Wish You Well June block

This evening I completed the June block for the Wish You Well Gail Pan BOM.  This block came to me at just the right time.  I had been to see an oral surgeon to schedule some oral surgery to remove a tooth and bridge and was really feeling kind of glum.  I decided to do some stitching, and there was the block saying "Think Happy Thoughts."  So as I stitched it, that is exactly what I did and I did feel better by the time I finished this sweet little block.

I used the Hungarian Chain Stitch for the bow on the bouquet.  My first attempt at this stitch.

This J monogram came from an old hankie I found at an antique shop and just had to buy it since my last name begins with J.  It is actually embroidered and the little stitches in the roses are amazing.  I put the pink check behind it as the hankie was very fine and guazy.

A good thing to remember in these trying times.

Friday while Zooming with my friend Darlene, I completed Cottage 5 of the Cottage Grove  Quilt. This is the last cottage in the project and an enjoyable one to complete.

 

Temperature Quilt - Beginning of Fall

 It is so hard to believe that Fall is here, although the weather seems to be going from hot summer to cool Fall over night.  I got to add the Fall label to my Seasonal Temperature quilt  just in time, I only had one little summer piece left.

Here is the quilt to date:

Lone Rose Star quilt top DONE!

 Today I have my Lone Rose Star quilt top completed, ironed and taken to a long-arm quilter for basting the quilt sandwich.  I plan to hand quilt this one, but when its a queen size its always nice to have it basted by someone with a long arm machine.  Looking at the picture I can see where I should have interchanged a pink and a yellow Rose Star - but too late now.  Funny how these things always show up in a picture.

I also got a little work done on my Brimfield blocks - Completing Block 11 and 12 - that leaves 8 to go.

One more progress step in the right direction - my Wish You Well block number 5 for May.  I am having so much fun working on these blocks.  I do love this block, I think the embroidery in the bottom left corner is my favorite so far.

Cottage Grove, Cottage 4

 Making progress on my Cottage Grove quilt. My friend, Darlene, is also making one and we zoom on Fridays to keep each other going. We were meeting here at my house, but then she had to go into quarantine as she has her first grandbaby due to arrive next week.  

There are 5 cottages in the quilt and we just completed #4.  The pattern was meant for fusible applique, which I prefer needle turn.  Some of the applique is very small and detailed,so often the case with fusible.  Anyway, this block required a little blue bird on the chimney and a rather small birdhouse.  The houses have lots of pieces and the first two that we made, we machine pieced it all.  More recently I have been drawing the paper piecing foundation pieces in EQ and mine are coming out so much better, precise and way easier to make.  Darlene is enjoying the paper piecing as well.

I decided to embroider the top of the chimney and the little blue bird.  I do love blue birds and I may have to put one on top of the birdhouse too.  I may use my fabric pens to color in the bird and the chimney top - but then again I may not.

The bird house was a real challenge.  First I embroidered the whole house, and it was a disaster, just did not look right.  So then I decided to try applique.  I pressed the edges under and then used Roxanne's glue to hold them in place (house and pole) while I machine straight stitched them.  I could probably have done a better job if I had hand appliqued, but what can I say, I wanted to get 'er done. I had some baby rick rack in white that I colored brown with fabric pens and used that for the roof. 

Its rather primitive looking, but hey, if I tried to build it from wood it would probably look just like this.  I am satisfied with it, actually kind of like it.  Guess I should have removed the random threads before taking the picture.

Wish You Well - April Block

This is my April Block, just finished today.  As I mentioned in earlier posts, I got a late start on this BOM by Gail Pan, signing up in August.  I am loving the process and the pretty embroderies.  Even enjoying the yoyo's, which in Australia they call them Suffolk Puffs.  The pattern calls for appliqued circles, but I am using yoyos.

And here are my first four blocks: