Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Progress on all fronts....

It's been a while, hasn't it?  bad blogger...hahahaha   i have been in the studio in little chunks at a time....3 hours or so. but working on a dozen different things. Also doing some outside work before it gets too awfully cold. things on the crafty front include:

The last of the bugs in jars:

Butterfly


Snail


Ladybug


Ants


Now, when will those blocks become a quilt?  who knows...hopefully soon.

Also have 1 more candy in jars

Gumdrops


And i found some cute cartoonish vet blocks. i'm gonna make a wallhanging for our vet.

Hi, Fritz


Lampshade...if you have a dog....it's a good guess that he/she has worn one of these at one time or another...ours has. they are so pitiful. hahahaha


Nice, kitty, kitty... what kitty want want to go to the vet if he was a dog?  LOL


Say ahhhh!


This is not going to be easy


This won't hurt a bit 


Then there is a small quilt that is for our quilt group. it's our challenge for Christmas...to embellish it. my first challenge was to get the top together. but i am almost there. finish the red border and 1 more border then the fun begins.


Close up of blocks....Marilea, don't look....not pressed yet. LOL


Then there is my UFO Challenge quilt for this month. Ooyyyy...hardly any of this was done. i did many paper pieced blocks. the center didn't become what i envisioned at first...but there really isn't time. so i am faking it and putting together what i have. i surely hope this will be done by the end of the month. i haven't missed a monthly challenge yet for this year or last.  cross your fingers  ....  X


I need 20 more of these log cabin blocks for the top and bottom border....then another couple borders. i'm trying to get about queen size but don't think that will happen. after the log cabins i'm at 60 inches square. it MIGHT make 90 inches.


And, lastly, trying to get this customer quilt done so i can get mine on there when it is ready to go. I have all the SID done...now need to outline the leaves and fill in that background. i have a plan...just need to execute.


Here is a closeup of a leave.


Whooo....sometimes i make myself tired. LOL

Waiting for the studio to warm up some before i start the longarm. it doesn't like the cold and it was 57 degrees in here this morning. after the furnace cycles me up to about 67 degrees i can quilt. in the meantime, i'll embroider another vet block or two and see if i can finish up the borders on that fir tree.

Talk to you....

Later

Thursday, October 11, 2012

More things in jars

The embroidery machine has been humming....sometimes when i should have been quilting....ssshh!  don't tell..ok?

I have a couple more bugs done

The worm


The bee...that feisty fellow is trying to tip the jar and get out. LOL


And because I couldn't stand to wait till the bugs are done to start the candy in jars....i have done a couple candy, too.

On the candy canes I forgot not to embroider the holes in the jar...dang it.


 And the licorice sticks. i wish they would have printed this closer together...packed....instead of the black background showing...but it is what it is.  still cute.


I have been changing the size of the jars to make the quilt more interesting.

Still have some bugs to do and lots of candy. then we start the veggies in the canning jars.  a whole new obsession. hahahahahahahaha

Looking for me?...i'll be at the embroidery machine...till...

Later

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Little bug blocks

I seem to have this fascination with bugs lately. embroidery bugs that is. although, i got stung by a hornet today while cutting grass....not a friendly bug.

I found these bugs and thought they were awful cute...and there were 22 of them on an embroidery CD. usually you just get 10 or 12.  some little boy (or girl) will just love these in a quilt. here's what i got...

Red ant running


Ants having lunch


Bee


Beetle...one of my favorites...i think it's the bright colors....because he looks kind of creepy. LOL


Butterfly


Cuddlebug...he just wants a hug


Dragonfly


Earthworm....another really cute one


Firefly


Grasshopper


Honey Bee


Inchworm


Lady Fly


Ladybug 


Another ladybug


Lightning bug


Praying Mantis


Red ant...can't figure out what that is in her hand....a piece of corn?  or her purse?  LOL


 A sleeping bug


A spider....another favorite....reminds me of the daddy longlegs that hang out on my door at the studio


Wasp


Hornet


Cute, cute, cute....but now there is another UFO that needs to be put together and quilted....

Later

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