A finish and moving on

I finished the toxic barrels. There are now French knots where I had some ratty fabrics from ripping out quilting stitches.  

Now I have to think about the next project. I am going to do one of the designs from the pixel series. It will either be gray scale or at least monochromatic. The 3 possibilities are below. I was leaning toward the floating circles. Sheila from Idaho Beauty

https://idahobeautyquilts.blogspot.com likes that one as well.  My daughter likes the one that looks like lighted windows. What do you think? Eventually I will make both if not all three of them.

Linking to Nina-Marie.

http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com

Also we leave for Prague today. I expect to get lots of quilt inspiration there.

Thanks for reading.

Chris

Circles sewn down

I have finished handstitching the circles on the hand dyed wool for the kit that my daughter gave me for Christmas. I am not much of a hand appliqué person so they are not perfect. I was surprised how some of the fabrics shrink up more than others making some of the circles smaller. The embroidery stitches that I will do around them will certainly compensate for that. I have picked out some threads for the embroidery as you can see in the second photo. Maybe that's too many? Should I leave out the blues? 

Did I mention that I am not much of an embroidery person either? I guess I will be learning some new skills!

Linking to Nina-Marie at http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

Circles

Linking to Nina-Marie at http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com

I have all the circles for the kit my daughter gave me for Christmas turned under. I have arranged them on the hand dyed wool and will begin stitching them down. After they are stitched I will add fancy embroidery around the edges. They will look like pebbles when they are done. I wanted something with a lot of handwork to take to meetings in our development.

I decided that the place to hang my blue and orange quilt is over the railing in our loft. I still have to sew binding on and wash it.

Thanks for reading.

Chris