A few more Buildings of the World

Still having to take things apart and re-do.  i thought i was better at this....but these are challenging.

Empire State Building ... New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ....  New York

Jumeirah Beach Hotel ...  Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Topkapi Palace ... Istanbul, Turkey

Today i printed off about 15 more patterns....and they are harder than these....more pieces.  i'll check back in when i get a few of them done.

Famous Buildings of the World

On a recent trip to JoAnn's i found this book.  i like paper piecing and I like these types of series of things. i was hooked. haha  what's another new project...right? these are 7" blocks

Eiffel Tower...Champ de Mars, Paris, France

Great Pyramid of Giza...Giza, Egypt

Hallgrimskirkja...Reykjavik, Iceland ....  never heard of this one

John Hancock Center .... Chicago, Illinois   this one has a wrong colored piece in it.  it is staying there.

Pantheon .... Rome, Italy    when i was a kid this was called the Parthenon....is that just another spelling?  or am i remembering it wrong? or we all pronounced it erroneously? who knows.

Sears (Willis) Tower  ....  Chicago, Illinois

Tokyo Tower ... Tokyo, Japan

Transamerica Pyramid ... San Francisco, California

Washington Monument ... Washington, DC

OK...so far i have done 9 of these....and that took me the better part of a week. LOL   there are 50 in all. i might be done by 2018.  i started with the simplest ones....and i can tell you that i have not done even one of them yet without taking pieces apart and starting over. one of them has an error ... wrong color fabric....but i didn't see it until it was finished, so i didn't take it out. these are HARD. haha  it will be my winter project. every. night....until they are finished...or i am finished.  pray for me. hahahahaha

Nursery Rhymes I

This one marinated almost 3 years....pieced on March 1, 2013.  blocks are appliqued with embroidery machine.

It's 48 x 70"  It has a bit of weight to it. the top is all flannel, except for the applique. and the 'batting' is a mattress pad thing.

Three men in a tub

Jack and Jill

Old king cole

The cat and the fiddle

The cow jumped over the moon

The dish ran away with the spoon

Mistress Mary, quite contrary

Row, row your boat

Ducky

Jack be nimble

Hickory dickory dock

Peter, peter pumpkin eater

The back is a muslin. quilted with Baptist Fan boards from Quiltazoid

Top thread is a Glide Chestnut, bobbin is So Fine #457...and the binding is a stripe from the stash

Next up is one for my sister, so i might not get any more of mine done this month. i only have 3 so far....maybe i can squeeze in another one. but when i get my sister's done, i will go up there and deliver it and stay for a couple days to visit with the kids..... and all those dogs.  haha

Plant Your Garden

This little top came to be because i could not throw away the leftovers. i had about a half yard of fabric with cute little garden pictures. so i cut them out and put some selvages around them. i made 30 blocks

Some garden green for the border. i now put the sashings on as i make the blocks. i find it easier than trying to match up blocks with a sashing that goes all the way across the quilt.

I used yellow, green, red and brown selvages. sewn down with a gray thread

Basket of berries. i like the fuzzy selvages

Bee hive

Daisy

The garden keeper....i guess that is me. haha  wonder where i can get some wings

My favorite pic...Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade....plant your garden. 

Tending the garden....takes lots of water

And there were tiny butterflies and little bitty pics, too. i managed to save a few of them

It is 36x44"  

Now....off to the next project

Bugs

This little bug quilt was pieced on April 13, 2015.  i pulled it out of order to do today because of the 'batting' i wanted to use.  it was the right size. when i moved my son up here, he had a bunch of furniture pads. these were not the nice quilted ones but a cheaper version..not quilted. they seem to be .... maybe felt? .... maybe wool (doubt that). anyway, i put one through the washer and dryer and it worked out just fine. so, that is what is in this quilt....a furniture moving pad. LOL it does make the quilt a little heavy. but i have several more of them, so they will all be used. save my batting money.

Blocks are machine embroidery

And i had this wild fish fabric for the border. fish and bugs just seemed to go together.

The bugs are just too darn cute

The background for the bugs is an olive stripe

The backing came from my stash and used the last of that fabric, except for maybe a 12" square that went in the scrap box.

Quilting was boards from Quiltazoid

Came out to be 46x58".  Top thread was Key Lime Glide; bobbin was a bright green

This will be a donation....somewhere.  i had it just a bit wonky on the frame and didn't notice until i had gone so far that i didn't want to frog.....so it is what it is. and the last row got a bit too much space from the row before it....wasn't paying attention....and, once again, wasn't frogging.  i am a very casual quilter these days. LOL    but, when i pull out a special one to quilt i will do a better job. now....done is good.  only about 95 to go. LOL