PENCILED FLOWERS

Over the last three months we have been pretty much locked in our home, with only banking or grocery shopping to occupy us.  This has meant that I had way more time on my hands and spent way more time in my sewing room.  I am a hoarder of UFO's; I start things and stash them.  So once I ran out of immediate projects, and could not shop to start new ones UFO's became the only thing to keep me busy.

 A good couple of years ago I started this project.  I copied floral prints onto gold paper (a paper that you can trace through, pin to fabric and then sew through it and tear the paper away easily).  I did put a stabilizer on the back of my fabric before sewing the designs on and used very small stitiches.  Once I had the stitched design on I use Derwent Coloursoft and Intense pencils to color in my designs.  I did find that the stitching helped keep me within the design lines.  Pretty much like you were coloring in a color book.

I made three floral blocks.

Once I got all three quilted with in the colored florals areas, I had to sew the three together and quilt it to a back and batting.  

I decided on this rather heavy quilting design.  It took forever to do, lots of sewing, but I am very pleased with it.  

So done at last.  I bound it in the cream back ground fabric.  Yes the center block has a slightly difference back ground.  I have no idea why I did that although I like it!I wish I could say that things are rather dull around here, but a minor dry rot and trim painting turned into a major roof replacement last week.  I guess we can't complain to loudly as the old roof was 27 years old.  This might put a bit of a dent in the quilt budget though. 

For you fans of of my daughter's peacocks and ducks.  One of her young male peacocks has been showing off for their little female peacock.  She's a real snob it seems, poor guy resorted to flirting with a couple of the 13 ducklings my daughter's lady duck hatch earlier in the spring.  Some guys just don't get a break.

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