Catching Up!

We had a spectacular long week-end for Victoria Day this year. Lots of yard work got done, the mower and BBQ are is working order, the dandelions got fertilized :-(.

I still managed to get some sewing time in too.

Marcelle Medallion has taken over my life and my sewing room!

Fabric scattered everywhere!

I ended up changing out 2 more flying geese due to the red fabric fiasco.

Now, I have added 2 more borders.

I used a collection of Spot On for the brick row, and a really nice New Moon print for the wide border, and a bit of Glimma in the corners.

For the plus row, I'm using Carnaby Street, which was the original inspiration for this quilt!

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I did manage to take a few moments out of my quality Marcelle time to do up some bee blocks, mail finished blocks, and finish some charity blocks.

In the Star of Africa bee, I made a paper pieced block for Brinda, and mailed it before I changed my mind and tore it all apart!

It was such a huge block @ 15", that I didn't have enough dark blue to complete it.

I feel bad about this block, but it took me hours and hours to paper piece , so I decided to send it as is and offer a sincere apology!

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For our Happiness Circle @ dGS, Chelsea is doing a huge patchwork heart surrounded by low volume blocks. It is going to be absolutely spectacular!

As I don't have a large stash of pink/red fabrics, I got to do both blocks in the low volume background.

By the way, is the new Flickr format freaking anybody else out!!

I don't like change people!!

First Google Reader, and now this! :-)

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I'm really loving the Simply Solids bee on Flickr, and for May, Shena sent us a tutorial for an Alberta Star.

I love this block, and so many different colour combinations are showing up.

 I took the brighter is better route!

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Finally, our Saskatoon MQG decided to piece together a couple of quilts for charity using a bundle of Snap Pop that I was fortunate to win.

We chopped up the 36 FQ's and divided it amongst those who wanted to participate.

We could do any 12" blocks we wanted!

I did 4 blocks and used some of my own solids.

This last block served a double purpose!

I'm planning to use this Rolling Stone block when my turn comes up in August for the Simply Solids bee. so I thought this would be a good time to test out the construction!

I'm quite happy with, my wonky colours aside!

Well, that's a catch up (mostly for myself!) on what I have been working on the last few weeks!

Now, back to Marcelle!