LANDSCAPE RR-SIMONA'S BLOCK

Last week, I had the pleasure of working on Simona's landscape block. This is the whole block. I was the second person to work on it, 1st person having worked on the sky, which is hard to tell from my poor photography.

I decided her landscape needed a tree, and I added a cherry blossom tree.

















Here is a little bit more detail on what I did. I also added the sequin flowers, and the stitching on the patches around the tree.

BLOGAVERSARY, CQI PURSE CONTEST

If you are interested in a great CQ blog to check out, Wendy is about to celebrate her blogaversary on her Stitchdutchess Crazy & Sane Quilting blog and is having a great giveaway. Wendy does lovely stitching and has a great blog.

The results of the CQI 2009 purse contest, all the purse entries are up on the CQI Blog, and you can check it out here. I thought all the entries were fantastatic and had a tough time voting myself.

PIECES OF FRIENDSHIP,SUMMER DYB

recently participated in Pat Winter's Pieces of Friendship Swap, where we made these puzzle pieces, and Pat swapped them out earlier this week, and I received mine and am delighted!



This one was from Cindy Bughuis from Clara City, Mn.












This one (I think) Pat Winter. I am pretty sure I saw it on her blog.














This one is from Mary Schuberg.















And this one is from Liz in Kansas.


These are all exquisitely stitched and beaded, and they look wonderful when you put them together.









A new RR is starting up. This one is a summer do-your-own block. These are the ones I am sending out. I am calling mine Summer Days and Summer Nights.

CQI ANNUAL PURSE CONTEST RESULTS

I woke up this morning and checked my e-mail and found out the results were up on the
CQI annual purse contest I had entered. I could not share my pictures of the purse I entered
until after the voting was finished and the results were posted. There were 2 categories this
year, regular crazy quilting of which there were 9 entries, and other techniques of which there were 2 entries, 1 of which was mine. I won 2nd place in my category! Later, when the purses have been posted in the CQ blog, I will be able to share the pictures of the others. There were some beautiful purses entered this year, and I had a hard time voting myself, they were all lovely.



I decided to make an evening purse that I can take on our cruises. Because I was running out of time, and it was down to 3 weeks before the due date, I decided to just do silk ribbon embroidery. The wisteria-type tree took more than a week to do by itself.















Detail of bottom portion




























The other side

CQI COVERED TIN SWAP

I signed up for the covered tin swap on CQI. What we were to do was take a tin (we signed up for a specific size) and cover it it. I chose to do Altoids tins. I am a collector of tins of any kind and I had tons of these.

This is the top of the first tin










This is the front













This is the inside, and the goodies I filled it with


















This is tin #2. I did not get a good picture of the front.

















This is the inside and the goodies.

















This is tin #3 and my favorite.
















This is the front













This is the inside and the goodies included. I hope my recipients like them!

PINCUSHION SWAP

I am participating in Sandra's Pincushion Swap, and I have my package all ready to go in the mail this morning.




This is the pincushion I made. Actually it was about the 3rd one I made, I wasn't satisfied with the first 2!










This is the whole package of goodies I am sending. I hope my recipient likes her package!

Autumn RR

Yesterday I pieced this block for a new round robin, this time an Autumn block. I love these colors, Autumn, one of my favorite times of the year.

The big thing I have been working on for the past several weeks, I cannot show yet. I entered the CQI purse contest again this year, but I cannot show pictures of that until after the voting is concluded in a week or so. I am really excited and proud of my entry this year.

BIRDS AND BEES RR, LYN

This is a block from the Birds and Bees round robin which will be ending in June. This was Lyn's block. She wanted us to plant her garden.
the fence had already been done by the prior person, and I added the sunflower behind the fence and the crow.







I did the coneflowers, and added a little hummingbird charm, and a little sign that I could not get the picture to show, but it reads "My Garden"











This is the whole block.

UNDER THE SEA BLOCK-LISA'S

Another round robin I worked on was Lisa's under the sea block. I did this entire block. Part of the seaweed I had some funky yarn/thread which I crocheted a single chain stitch and tacked it down.

I really had a good time with this block, of course it is one of my favorite subjects.

Lisa had all her blocks in the shape of shells, and is planning to assemble them into a fabric book. I really loved her idea.

LANDSCAPE RR

I have been pretty busy the last couple of weeks with round robins. This is a landscape RR that I am working on, and this was Debbie's block. I was the first one to work on this one, and I added the tree and the stitching so far on this block. I don't know how to get rid of this underlining

CANDI'S BLOCK

I have recently been working on Candi's block, as part of a round robin my small group of friends
participate in. I was the last person working on this block and this is the section I worked on.
I did the purple and green around the lady silkie.


This is a closeup of the cone flowers. I really liked how they came out.

This is the block, ready to go back to Candi.

INTERESTING MAIL

In the past month or so, I have received some "interesting mail" as my mail lady Victoria says
after she fondles my packages. I have ordered and received some wonderful packages.
First, I have ordered some of Rengin's oyas shown below.







I have already put most of these turquoise ones on some CQ blocks, and I am hoping I can order more. Rengin sells her work on Etsy, and on Artfire. I just love her work, and am looking forward buying more.

I also purchased and received some of Sharon B's beutiful hand-dyed threads on her Artfire store. They stitch beautifully. I took a picture somewhere, but cannot locate it now.

And I also bought and received Jo's lovely photo seam book called Seams Like Fun, with lovely seam treatments. Jo's Etsy store is here. Right now she also has some pincushions listed.

PIECES OF FRIENDSHIP

As I mentioned previously, I am participating in Pat Winter's Pieces of Friendship puzzle piece swap. I finished my last 2 pieces last night, and these are heading out to Pat today.





These are all 4 of my pieces set together.