of “spring” strips all ironed and ready

I cut them all into 3 1/2” sections and it was easier to count by 10s so each pile has 10 with a total of 81.

When I sewed them together I picked randomly from the 10 piles and also looked at the EQ sketch to count how many sections were in each row.

I ironed toward the “dark” which could vary depending the set. In one set a yellow might be a light but paired with white it was counted as dark.

Here’s the finished top

Here’s the latest Ahhhh’s too

This one is #12

#13

Last night my husband was playing with Sonja on the floor with Peanut

And I finally got more pre-wound bobbins and got to play some more this morning!

This Bee is in EQ Stitch, I changed the mouth a little, the text is arched in the brother machine

This label will be BIG, the hoop is 5×7

Here’s the completed label.

It took 28min to stitch out.

(Can’t remember the stitch count but I think it was around 16000)

Now this is for a friend, BUT If I would SELL this, how much should I charge for it? I read somewhere to charge $1 per 1000 stitches. well that seems a bit high for “just” a label, but with 30 min work….. I don’t know

My son then wanted a basketball to be made into a pillow, he picked some black dotted fabric. The basket ball was also in EQ Stitch

the embroidery here on the ball is super DENSE, the underlay was maybe 4 different directions!

A cute basketball! –sorry can’t say CUTE about boy stuff…. umm it’s COOL!!

(again I did this post in live writer, but is there a way to auto add a signature every time?)