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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Christmas Quilt Along Saturday

11:35 am  I finished my block, and I like it.


Now that this is done, I need to find a good way to use it.  This is the first quilt block I have designed, albeit with heavy inspiration from another source. 

The other napkin I had is a snowman, and I was going to use white fun fur to outline and fill in his shape.  I might do that next.  Time to pay visits to the other participants.
FYI:  This Christmas Quilt Along is hosted by Sue from Quilt Times.  If you want to know more about it, click the Christmas Tree button on the left.


8:52 am  Good Morning!  This is the second Saturday of the month, so it's qal day.  I am working on the Napkin Challenge I signed up for with Nina Lise from Mrs.Moen.com.  The idea is to use a design on a napkin as a point of inspiration for creating something.  I'm doing a quilt block.  I have two napkins that I immediately liked.  I was inspired with several ideas for both, so we'll see which turns out the best. This is the first one:

At first, I wanted to do a kind of multi-media design, using applique, embroidery, and three-dimensional items.  I did this mock-up:
I wanted to use fun fur yarn for the evergreens, but didn't like the color I found, so I'm skipping that.  That might be embroidery, or I won't put in any at all.

Then, I decided to start over and use fabric for the bow, and just do the holly, candy canes, and bow.  This is where I am right now:
I'm going to keep going with this block, and if I like it enough when I'm done, and I like it so far, I'll submit it today. 

Hope everyone else is having an enjoyable Saturday.

7 comments:

  1. Hello. Good to have you here with us again. I think your challenge piece looks great so far, but I liked the first one too.

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  2. Me again. Your block is brilliant. I like the look of the snowman too.

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  3. Go and send your block in it's vibrant :-) x x x

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  4. Vibrant as it has Christmas written all over it :-) x x x

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  5. Love the way the block turned out and can't wait until you show us the snowman. Hope you had fun sewing along with us!

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  6. How interesting....I haven't heard of the napkin challenge, but you seem to have nailed it!!! Good job....

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  7. That block is a great one! Congrats on the designing!

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