Too cute for words.

I saw this pattern in an e-mail I get from http://www.clotilde.com/.  I thought it was so cute and I know exactly who I'm gonna do it for. I'm not going to make an actual blanket but I thought a couple of cute pillows for the couch would be cute.

I also laminated this pattern cause it is a definite keeper.

The following are some of the fabrics I chose for this cute little fellow.

This is one background fabric and fabric for the dog shape.

The lighter fabric is for the background and the others for dog body shape.

And these three are for the ear, collar, and flower on the butt.

I'll get these done, hopefully by christmas.

World of Blossoms color scheam

As I promised, I took pictures of my color scheme.  I didn't get the other blocks traced onto the pattern ease today because I just didn't feel like it.

This fabric I chose for my background block fabric. 

These are the colors I chose for the flowers.  I think I'm going to get another purple or two.  I like to switch it up in my colors.  Honestly I can never make up my mind on what colors I want.  I just need to get busy cause when I get something sewed on, I'm not going to take it out and start over.

And these are the colors I chose for the leaves and stems and center of the flowers.

This fabric is all batiks. I had originally picked a bunch of bright cottons to use but I found that they tended to fray too much, especially when I was sewing down the stems.  I may try making some of the other blocks or maybe a smaller lap quilt.  I'll show you those colors when I get around to it.

The next class is next Monday.  I'm going to try and at least get leaves and stems sewed onto a background.  I have 6 days to get this accomplished. Good luck me.

http://mandmplus3.blogspot.com/  This is the link to my friend Mandy's blog.  She took pictures of some of the other ladies blocks and posted them here.  I told her that, since she is not able to come these next 6 months, I would take pictures and email them to her.  Now I just need to be sure my camera is charged up and remember to take it with me.

What I did today.

Ok, so I said I was going to start working on my projects and I did.  The quilt project is a doozie.  It has 20 finished blocks and the finished quilt is 88" x 106 1/2".  I believe that is a queen sized quilt.  Now I don't have a queen sized-bed so I'm going to make mine 3 blocks by 4 blocks.  The finished (if it ever gets there) may be a bit bigger than a twin size, but I'd rather have extra then not enough.

These are the blocks for the quilt.  I have not decided which ones I'm going to use yet, but I do know there are several I won't use.

So back to working on the project.  I guess you can say that I technically started in earnest last week.  I took the patterns for the blocks we have been assigned so far to Copyworks, and had them laminated.

I did this hoping to keep them in good shape should I chose to do it again.  HA yeah right.  I do think I'll make a couple of pillows from a few of the ones I don't include in the blanket.

Ok, so today I organized the patterns and pulled out, from the laminated ones, the ones I hadn't traced onto the pattern ease.  I then cut my pattern ease to the 14 x14 inch block the instructions called for.  I then ironed it so it didn't have all the folds in it from being in the shopping bag for the last 2 months.  I then taped the pattern to my cutting mat and taped the pattern ease over the top of that.  I use a medium shade of blue to trace with. It took me about 3 hours to do all this. Yes, I am slow, but I wanted to take my time and do it niceish. I was also watching a movie so I was a bit distracted.

Tomorrow I will finish tracing the patterns on the pattern ease and then cut out the background blocks.  If I'm in the mood then I'll go down to the sewing machine and sew the edges of the blocks so they don't fray and sew the pattern ease on to the background block.

I probably won't blog about my project every day. I know you all will miss not having something so spellbinding to read every day, but there may be days where I just didn't have time to do anything, and I'm sure you don't want to hear about what I had for dinner.

Tomorrow, however, I will take pictures of my color scheme to show you. I know you can't wait for that.

Till tomorrow, have a good night.

Pippa