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Not sure about this one yet but I’ll reserve judgement until its done and bound. I was doubtful about the others too.

Another small quilt for AAQI done. I’m never sure when I start these if they will be good enough to send but this one turned out better than I expected so off it will go with the Tranquil Landscape.

I might pull this one off after all. I took out the couching along the border and redid it with a whipped chain stitch. I’m making this up as I go along but I’m starting to like it.

Also in progress is the quilting on April’s UFO.

I spent Saturday with fellow HeartStrings quilters in Roberts, WI. So much was accomplished, so much still to be done!

It’s nice to have Keith home again but I did spend some time up in the sewing room. Another small quilt for AAQI is finished and I love how this one turned out.

My Leaves are done, bound with corner triangles for hanging. I still feel very clumsy working on a quilt this small scale … One day maybe it won’t feel so awkward.

I’m working on binding the pineapple but also took some time to make a quick little strippie to practice stitching some words. Since last week’s stitch was a chain stitch I decided I’d start with that. Then I decided I’d stitch the lines in the narrow strip…. Still working on this and may interlace another stitch in the chain … we’ll see. I still need to do this week’s stitch too.

I’m a little lost both without having a single project to embroider as I’d wanted and a little late stitching this week but I’m continuing on. This was done Thursday not Tuesday and I haven’t finished the edges yet but I did stitch detached chain stitches this week.

So how do you like my Apple Tree? I’ve got a drawer full of felt to use up …. That’s a lot of postcards.

Herringbone – a favorite stitch of mine although I didn’t do anything very exciting with it.

On my Dresden Plate

And a look at the block so far – I still haven’t made any decisions about whether to continue on with more blocks or not. I’m debating how practical this quilt would be especially since its not in colors that I would keep for myself.

And since it took no time at all to stitch the seam I made another postcard.

I was out of town last week so I’m catching up. First, week 3 was a feather stitch

Week 4 is the Cretan stitch

There’s nothing very exciting about those two photos — and they were fairly quick to do so I finished a couple postcards while I had my embroidery things out. The perle cotton I used on the postcards was a variegated one dyed by Deb. I know I said we were done with our family postcard exchange but they make nice little projects for me to embroider so you’ll continue to see them here on the blog.

I’m following along with Sharon B’s weekly embroidery project and this week’s stitch is the Fly Stitch.

I have my first Dresden Plate block pieced and appliqued onto the background so I was ready to begin.

First, I chose just the simplest version. Not too bad…

2nd one, I tried a graduated version … kind of messy with some puckers.

So without taking those out – I tried a 2nd time — SO much better.

And just for fun — a snowflake using the same stitch on a postcard.

I debated taking out the messy line but I’m leaning toward leaving everything in – after all it’s a learning process and I’m sure there will be other less than wonderful stitches along the way.