Blocks 2 and 3 started!

I have made a start on the Vignette blocks two and three.  I have managed to complete all the piecing so now I am up to the applique, then lots of tracing and lots of stitching.

Because I am using different fabrics from the magazine, I find it quite difficult choosing which fabric to use and where!  I do not have a lot of experience in this!  However I love the birds that I was able to fussy cut, here is one of them:

So I had a really productive weekend sewing and I love that I am now up to the hand stitching (well, once I do the tracing) so I can take it with me where I go!
Happy stitching, Wendy 

Progressing

I have started blocks 2 and 3 and am about half way. I chose to do the stitching all in one bit rather than cut the background fabric in half. It is coming along nicely but it is a very long piece! I cut my stitching fabric wider than the final size to make it easier to stitch.

Happy stitching

Sylvia

The Giveaway Winner ...

... for the Where the Wind Blows fat quarter bundle  ...

... Congratulations goes to ...

Jessica of Scrap 'n' Happy

Jessica can you please email me your postal address so that I can post the bundle to you.

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway.

 I couldn't get the random generator pic to work :-( and with being so late with the draw, I decide to not worry about trying to post the pic.

I'm so sorry that it has taken me a little while longer than I thought, before I drew this giveaway ... we have been a little busy here on the farm the last week.

Happy stitching, P

Threads and Sweet Broderie, on the way to me, but I couldn't wait...

I also kind of started panicking, what if my stitching sucked and I didn't like the blocks because my stitching was so bad. I decided I needed to do some practising to make sure it was ok, and I was so excited about looking through Vignette issue 2 (Thanks for the quick postage Perri!) that I wanted to do something Vignette-ish...

So I worked on my project preparation. I decided to prettify (is that a word?) my zip lock bags in with fabric stickers. (I bought some double sided tape, stuck the fabric on one side and stuck it to the bag), then wrote the block numbers on them.
I used leftover scraps from a Fat Quarter of fabrics by Patty Young from the Playdate Collection.

Then I realised that the remember notice board project in Vignette issue 1 had similar stitching on it. So I made it up with scraps; cut it in half (if I had done one of the stitcheries up side down, I needed have cut it, but only got my idea after); added a zipper and lining and made it into a pouch to store my zip lock bags.

This is exactly the same pattern as the Remember Project, I just changed the words to read Vignette Project!

That is the front, and the back is below :)
My stitching did need work, but I will try to get in some more practise before I get started officially!

Hello!!

I want to introduce myself.

My name is Tonya,

but I am known around blogland as Hillbilly.

You can find me over at Hillbilly Handiworks.

I just received the first two issues of Vignette

yesterday in the mail!

Getting all that beautiful floss is bittersweet 

knowing that Lecien is located in Japan. 

(The floss is Cosmo from Lecien.)

I just can't keep my eyes from the tv--

watching all that devastation!

I will be slow starting.

Well, I guess I am already well behind

all of you. 

But, I have a quilt ministry--

and I have 3 very pressing quilts that I 

absolutely have to finish before I can start on this.

I'll check back with you when I get started.

In the mean time, 

I enjoy watching yours come along.

In true Hillbilly Style,

I invite ya all to come over yonder to My blog

and sit ya down a spell and 

take a gander around...

and say, "Howdy!"

Yippee Vignette Two is here.

My Vignette Two has arrived so I shall be able to get stitching again - cannot wait to get started ..................

Finally ...

... I have finished stitching Block 1 ...



... I have just noticed that one butterfly doesn't have its body stitched ... will fix that now ... done...

I have chosen to stitch my blocks without the shoo-fly border ... will decide if I wish to add the

shoo-flies when I have finished all the individual blocks.

All the pieces for block 2 & 3 have been cut and will trace stitcheries and piece over the next few days.

Happy stitching, P