I prepped 6 new fish today for applique. I am hopeful to get some stitched at meetings this week. The quilt will come together quickly one the applique is complete. It is so much fun rummaging through my stash to create these slippery fish.
Here they are joining the other school of fish.
I finished my Brenna Dresdon blocks and want to get the background cut today. They will be appliqued.
Shopping my stash, I am deciding between white on white, Grey low volume, or a variety of low volumes. They all really change the look.
I also have Fishy Business on the design wall while I make a few more blocks. My wall actually has a mix of four project WIPS:
I have been retreating as well. Here are some photos.
Hello Quilty Friends! How have you been? I have been soooo busy, but in great ways.
Let's get this post started with the Chookshed number draw for July. Google random number is giving us 9?
My number 9 is Fishy Business. I am super excited to get this baby done because I love it!
What is your number 9. Feel free to link up your July goal as well as your progress on June.
How did I do on my June goal? I did absolutely nothing. Instead I worked on a new row quilt I started. I am calling it "Summer in a Small Town". Here are some photos.
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So what are your plans for the June Chookshed Challenge? I have attached a linky party below to help you share.
As part of a reading challenge I am doing this month, I am supposed to share yellow books that I enjoyed.
Lemon Tart: not as great as the others on this list, but still a great novel. It is a murder mystery.
The Help: an absolute favorite. The movie was great too. It is the stories of the help in the deep south where there are strong racial boundaries and unrest. The help love and nurture the children even more than the mothers do in some cases, but are treated so poorly.
James: a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the slave.
Strange Sally Diamond: I gave it 5 stars. It is about a girl who was kidnapped and held in captivity for many years, birthed two children during that time, and later escaped. The story is more about the lives of her offspring afterward.
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus: about a teen girl with no arms. She is adopted.
Same Kind of Different as Me: an excellent book club read! It is about a homeless man who used to pick cotton during slavery and an art dealer. Their worlds come together in an unsuspected way.
Carnegie's Maid: This one is historical fiction, my favorite genre. I learned so much about the Carnegie Family. It also has a sweet love story, though fictional, between Carnegie and his mother's maid.
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Today is Memorial Day in the states. Most government jobs are off, many people are decorating graves, while others are enjoying a three day weekend. Me, I am having a splendid day at home alone, listening to a good book, and working on my Canadian Chris Quilt. I honestly thought I wouldn't get much done on this project because it felt overwhelming. Once I laid everything out and came up with a layout plan, I realized that this could maybe even become a top this month.
I chose to take the blocks Chris made and do a "row quilt" with them. While this was not the original layout she had in mind, I am really liking it.
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I began by assessing the blocks that needed to be completed. These red flowers were fused down. I added the machine blanket stitch around them. The center orange peel block was fused to freezer paper with the edges turned. I removed the paper and then hand stitched the white petals down. I also removed freezer paper from a few blocks that Chris had machine stitched down.
Two blocks have been prepped for needle turn applique'. This one currently has freezer paper underneath.
This one was prepared in a different way for needle turn applique'. It was pinned onto the white block with the pattern drawn on the front. I have been hand appliqueing it using the drawn line to know where to turn it. It is coming along well.
