Forgetful

I posted these on my blog a while back, even uploaded them to flickr, but forgot to post them here -- where they belong. I got carried away with Nadia's and made three blocks.

For Amanda -- clearly I need a better iron.

And for Wendy. I was trying to make this reflective of my personality -- jeans, t-shirt, blend into the background, barefoot. However, I ended up with footless bald girl. And that's just ridiculous, because I have an overabundance of hair. Inconsistencies aside, I enjoyed putting this together. I love the people blocks. I had long ago (when I was in college LONG ago) seen one with men/women/children in different bright colors. I put it in my file and never did it. Wendy's block is making me want to pull it out again. So fun.

nadia's forest

I also loved those little animals peeking out of their little holes. They had to have some trees to live in. Nadia, I hope you don't mind that I used a lot of my own fabric for this one. I had just enough faux bois left to give them their own little forest. The Heather Ross fabric between the trees was meant to add a little plant diversity.

After I appliqued the animals to their trees, they didn't stand out nearly as much as I had hoped, so I used some embroidery floss to outline the holes and create a little texture.

Oh, that cute little racoon face! Not as cute as a new baby though.

blocks for Nadia

Hi Nadia,

I hope you are doing great with your new baby! I had a lot of fun stitching up your blocks yesterday. I was in a groove and ended up making three! I kept the blocks simple in order to show off your fabrics. I did this one first. How much simpler could I get?  ha ha.


Then came this block.  You'll notice I added in some of my own fabric here: the sunspots just seemed to go so well!


 And here, I wanted to use up the last piece of the elephants, and realized these donkeys would go quite nicely with your colors and theme!

I hope you like them!  They will be in the mail tomorrow.

Rossie

ETA:  I'm sending Nadia an email to this effect, but she probably should not use the block with the donkeys as there seems to be a problem with that fabric fading:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchtoastcake/4399660496/in/pool-freshmodernquilts 

Amber and Nadia's blocks

I've managed to get these blocks out to their owners on time, but forgot to post here. Oops.

This one was for Amber. Looking at those happy cheerful fabrics with so many more winter months ahead seems almost cruel.

This one was my first attempt at needle turn applique. I hid the far less than perfect edges with some blanket stitching. "Bird of Paradise" came to mind when I opened the package of fabrics, which led to this design.

Nadia's block is a take on the "What a Bunch of Squares" quilt from Denyse Schmidt. I liked the vertical feel that black fabric had, so I elongated the center piece to showcase it.

The split stitch embroidery was taken straight from a flower in the taupe print.

Looking forward to seeing your quilts, ladies!