Sunday progress

Today has been a much needed quiet day at my house.   After church, hubby and I went to Sonny's BBQ for lunch, and after getting back home, I took a much needed Sunday afternoon nap for an hour. After all, our Pastor preached this morning on keeping the Sabbath as a day of rest.

I did a little quilting today on my floral panel .  Still working with the gold thread and getting better at doing it.  I have one more short side border to complete and then it will be finished - at least for the quilting.  After I get the binding sewn on, I want to try adding some beads to one side of the narrow border.


I also completed the applique prep work on the two ring flower blocks for the Pemberley quilt.  One good thing about appliqueing something that you EPP, then edges are all nicely turned under, which makes appliqueing them to the background much easier.  I found it best to pin to the background first, then baste in place so that the pins can be removed.  Before I kept having the pins work themselves out while I was appliqueing and the block would even shift a little.

I had already completed two of the blocks without basting after pinning - but I now have the remaining six blocks basted and ready for applique.  Once the applique is completed, I can square up the blocks to the correct size, and then applique two little Dresden pieces to each corner of the block.  With that, the blocks will be finished and I am ready to sew them together to make the final quilt border.  So close to getting this quilt completed