Jo went together very quickly over a couple of days during my evening slow-stitching time. I've been amazed at how smoothly the partial seams go together when you are hand-piecing - so much easier than when doing them by machine!
Jo joins her friends Evelyn, Jane, Louisa, Penelope, and Cathy in my library of blocks. Each block of this QAL has been new to me, but maybe to others they are classics?! :)
Sharing at Elm Street Quilts' Jo link-up. Thanks, Patty and Kristin, for sharing all of these great blocks, plus tips and tutorials for making them!
I've been enjoying hand-piecing these new blocks so much that I was inspired to get out this blue and white project that I had put away for awhile, and work on sewing up the quilt top.
This combines four Gail Pan embroidery designs that I stitched in a variegated blue floss in 2019, with some hand-pieced blue and white stars.
The last few days I've been able to stitch the first two rows together. It won't take long to finish the flimsy, and then I'll have to decide how to quilt it.
Two rows stitched together.
My favorite design.
I'll be working on this again today for my Slow Sunday Stitching,
and sharing at Kathy's Quilts.
15 comments:
Jo's blocks looks nice but I LOVE the embroidered blocks flimsy! How to quilt is always the problem but I can't wait to see what you decide. Happy stitching!
I shall watch with interest to see how you quilt your blue and white flimsy. I have a redwork and patched block flimsy that's been sitting around for ages and I just have no idea what to do with it!
Jo is just darling in your reds! I can't wait to see how you decide to quilt the blue one. Happy stitching.
Those red and white blocks are lovely but I love your blue and white ones! Great work!
love both of these it is always nice to mix patchwork with stitchery I think.
I love those red/white blocks. Can't believe they are hand pieced. What wonderful work. I've tried to make a red/white quilt but seem to always stray off course and add another color or more.
And embroidery is always good no matter what form it takes.
Love the embroidered blocks! Gorgeous projects
I'm SEW glad that these new red blocks have brought you back to your blue ones!! Hoping for a finish for you. SOON!
Your blue stars and embroideries look so nice, that's going to be a beautiful quilt.
Those blue stars with the embroidery blocks are so pretty. How satisfying it must be to have a quilt that you've completed by hand! Will you hand quilt it as well? I love how your red/white blocks are taking shape too!
Every time you make one of those blocks I think it's my favorite, but this may be it! They all look so pretty together. That blue quilt is going to be so gorgeous!
So beautiful Gail Pan stitcheries and very nice blocks, both the red and the blue! :-)
Love seeing your Book Club blocks. Makes me want to get another hand-piecing project underway. The Starry Gail quilt is gorgeous. Looks to me like putting those blocks together might've been a booger of a job. Certainly would have scared me off! Lol!
So pretty... love the blue and white hand pieced hand embroidered project! ENJOY!
Thanks for linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching!
My love of two color quilts continues to grow with your projects!
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