Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Thirty-Seven

Some progress on my San Man Originals Snowman Collage. Ran into some color and size problems with Sunflower Snow but I think I can fix the other five patterns to work with it.

I attended my first ever meeting of a local quilting guild, Black Swamp Quilters, on Thursday and while the ladies were wonderfully welcoming , I think I may be WAY in over my head here. My quilting skills are zilch and they do such lovely work. But the meeting did inspire me to root through my stack of UFOs from those quilting classes I took back in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s and dig out this raw edge applique study. I finished up the free embroidery (you can't really see it but there are words on the green background) and assembled the three pieces with sashing (ripped out the sashing five times too and finally gave up --- piecing isn't supposed to be so stressful!), Now, to get up the courage to actually quilt something for the very first time...

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Thirty-Seven

Sep 16, '09 11:45 AM

Some progress on my San Man Originals Snowman Collage. Ran into some color and size problems with Sunflower Snow but I think I can fix the other five patterns to work with it.

I attended my first ever meeting of a local quilting guild, Black Swamp Quilters, on Thursday and while the ladies were wonderfully welcoming , I think I may be WAY in over my head here. My quilting skills are zilch and they do such lovely work. But the meeting did inspire me to root through my stack of UFOs from those quilting classes I took back in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s and dig out this raw edge applique study. I finished up the free embroidery (you can't really see it but there are words on the green background) and assembled the three pieces with sashing (ripped out the sashing five times too and finally gave up --- piecing isn't supposed to be so stressful!), Now, to get up the courage to actually quilt something for the very first time...

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Thirty-Six

Back to San Man Original snowmen. "Summer Snow" is now done except for the beads. On to "Sunflower Snow"...

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Thirty-Six

Sep 9, '09 1:49 PM

Back to San Man Original snowmen. "Summer Snow" is now done except for the beads. On to "Sunflower Snow"..

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Walking to Town

The beads (snowflakes) were not as bad as the French knots called for but they were worse than the backstitching! But it's DONE! WOO HOO!

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Thirty-Five

The backstitching is taking longer than I thought! Still some branches and two more trees to do!

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Thirty-Four

Back in January 2008, this is what my collage of San-Man Original "snowmen" looked like. So far, it consists of the following charts:"Carrot Snow", "Lilac Snow", "Luck Snow", and "Could It Bee Snowing" (although beads and buttons are still to be applied) with "Summer Snow" in progress:

And this is what it looked like after one day of stitching with white this past week on "Summer Snow". I know - you can barely see it but it's there...

I had picked this piece up to have something to do while I waited for "Walking to Town" to dry after washing it in an attempt (only partly successful) to remove the marks made by my Q-snaps on the navy Aida. Once dried, I started on backstitching:

Maybe one more week? After backstitching, there is the beading. And then back to my San-Man snowmen!