LINNING UP MY 'SISTERS'

 One of main goals this week was to get my sister blocks into a quilt top--or should I say the rest of the sister blocks--as I had already done some--used '13' into a small quilt for a wall hanging--though I will need to move to a much larger apartment for the wall space!!!

As I was squaring up my blocks to 7" squares--I found I only had 20 that I could do that with--the other 5 came out too small for some reason--so what to do--

1. recut all the sisters in 7" squares to 6 1/2"

2. make 5 new sister blocks

I decided to make 5 new ones--for some reason I do love to make these blocks--so I went though the colors I had and discovered I had 5 single color family blocks so I went though my stash and matched up 5 new sister blocks--

On the left is the one I had already done--on the right is the new one--

Purple, green, yellow, orange and plum color--

then I was ready to pin them up on the wall board and arrange them--

and then the fun really began--sewing the blocks together into rows--That happened on Friday afternoon and on Saturday afternoon--I sewed the rows together and got this far--

So I am at the same spot as the wall hanging--needing to decide on borders???

And here is this week's Country block--

There was embroidery on this one--where as before they were mostly all applique!

And here is this week's heart block--

The author of this block had used rick rack again -with the heart laying on top--but the only color I had was black and it was 'stiff as a board' for some reason and I could not sew through it--so once again I did my own thing and came up with an embroidered loopy design going around it--it also needs a bow--but again-I need to go shopping to get some really narrow ribbon!!!  Who wants to go shopping this week???

And here is Project sheet #3 of Melisa's Christmas embroideries--

My gingerbread man looks like he is running away???  And I have started Sheet #4--

And here is where I am on some other projects--

more Christmas hearts got appliqued--

As for the Mr. Jack blocks--here is where I am on Block #3-

the pumpkins and cat need their eyes and they are done--but I still have fall leaves and felt stars to embroidery on, in the wool pieces yet--

and here is where I am on my Counted Cross stitching project--

I am nearly done here--just some flowers on her hat and some other little details--wonder what I will pick to do next????   Isn't that chicken on the back of the lamb cute???????

Time for my lunch and then I need to wrap some birthday gifts and get it ready to mail--the rocking chair will keep me comfy while I watch the race in my 'old' home town of Watkins Glen and I work on hand stitching projects, later this afternoon!!!   And we just had a nice rain storm here--so the birds and plants will be happy!!!

HAVE FUN THIS WEEK AND DO SOMETHING NEW AND DIFFERENT AND LET ME KNOW

HUGS, DI