New Christmas Ornament - Snowflake Wreath

APIP #10 - Snowflake Ornament;  Today I started a new design by Mary Corbet for a Snowflake Ornament.  I have modified her pattern just a little to add beads and sequins.  I completed the stitching and beading/sequins today on the first ornament.  I plan to make 4.  I chose to use a "forest green" for the background thinking the snowflake would show up pretty on the tree,  Next step will be to place it on a circle to form the ornament.

APIP #4 - Joseph's Coat of Many Colors;  I have been mainly on this project this past week.  I completed the third row and appliqued on the center circles on all the completed rows.  Three down, two to go.  Going to give this quilt to a young lady for her 14th birthday March 27.  I have been told she has an "old soul" which refers to her loving things vintage.  Since this is an old pattern and I am doing it scrappy, thought it would look fairly vintage.  I hope to get it hand quilted in time for her birthday, so going to try really hard this week to complete the last two rows this week.  I did get the remining pieces for the triangles and circles cut this morning....so ready - set - GO!

APIP #2 - Bloom and Sew; Gail Pan 2025 BOM -  Completed all the stitchery for February. Made a mistake in trimming one of the blocks (the one with the bumblebee).  Cut it too short so I had the choice of remaking the entire block or adding a background strip to the top and bottom of the piece.  So I choice to add the strips, and had to restitch the poor bumblebee's antenna.

Mary Corbet's Wreath with Candle ornaments

 APIP#5 - Embroidered Wreath with Candle - This a pattern designed by Mary Corbet with a few modifications I made - primarily adding beads and sequins.  I do love the sparkle it gives them when hanging on the Christmas tree. Mary also used a white candle against her beautiful linen background.  I chose the red candle for mine. I made three of these - one for my tree, one to give to friends and family at Christmas and one to give to my guild for the Christmas Arts and Crafts festival. 

APIP#1 - Meryton; Finished up the fourth block of the Border block 1. Now I can begin prepping the applique pieces for Border Blocks 2

APIP#2 - Bloom and Sew - Gail Pan 2025 BOM;  Received the February block this past week and started working on the stitcheries.  There are 6 to do, and I finished 2 of them.  I have not trimmed them up yet and they still have the Stick and Stich on them, but the stitchery is complete.

APIP#4 Joseph's Coat of Many Colors;  Have completed Vertical row #1 and most of #2. Have all the blocks done for Row 2, but still need to do the connector triangles and sew the block to each other.  I finally decided on a circle for the block centers.  I thought I would go with a black and white polka dot, but change my mind again today to go with a Lori Holt fabric - white background with little 6-petal flowers of many colors.  I think the black and white polka dot looked better, but the quilt is for a young girl and I just did not want to put that much black on the quilt.

With this post, I am down to just three projects in progress and have completed 6 others this year.  The three I still have going will take awhile to complete.

Joseph's Coat of Many Colors

 APIP#4 and APIP#6 - Joseph's Coat of Many Colors;  I have been working primarily on these two projects this past week.  I will be teaching the block to my club this Wednesday and needed to really get comfortable with making the blocks.  I am enjoying doing these curved pieced blocks and hope my club will enjoy them as well.  I am making a quilt 60" x 68" and a much smaller table topper.

Blocks made for the quilt so far.  No melon fabric will be repeated in the quilt.  I was auditioning the fabric to be used for the center circle and have chose the black and white polka dot.

Table Topper I made for kitchen table.  Kitchen is grey with red accents.  I chose to use just greys, reds, yellows and teals.

APIP#1 - Merryton;   I did complete the third Block 1 blocks, one more to go.

Have to make four of these.  I have the applique shapes prepped and ready to applique.

APIP#8 - Spellbound Block;  I taught this block at retreat and finished mine at home this morning.

APIP #5 - Christmas Ornament - Candle Wreath;  I am making three of these and have the embroidery completed on two of them, started the third this afternoon.  It was so pretty outside, I took my sewing to the porch and enjoyed the beautiful weather.  I learned that I can not do my embroidery very well outside - too distracted.  had to rip out what I did this afternoon and start over when I went inside.  These are Mary Corbet designs and very detailed.

Progress on Meryton, Bloom & Sew and a few others

 APIP Report

Meryton - Finished the second block of Block 1 for border.  Have the third one prepped and basted in place:

Bloom & Sew - Gail Pan 2025 BOM - Completed Block 1

Sewing Machine Mat - Completed at Retreat 

Spellbound block - Got three sections completed at retreat.  Hope to get them together tomorrow and have it quilted and bound by next week:

That's all I worked on this past week.