If you have read my blog in the past you will know that I have lots of projects on the go at once. This really works for me as I always have something different to work on and I rarely get bored. Almost everything gets done eventually and I am thrilled that the center of my Captain Russell inspired quilt is now done. Just ready for a trimming and then I will sew it together. I'm not doing the borders, partly due to a lack of interest and mostly because of size, so this one is almost a completed top.
And here is my Christmas top finished. The photo is crap, cause I am a lousy photographer and cause it was just to big for DH to hold, but hopefully you get the idea.
Sadly I didn't have enough of the backing fabric that I had planned to use so while thinking about that I practiced some piecing with the leftover scraps. One of my next projects calls for lots of little 4 1/2 in star blocks so I used the time to test my pattern. I decided not to use the method called for and wanted to make sure I knew what I was getting into. Perhaps they will go into the back or maybe a new little project.
And here is what I did today. Sorry, again another crappy photo but not everything is glued or pinned in place so I could only lay it flat. This is from the book "Pennies from Heaven" and I added some silk applique to the wool. I belong to a small group "Wooly Women" which was formed after a Sue Spargo workshop, where we work on embellishing our wool projects. Since I finished the project from the workshop, I needed to get something to work on for our next meeting. I hope to embellish this with lots of embroidery and beading so it should be a fun project. So what will I work on tomorrow?
