A Quilt Show, and Stitching A Long on Sunday

Yesterday I attend the Busy Bees Quilters Quilt Show held at a local church a few blocks from my house.

They haven't done a quilt show since the outbreak or Covid I was thrilled to see the flyer on Facebook earlier in the week and so happy to learn the Bees were Back. I will share a few photos here.  I was feeling under the weather and had to leave early but I did manage to see all the quilts in the show.

My favorite quilt in the show is this Bra Quilt, each block has a different printed fabric and a necklace, the backing fabric was a perfect choice.

My spiral piece is coming along nicely, stitching it is so meditative I lose all track of time. 

The week 6 piece for the K3n.clothtales SAL prompt was Tricksy fabrics, those hard to hold onto and stitch fabrics we have all dealt with at one time or another.  

The Tricksy fabrics I used white lace, satin tan, wool white, the purple brocade which kept fraying the entire time I stitched it, a wool blend felt with lace stitched over it (yellow). yellow tulle which I folded over several times and stitched over a fussy cut. Organza is orange and a bit of orange satin ribbon. I let the fabrics speak to the placement of each piece. I enjoyed stitching this, in fact, with each passing week I find myself looking forward to the next week's piece.

This morning I hung up the Valentine's Day banner I made a few years ago and found it when I was looking for scraps for the week 6 piece.

I am also stitching the moth piece from the Cozy Blue stitch club, it's from a few months ago. I may

just stitch the moth and make it into a little brooch.   I'm adding my post to Kathy's Quilts here: 

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2024/02/slow-sunday-stitching.html  Why not pop over and see what other bloggers are slow stitching this Sunday.

I'll leave you with a few more lovely quilts from the Quilt Show

February Arrives with Sun and Stitching.

 Happy February! 

Happy to say the month started with sunny skies and quite cool mornings here in Marion County Florida.

I have been hand embroidering and slow stitching a few pieces since the first of the month. In fact I have been doing quite a bid of stitching since the new year, I'm seeing this as my Stitching Year or my year of stitching.

First up I did the K3n.clothtales SAL piece for week 5 with a prompt or idea of hidden secrets using the EPP for a hexie piece.  I have to admit I wasn't too sure about this because I have never done EPP. It was easier than I ever thought. My little hidden secrets story is years and years ago I did a Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt using the template in the photo and cutting each piece out with scissors and adding the stitch line on each piece.  I ironed all the stitch lines so I could piece the quilt. I never thought I would do another. 

Each piece for Week 5 came from scraps of fabrics of quilts I have made over the 30 odd years.

I completed the stitching on the Airmid goddess piece, the pattern is from the Dancing Goddesses Etsy shop. https://www.etsy.com/shop/DancingGoddesses?ref=shop-header name&listing_id=1479656818&from_page=listing

It's a small piece of pre-printed fabric about 5x7 inches the design is about 5 inches. I will figure out a finish for it soon.

Yesterday afternoon I started to stitch a very meditative piece gifted to me at Christmas, the design is on pre-printed fabric in a spiral sashiko style.

The fabric is very thin so I backed it with cotton batting.

I'm using a variegated sashiko thread that came with the printed fabric.  The lines are supposed to be washable I just hope the thread is colorfast.

I am thinking of using the spiral piece as part of a wall hanging I have brewing in my mind. I just love the look of the spirals.

Later today I will do the February block in the Kathy Schmitz's SAL Woven Wreaths. I'm adding my post over at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching. https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2024/02/sow-sunday-stitching.html

The 2 Crabapple Hill Studios patterns arrived early this week, I just love the cute little witches Meg Hawkey designs.  These are blocks 2 and 3 somehow I missed blocked .  

On another medium I am make a few paper crafted pockets, these are made using 12x12 sheets of scrapbooking paper.

February is National Embroidery Month