Mail Call

Wanted to share with you my goodies I received in the mail the other day. I got both in the mail the same day. Kind of like Christmas opening them up . lol. I ordered the success strips from Robbie. I can't wait to try out these templates. I have Carole Samples templates and have been practicing with them and these will make great additions to those.

At ThreadArt they were having a fantastic sale on their perle cotton 8. Half price. Got these 40 spools of thread for less than 30 dollars.Such wonderful colors.

Inspiration Block

In one of my groups I belong we started what is called CQ A-Z Study. Below is the block I made for this project. I have always wanted to be able to make a balanced block. So I chose for my theme Victorian. So I copied on paper the motifs I wanted to put on this block and put them where I want them to be. So below is what I've gotten done so far.


I thought since I would be doing some goldwork on this block that I would add some gold colored sequins and beads to kind of highlight the center of the flower on the lace.
Then I used Krenik Japanese Gold thread to make the spider web. I couched the gold with Krenik Cord. I will be adding some leaves and flowers along the top and sides of the web. I am working on the spider going to try to make my first stumpwork spider. We will see how that turns out.

Update on 2012 Quilt Challenge

I haven't gotten alot accomplished on my quilt challenge yet. I do have all the blocks pieced but here is all I have gotten finished so far on my Magnolia.