Embroidery and Binding

This has been a busy week in the sewing department!  I have worked on three different hand stitching projects and finished a quilt.   Today, was the monthly meeting of the London Modern Guild and after our "business" meeting and show and tell, there was a delicious pot luck lunch and some Christmas crafts.  I decided to make an embroidered snowflake ornament. 

I traced the pattern onto the fabric with a pen that is almost the same colour as the thread I am using for the embroidery so you will have to look closely to see what is stitched already.  I have used two different colours of thread so far and may add some beads as well.

I also added some more stitches to my tree in my other embroidery project, started last week.

Next, I put together an I Spy baby quilt this week using Bonnie Hunter's Bricks and Stepping Stones pattern.

The top came together quickly and then I quilted it on my DSM with the walking foot, stitching an X in each brick and four-patch.

The binding fabric has been hanging around my sewing room for a few years and even after making the binding for this quilt, it is still not gone!  I cut 5 width of fabric strips, thinking this would be enough, but no, I was short by this much!

I cut another short strip and soon the binding was ready for hand sewing, which I did over the last couple of days, just in time for show and tell at today's guild meeting.

The backing is pieced from some flannel scraps I bought at the guild yard sale a few months ago.  I still have enough for another baby quilt backing.

Here is the finished quilt.  The four patches are made with white and navy blue, although it looks black in the pictures.

I see hours of fun ahead for the baby and his parents as they search for items in the fabrics on this quilt---I spy ice cream, boats, gnomes....

I will be linking up with Kathy and the other slow stitchers tomorrow morning.