Paisleys

In the CQI group I am a member of ,we are having a March challenge of making paisleys.
I had to leave the other day for work and don't know if I would be able to make any new ones or not,,but here are two that I've made in the past. The one below I made recently, I made it for Tami in the RR I am participating in at the present.
And this one was done a couple years ago, it was on a heart I had done for a swap in the COH group I belonged to. This was my first paisley and the one above my second that I have done.

Blog GiveAway

Cathy is going to be having a give away on her blog. She likes three post making it to her 100th blog. Congratulations Cathy! You will enjoy viewing Cathy's work,,she does lovely CQ work. Go visit her blog and look at all the wonderful eye candi. Oh and register for her drawing,,I hear she makes wonderful squishes.

FFT #4

I done a little research on the Japanese custom of Christmas. I really enjoyed reading about it and I sure hope the internet didn't lead me astray.
Starting at the seam that Tami done I wrote Hideko a message using the stem stitch.I'm not going to say what it says,,I am hoping , and eagerly awaiting your answer to what it says. ,,sure hope it means what the internet says it means I added snowflakes under Tami's seam and then on each side of the message. Then I done a little seam work using Christmas colors. Then in my online reading I learned that houses are decorated with small trees,,,so I put a little tree charm and decorated it with beaded garland. I also learned that the houses are decorated with evergreens and mistletoe. Often a tree branch is hung from the ceiling . So I made you an evergreen that hangs on your block Also the evergreen is to bring good luck if I remember correctly.. And sitting on your evergreen I put two turtle doves,,you know,,the one's that was given on the second day of Christmas song,,,well actually the name of the song is 12th Day of Christmas (I believe,,lol) Anyways on the second day my true love gave to me two turtle doves. Now legend of the Turtle doves is this , mated pairs stay together over many years, and possibly for life, the birds were long associated with love and faithfulness. Now what better explanation can you have for Christmas..Faithful love!!! I hope you like my additions Hideko,,and I hope the internet didn't inform me wrong.

Starting All Over Again

If you've been following my blog I had been doing the fan blocks from Carole Samples Daddies Ties are Mommies now. I haven't posted progress in a while because the dupioni fabric I had used for the background started messing up really bad. I would barely push with my marking pencil and the dupioni would pull apart,,,holes would form,,and I would not be pushing hard at all,,,it would get runs in it,,,so I wasn't about to continue all the intricate work for it to start unraveling over a period of time,,I had two completed blocks and one I had started the lace on. So the remaining blocks I went and ripped out all that dupioni,,dyed me some fabric and starting all over again. Apparently I got a bad batch of dupioni from Hancocks,,and of course I didn't keep the receipt so I didn't even try to take it back. So after the disappointment of having to start over again,,I am back in the saddle again.

Violet (Sweet) Viola odorata

It has been a while since my last post on my flower garden. Took some time out the other day to work in the Violets. They didn't turn out that great , don't know if they really look like Violets or not. lol This makes flower #10,,, only 16 more to go.

Hen and Chicks

The last lesson of lesson 2 was doing the Hen and Chicks. I had such problems with it at first...the reason was I was using the wrong thread,,I was trying to use my ball of thread cause I didn't want to run out of thread...learned I had to cut the thread off the ball. Anyways,,once I decided to try the bugle beads I didn't have to use a guage for the spaces,,worked out great. You know it's bad that you have a pattern memorized by trying it so many times before you get it half way looking right. lol