Happy Friday! Happy Embroidery! I joined the Cozy Blue Stitch club after trying one of their embroidery kits in December! I was able to do some stitching this week when I was recovering from being sick. It was actually a lot of stitching.
I finished off this month's stitch club and I LOVE this design! "Show Up, Be True, Be Kind, Keep Going" I think this stitch club has gotten me in the mood to learn more embroidery stitches, and it’s a great portable project for all my trips for work.
I am also in 2 different Bee Hives this year. A hive consists of 12 different quilters that all take turns being Queen. The month you are Queen, you pick out a block and everyone in the hive sends you that block. It's pretty neat because I am Queen in April for both of my hives! My plan is to have the same block made for me in both hives so I can make a much bigger quilt with fewer blocks I will personally have to make! Here are the blocks I made for the January Queens of the 2 hives I belong to.
Both of those were try #2s of making the block. Things I have learned are:
- Colors and undertones are hard to see with the light I have in the sewing room. I need to get some daylight bulbs.
- I have a hard time cutting on a diagonal, and I'm much better at sewing on a diagonal then trimming.
What are some of your favorite blocks for bee hives to make? I still haven't figured out which block I'm going to request!
I am going to be off on business trips for the next few weeks, so you'll hopefully see more embroidery projects that I'll be working on and all the quilty goodness I can shove into the weekends when I'm home.
My available time for quilting this upcoming week:
Saturday, Sunday (I'm crying on the inside)
Projects I want to work on:
Secret Sewing
Goals for the Projects:
Secret Sewing: SHHHHH!!! It's a secret. But it involves free patterns for my blog followers! Stay tuned!
Hope you have a productive week!
Your turn! What did you accomplish this week? A block? A quilt top? Link up below!
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