Found my Sew-Jo!

 I have had a productive week in the sewing room!  I think those scrappy colour blocks that I was making last week got me going again and this week I was on a roll.  First, I quilted and bound my January Colour Blocks quilt.  I considered a cross hatch but ended up with diagonal lines of quilting using light gray thread. 

Green solid fabric was used for the binding. 

I will add a label shortly.  

I made a pink block for my Rainbow Scrap Quilt for this year. 

I noticed after it was on the design wall that I made a slight oops, so I took it apart and fixed it.  Looks better now. 

 Next up, I made a couple of Comfort Quilt blocks for the Elgin Piecemakers Guild.  The first one is called the Maple Leaf Star--we were each given the background fabric and told to use different shades of purple in our blocks.  I used a piece of purple ombré fabric for the star. This is the March block. 

For February, we were asked to make a blue block with white tree(s).  

January's block features gray, blue, yellow and white fabrics. I received the rulers to make this block for Christmas and had fun trying them out.  A non-quilty friend thinks this one looks like PacMan. 

I am trying to get caught up on my Modern BOM as well this week.  This block has 126 pieces and is called Pixels.  This is the block for January and I am in the process of making the block for Febuary. I will show it next week.  It looks a bit wonky in this picture but it is square!

The blue flower at the bottom of the wreath in my Love Birds counted cross stitch picture is done (except for a few stitches at the left side) and I am working my way up the right side to go around the wreath counter clockwise.  I will finish off the light and dark green leaves next and move on to the next flower this week. 

My daughter has been doing a bit of embroidery most evenings. She started a new picture this week.  I sent her some ecru floss I found in my thread box so she should be able to finish the flower picture shown in last week's post this week. 

Her counted cross stitch city is also progressing...someone guessed that it is Dubai last week, but that's not correct.  Apparently, it is a European city. 

Finn keeps a close eye on her while she stitches. 

I will link up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge folks on Saturday and the Slow Sunday Stitchers on Sunday morning.