Progress on Dogwood Blooms

    The past few days I have been enjoying time with family so no sewing has been going on.  I did layout dogwood blocks to see how they will look. The blooms will be sewn in 3 columns with the floral fabric in between and as a border. I will probably also have another border maybe of green which I don’t have yet.  I’m getting excited about this quilt. 

Sorry the perspective is off.  I took the photo viewing the columns from the side and then rotated it. The blooms almost cover a full size bed top so difficult to see all. 

     I won’t get to work on this for a few days.  I will be presenting working with crumbs and made-fabric for my sister’s guild but then will get back to work on dogwood blooms. 

String Piecing with Students

     Thursday morning I worked with 2 students at Creative Sewing on string piecing.  I focused on the variety of uses and patterns for strings.   Leslie chose to piece half-logs on phonebook pages.  She does not yet have a stash of strings so she used a jellyroll. 

I love her warm and cool half-log blocks. 

 

     Cynthia chose to work on spider web units using dot fabric.  I did not get a photo of her completed units.  However, she recently took my beginning quilting class and brought a finished quilt to share.   

I enjoyed sharing string piecing info and hopefully inspiring them for more string piecing.

 Here a some of my scrappy spiderweb blocks. 

Working on Flowers Real and Fabric

      I love this beautiful spring weather.  I have spent several mornings working with real flowers in my yard . . .

 . . . before I relax in the afternoon and sew on fabric flowers. 

 The above photo shows all curves stitched.

I have all 21 needed dogwood units together and feel great about the progress.   I have stitched the leaf curves on only one unit so far but that is the last part before sewing the units together for the quilt top.