Meryton and other project progress

 Its been a good week, accomplishing many goals that I had set for this week.  Having my APIP list (Active Projects in Process) is really serving to keep me on track.

APIP#1 - Meryton; I do love working on this quilt and this week I was able to complete the applique prep work on the remaining three Star Flower border blocks. Here are all the pieces I got prepped.  The stars for Star Flowers are English Paper Pieced.

APIP #2; Bloom and Sew, Gail Pan 2025 BOM;  I had thought I might get to do some of the actual stitching today, but it has been a little crazy.  I did get all the prep work done for the Block 3 stitcheries and hopefully will get at two of the stitched this coming week. My prep work involves printing the patterns on Stick and Stich by Sulky, Cutting out the back ground blocks and adding the light weight fusible to the back of the background pieces, sticking on the patterns to the background, and then sewing on the embroidery extenders so the pieces will fit by embroidery hoop.  

I was excited to receive a new embroidery stand in the mail.  I let my daughter try out my older on and she found it so helpful to not have to hold on to the hoop that I let her take it home (she lives in NC) and I was just going to order another just like it for me.  But I found one I like better, and I am really enjoying using it.  I used it in finishing up my Christmas Ornaments (APIP#10)

APIP #4; Joseph's Coat of Many Colors; This afternoon I had the joy of gift this quilt to the young lady I made it for.  She was thrilled to receive it and we were both (as well as her Momma) teary eyed.

APIP#11 - Quilt Maker's Journey Quilt; This is  a new project that I have started. I am heading up a quilting presentation at a local library this coming weekend and I wanted a very simple block for someone to be making at the presentation.  Since it is a library, I decided to use something from the Quilt Maker's Journey children's story book.  This quilt is on the cover of the book, and in the book they call it Bright Hopes.  The presentation will talk about how quilts can be used to reach out to the community.  So I thought this a good choice.  I had to write my own pattern as for the block, but it is a simple block to make.  We will be making a baby size quilt and donating it to our guild's outreach program.

APIP#12; Wool Applique Table Topper;  This is not actually a new project.  I did the applique at a workshop in October 2014, but never got around to quilting it.  At the library demonstration I mentioned above, I will be doing a hand quilting demonstration, and I needed something to quilt.   So I started looking through my UFO's and found this little table runner - perfect for what I needed.  I got it basted together and did a little stitching just to make sure I remember how, haha.

APIP#10; Snowflake Christmas Ornament;  Yea - I finished these four ornaments!

So that is it for this past week.  Its been fun having different projects to work on.  Funny, I completed two project on my APIP list, and I added two more.