WOW or WIP 24th May 2012

This past week has not been mine really it has been spent mostly in waiting rooms, so I pulled my Vienna quilt

My Vienna quilt

out of the attic where it had been packed away over the wet season and I have clocked up 30 hrs this week doing blanket stitch around the Australian gum leaves

Gum leaves ready for stitching down.

I love the way appliqué comes alive when they have the embroidery stitches added. I nearly always use a contrasting thread when blanket stitching as to me it makes the shape pop????

Now you can see clearly where the gum grubs have been chewing!!!!!

Earlier in the week I managed to do some machine quilting on my PNG  friendship quilt,

PNG Friendship quilt blocks made in 1998

I’m only going to quilt in the ditch mostly on this quilt around the logcabin of each block so I have taken the challenge and doing it by machine rather than my usual hand quilting.

My Wild Rose block of Esther Aliu ( see her new Free BOM here

http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com

has not grown much further!!!! I have just 3 little flowers

Hope fully Wild rose block to be????????

waiting patiently for me to make up the rest of the block!!!!

Well that’s it for this week hopefully next week there will be more to show if life slows down. Happy stitching all Glenda Down Under

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