A lovely surprise this morning from Heidi in the USA how wonderful it is when some one sends you a unexpected gift and hand made? This little owl is a potholder but far to nice for that so will use him as a place mat instead on my workstation table.
This wee postcard has to be seen to believe she is so so adorable, lots of added cute applications have been added all very personal I LOVE it.
I wanted to make a special secret project this year and was not sure how to go about it, I also did not want to start any more projects other than the ones I had all ready planned then thought why not make Little Hazel by Esther it is a stunning exciting design and that would be my starting point; I could kill two birds with one stone????? For about 4 weeks I have been thinking about making Little Hazel, thinking “What if” so off I went Saturday and started playing and have not been able to stop since. I’m not a fast sewer so I’m only at the laying out stage at present, I was amazed to see some one had made part 1 and Part 2 of Hazel in less than a day?????
I cut out a window using some A4 paper in the star shape and I could then see what I was going to end up with.
I wanted each star to have different fabrics but be in harmony with each other
Having fun making up 4 different coloured strips 10inchs long to cut out 8 star shapes, 10inchs gives me lots of length to play with.
Starting to place my diamonds together, this was late Sat evening and I was to tired to make any more so took this photo at night time, interesting how night light changes the colours so much.
I have a star?
adding a corner stone using parts of a 6 1/2 inch 16patch block left over from a project.
a circle is forming will it work????
Looking interesting!
After all that I thinking it worked LOL
I will use green in the next stage so laying it on a green back ground.
What a difference the green back ground makes????
I have also been working on my PNG quilt and Love Entwined, I have prepped all the leaves and flowers for two corners of the PNG quilt and slowly appliquéing my zig zags down on LE. So not much time to get bored.
All my leaves and hearts to make the flower are basted ready for me to start appliquéing this morning after I have visited some of the links on Esther’s blog.
Still appliquéing those zigzags on my LE may be this week I will start appliquéing my Dutch Pixies?
I took the garden photos around 7.30am this morning.
Looking up in to the canopy.
All photos taken early this morning around 7.30am
Thanks for dropping in visitors are all ways fun; Im now off to link with Esther on her WIPs or WOW today and work on my PHD love this one and love saying it when people who are not quilters ask me “But what do you DO?” I say “I’m always working on my PHD” Projects Half Done. LOL
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Thank you for dropping in to my little part of this amazing world.
Cheers Glenda
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