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gotta put in work
There is a lot going on in these parts. I have many, many projects on the go as always and there's several exciting secret things on the horizon - some of which are fun blogging things so you will see them here soon!
I've gone back to making Farmer's Wife blocks, catching up a bit. I'm enjoying hand piecing:
Yesterday I taught a class at Patchfinders to make my Fox cushion. I had a really creative group and they had fun with the appliqué and making the foxes their own. A couple of ladies finished completely, don't they look brilliant!
If you're on Instagram I would love for you to come and join in the Saturday Night Craft Along, hosted by Rachel @barefootcrafter in Australia and Meg @myteaandbrie in USA. I am currently hosting the UK timezone and so from 6pm GMT on Saturday nights you can tag me @charmaboutyou and add #saturdaynightcraftalong to join in the fun! I love seeing what people are working on and it's a great way for us to like and comment on each other's pictures and projects. With the new algorithm messing up the order of pictures, using the hashtag means we can share progress in real time and craft the night away together!
I am happily working on finishing up a few makes and I have several projects in the design stages. I would like to check a couple more things off my finish-along list for this quarter so wish me luck!
Oh and you will probably want to come back here tomorrow if you love fabric ;)
fools rush in
I had some fun with applique and made these two Kawaii fox cushions - with a pocket for treasures or the tooth fairy. I sketched out a little fox design and split it down into the necessary applique pieces, then got to stitching...
This one I just went fmq mad, I did some outline stitching and then completely embroidered the eyes and nose by stitching round and round and all messy, it was very enjoyable!
The next one I used zig zag applique for a softer, totally different look. I hand embroidered the eyes, mouth and some decorative grass and clouds. I added a sweet button nose.
I made them towards the end of last year and submitted them to a magazine competition but I didn't win. I did feel foolish for a little while (no acknowledgement, no feedback) but actually I am really pleased with them and had fun using different techniques. I'm hoping that a lovely buyer on my Etsy shop will agree they are pretty special and give them a happy home.
Then last week I had a true reason to feel foolish when I rushed in to make a start on a needle turn applique block for the butterfly quilt. I felt quite confident and it wasn't going too badly, until I had this and I couldn't get past thinking I was doing something wrong...
Yes because the flowers are supposed to be in the corners - I'm doing a variation of the one below. I had traced it all wrong and have now started over, at least I had a little practice before starting the 'real' block!
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| Indiana Rose Quilt Block by Carrie Hall |
Finally after showing you my Polar Bear Block the other day I kept getting that nagging 'you haven't pre-washed your red fabrics' feeling and because a few of you commented about it I threw my pile of red fabrics for the QAL in the wash. After all this is red and WHITE. I don't normally pre-wash at all but the last thing I want is to ruin a quilt when it's done and that little bit of preparation really didn't take much time. Thanks to Linda for our little email conversation and I will be soaking this block just to be sure too. I'm going to make this one as foolproof as I can!
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