Catching up

I have missed two Sunday posts now.  I took a bad fall Thursday, April 10 when a cart I was pushing down the hall simply collapsed and I fell over it, face down.  It was the kind of cart that folds flat, and I pushed it over a threshold in my house, it folded flat with me on top.  It was  a painful fall, and for about 4 days I could barely walk or breathe, but remained confident that I had not broken any bones.  Fred finally convinced me to go to the hospital, and no broken bones, but I had sprained all my ribs and sternum and the muscle tissue around these bones were inflamed.  A true blessing that I did not break anything, and the doctors gave me some medicines that relieved the pain. 

So I lost about a week of sewing just lying around the house.  By the time I got better, Easter was upon us  and I needed to get a scavenger egg hunt together for the grandkids as well as getting groceries and cooking for Easter dinner.  My granddaughter, Tess, helped me get the groceries and egg hunt together and my daughter, Jennie, helped with the meal - so it all got done, and we had a blest Easter.

APIP#2 - During this time, I only worked on the Bloom and Sew project.  I completed four of the stitcheries for BOM Block #4 and have two left to go.  I hope to get all the stitcheries done today and get started putting the block together.

APIP #13 - Tulip & Rose Applique block.  I have the pattern for this block up on my design wall and stare at it a lot, trying to decide what fabrics I will use and how I will use the block.  I had decided to make a pillow out of it to go with my Meryton quilt (APIP #1) but I was befuddled if I really wanted to do this.  In the meantime I finished a block I had made to demonstrate how to use Bolar fusible to Stitchin' Friends.  I really like the sample I made with batiks and have decided to make the Tulip & Rose block with the same vibrant batik colors.  I have been wanting a tote bag to carry my projects in, and voila, I decided to do this.  I will be demonstrating to my guild's First Friday sewing group how to use Golden Thread paper for an applique underlay and I plan to use the Tulip & Rose as my example.  I already have the pattern traced onto the paper, so now to prepare the fabrics for applique.  Its so nice to finally have a plan!

This is the block I made to demo this technique to my quilt club. These are the vibrant colors I will use in my applique and I am thinking of using a black background.  I want the bag to have sides and a squared of bottom, but not too big.  Maybe just 3 inch sides made like the piano key border on the block and using some of the bolar fusible to make the sides. 

Here is the pattern pattern for the Tulip & Rose block, and behind it is the Golden Thread paper pattern I traced for the underlay.

We shall see, I have been know to change my mind, haha.