Chihully Challenge

This challenge was to reproduce a photo from the Dale Chihully exhibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens. The photo is of an old row boat full of glass balls. Red glass pieces were hung from the cacti in the background. My background consists a "chenille like" set of layers. The bottom layer is red fabric and it peeks through like the red glass did at the exhibit.

Ticker Tape

On Wednesday our Neighborhood Bee worked on making Ticker Tape blocks. I'm going to make a steering wheel cover from mine. My steering wheel measures about 15". I used an 18" circle and fused some flannel to the back of the circle. I will stitch around each little piece, probably with a zig zag stitch, then put it together.

I'm going to try to put in a link to the Picasa album that has the rest of the pictures from our group...

Ruth's progress

All blocks pieced ...ready to be sewn into blocks

Chris' progress

All 8 orange units pieced.

Ruth's 4th of July Quilt

We spent two hours today laying out Ruth's quilt.

50% Complete

On the orange points. This is r-e-a-l-y slow going!

First Large Corner

Twenty -five pieces in each corner unit! Yikes! And some of them are l-o-n-g!