These are the squares that were embellished for me by other members of the RR I just finished. Thank you all for your lovely work. I still have one to do, but may just include these in my CQ book of 6" squares and forget about that one. There just isn't wall space enough to keep making up wall hangings.
Ing’s Work
Arlene’s Work
Meg’s Work
Kathy’s Work
Marya’s Work
Having received my English Garden RR squares home on Saturday, and being as ready for the Adventure in CQ as I feel I can be, gave me the push to get Meg's square done. She graciously gave me until after the event to send it off but I'm glad to have one more thing off my mind. This square was the biggest challenge of them all to me as I'm not used to working with printed fabrics. Are there any tips out there for how those of you who use these fabrics for piecing approach the embellishments? The fabrics are so pretty in their own right that it's hard to come up with motifs and seams to put over them. I hope Meg likes what I've done!
This RR is moving a little slowly so it's been a while since I've posted about it. I just couldn't come up with an idea for this, so I just started putting flowers on it. After I work on something for a while, I find it easier to fill in and give it a feeling of balance
Ing's squares have been with me over the holidays and I've been struggling to get back into the mood to stitch. I always have this problem after Christmas and all the hustle that goes with it. Read and nap are my favorite pastimes in January. With the Adventure in Crazy Quilting coming up fast and furious, I haven't been indulging in that either.
Ing made squares for this RR that are a parfait of bright pastel colors and pretty without embellishments. Following is a photo of the square I selected to embellish for her.
Kathy made all of her squares the same to see what each individual would come up with. I colored a lot of the areas including the cottage with colored pencils before I started adding flowers. I couldn't bring myself to stop until the flowers started to overflow the edge. Such fun!
This square is owned and pieced by Kathy Shaw.
While I'm on the "subject" of Kathy Shaw, I'd like to thank her again for the templates she sent to me several weeks ago. I've only used one so far as I haven't been doing much seam work, but I think I'm going to be using these a lot. If you want to find out more you'll have to check with her as I'm not sure if she is ready to start selling them. Her blog is http://www.shawkl.com/
The past few days I've been embellishing a 6" square for the English Garden RR I joined on CQI. This RR requires each member to piece six 6" blocks and each person in the RR embellishes one completely and mails them on to the next. Since there are 6 of us in the RR, at the end there is one square left for the owner to embellish. I will post photos here as we go along.
This square is owned and pieced by Marya Blackwell.
