Rainy Day WIPs

Shocked!! Yes, another post. Well, today is quite a dreary, rainy day. I decided to brighten by day working with bright, cheery fabrics. I am following the lead of Tanesha, "CraftyGardenMom" and plunging into the LMS BOM-Birdie Stitches. Here is a pic of my background.



The background didn't quite turn out like I had planned. Now, yes, it does work and I like the final results, however, it wasn't planned this way. I hoped to have solids in each corner to have a distinctive solid 4-patch. Now I have 4-patch blocks in random areas! I will be using #8 Pearl Cotton, more than likely in a purple for most of the embroidery parts, sprinkle in accent colors here and there. Keep checking back to see my progress.

I received by quilt back from having it quilted. The quilting was done at the Missouri Star Quilt Co. It is a pantograph design. It was completed in less than 3 weeks. The only thing left to do now is binding! Not a big fan of binding. I will try my hand at machine, but will practice first before tackling the quit top I would highly recommend them if you need a quilt quilted. BTW, my quilt was featured on their blog August 2nd.







That is a little glimpse of my day. Until next time..............

ARGGGGHHH!!

How do you spell relief??? "ROLAIDS"! Work is truely getting to me. Two more weeks and things should return to semi-normal. I won't be torn between three facilities. To work through some of this I have started "art" journalling, sorta. :-) I am not artist, but I can doodle, color, cut and paste. Here's a couple of pics.





My retreat to childhood...no worries no stress. This is my book of doodles, paint, and coloring.





I had forgotten how much fun coloring and painting was!!

My other stress relievers are listening to my fav podcasts. I just caught up on Tanesha's podcast-Craftygardenmom". She talked about her "Birdie Stitches" blocks. After seeing how cute they were, I searched her past posts to find out who's BOM it was. Yay! I was successful. The BOM pattern was from "Little Miss Shabby" blog. How cute. I have printed out the first three blocks. I hope to start soon.



This is the link: http://www.littlemissshabby.com/

On my design wall is what I am working on now. The fabric design is Frolic by Moda. I just love those print. The quilt is called
"Frolic-lee Tubular".



That's all for now! Until next time.......