March Projects

Great! I got a quilt top quilted!

This is such a fun little top. The pattern is, "Madame Butterfly," from the book, "Charm School." I think I used a batik layer cake from Island Batiks

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I am challenging myself to keep my quilting simple so I finish more quickly...

I have soooo many tops that I want to quilt! 

I still did more quilting than I intended...but freehand so no major ruler work.

My granddaughters really love Cuddle backings on quilts so I went through my stash and pulled several tops the would work with 60" Cuddle widths. 

The next planned quilting job is this panel quilt, "Dragonfly Dreams." 

I have a great piece of Cuddle for it. 

 

I did finish piecing my Winter quilt top...another for the To Be Quilted pile.

Of course...half my mind always seems to be on the next quilt to start. 

I pulled some green batiks for the upcoming 

Summer Quilt Along Scott Flanagan is starting May 5th.

I've ordered some more batiks from the Fat Quarter shop...I hope to get a really dark green and a couple of other greens to add to the colorway.

I made one more doll dress. The fabric has been in my stash for at least 30 years! I bought it to smock a baby dress. Works great for dolls!

I also found an interesting  Barbie Felt Playset kit on the Fat Quarter Shop website. It has good reviews and runs about $20 so thought it was worth a try. It took a solid afternoon to sew it all together...bonding all the fusible interfacing and fusible fleece took the longest amount of time...and really made my iron dirty despite my best efforts.

It opens flat with big pockets on each side to stash the clothes and the Barbies.

The clothes are not interfaced... just felt you carefully cut out. Paper dolls for the 2020s.

My granddaughters, 2 and 5-years-old, enjoyed playing with them. 

A pretty good toy to keep at Gigi's house.

One of the biggest projects I tackled in March was finally finishing the seven cross stitched shamrocks I made last spring. 

I made matching cording with DMC floss. I stuffed them with a combination of lizard litter and Poly-fil I like the weight the lizard litter adds but the Poly-fil really helps keep the corners nice and full. I glued the cording in place...Aleene's Tacky glue. 

I finished cross stitching the last two Jim Shore ornaments from 2023, Pinecone Gnome and Mushroom Gnome. 

I started another Mill Hill Jim Shore series, Chick ornaments from 2018. These ornaments have a front and backside.

Jim Shore designs have so many color changes...so cute and little...they took more time to stitch than I anticipated.

I'm on the last piece of the Easter Parade kit from Merry Stockings...the egg. Hoping I get this set completed for display by the end of the week.

We have a little snow falling now and then which doesn't amount to much except to get us all frustrated with messy roads...but mostly we are down to bare ground...though it is frozen ground. We are getting lots of wonderful sunshine with 11 hours of sunlight. I'm very envious looking a blogs of warmer locations where green plants are sprouting.