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This is my bare block prepared for the CQI Beaded RR #2. This is the first round robin I have gone in for almost a year because of time constraints so I am really looking forward to it! There are some wonderful stitchers in it with me: Rebecca, Clairee, Gerry and Simona. I have admired photos of their work and now I will get to see it in person! I can't wait! I'll post pictures as the block progresses.

This week saw another project done - I must be on a roll! This is a crazy quilt pillow for dd, done in denims. It was started in a round robin when she was in Brazil as an exchange student. I was missing her terribly and my online friends were so supportive and we all poured lots of love into this. I gave it to dd yesterday and she was very happy it was done. Thank you to everyone who stitched on it! First off, I have to answer the first question - no, this was not particularly difficult to embroider on. As the denim was recycled from old jeans and it was pieced on a soft piece of flannelette , the fabric was very soft. For the most part it was like stitching through butter. The only difficulties were in the piecing and construction of the pillow itself and that was because of the thickness of the seams in places. I did manage to break a couple needles on the machine. lol The two leather labels were added strategically to cover holes in my piecing as was the frayed denim h...

DD loves her job at Subway Restaurant and wanted to give her boss something special as a token at their Christmas party last week. We decided that a small t-shirt quilt would be fun, made of all her uniform shirts from the different promotions during which she has worked. The picture is only of a portion of the quilt. I have to say it was fun to make and only took a few days. The best part is that it is a project I started AND finished! lol First I cut out the fronts and backs (which have graphics as well) of the t-shirts in 16" squares. I put a light weight, non-woven fusible interfacing on the backs which stabilized everything really well and made them very easy to work with. The small corner blocks are done the same way with the little logos on the sleeves of the t-shirts. The sashings were 100% cotton - I used black in order to try to make the other colours "pop". For the back I was able to use a powder blue cotton sheet and because of time constraints (dd ...

In January, 2005, CQI had an online class available to its members on how to make this crazy quilt Pansy Pouch. Peggy White of Kalico Kottage taught the class and I enjoyed it immensely. Since I am currently working on a couple projects that are the "not to show until after its over" type, I thought when I had this out today that I might share it instead. It remains one of my favourite pieces of cq. Peggy taught us that we could be a little less traditional and did not need to have every seam embellished but that it was enjoyable to meander here and there with our feather stitches, etc.