Elephants on Parade done!

I finished quilting and binding my Elephants on Parade this week.  I started this quilt at a workshop with Lorna McMahon in the fall.  Lorna blogs at Sew Fresh Quilts.  I used lots of my black and white prints for the elephants and some bright scraps for the other animals and the flowers.  The quilting added some wonderful texture!

The binding is white with small black dots.  The backing is gray flannel with large dots. 

I used an extra elephant block for the label.  I had Lorna sign a piece of fabric at the workshop for the label.  

My favourite quilt holder was pressed into service this morning. 

This quilt will be living at my house.  I will be linking up to Kathy's slow Sunday stitching tomorrow morning. This quilt makes me smile!

I'm off to work on my secret projects...

Adding more + signs

As my regular readers know, I have been making a few EPP plus signs each week for my slow Sunday stitching.  This week, I added 4 more to the pile....

I love how the different fabrics add texture and fun patterns to the collection.  

I am using each fabric once...I may need to raid my friends' stashes soon to add more variety to my plus sign collection.   Which plus sign is your favourite so far?  I like the bikes! 

I pin basted my Elephants on Parade quilt this week and started quilting it tonight.  I quilted one row of elephants with horizontal wavy lines...this is one of the fancy stitches on my sewing machine.  I love the texture that it is creating. 

I am using a pale yellow Auriful thread top and bottom.  The backing is a soft gray flannel with white polka dots.  

With any luck, I will quilt another couple of sections tomorrow afternoon.  

I have a couple of secret projects underway at the moment.  One is a Canada 150 challenge for the Elgin Piecemakers. The big reveal is later this month.  My piecing is done so I need to get it quilted this week and complete my project.  The other project is a commission.  I have lots of things going on to keep me busy and out of trouble these days.  For those of you that read last week's post about me having the "crud", I am happy to report that I am feeling back to my normal self!  It only lasted 4-5 days and then left the building.  I am glad to be back to my normal energy level and activities.  

I took this picture of the windmills today.  I love the shapes the blades make when they overlap as they spin....perhaps some quilty inspiration...

A Few Blocks and some EPP

I stole a few moments of sewing time this week and made this 12.5" block for this month's comfort quilt for the Elgin Piecemakers guild.  The colour this month are green, purple and white.  I got out some graph paper and drew this out before piecing it.

The purple and green fabrics are fairly new to my stash but the white on white print has been hanging around my sewing room for several years!  

During our weekly sewing night, I worked on these flower blocks for my elephant parade quilt.  On Friday afternoon, two more little elephants herded onto my design wall...

I have all the yellow pieces and the black ears cut out for the rest of the elephants already so it should not take too long to finish the last 9 small elephants for this quilt.  

Tonight, I took out my English paper piecing and made another hexie flower. I started a third and then ran out of paper hexagons...  

Here are all the hexie flowers so far as well as the first plus sign for another EPP project.

I like the way the organic wavy lines look on the plus sign.

I have some more black and white scraps to use for this project.  I may add some splashes of colour as well...

I am linking up to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching.  I hope to make a few more plus signs tomorrow.