Pick A Petal Progress (3) and a Surprise

Last month Pick A Petal had me making low volume log cabins. I did them by machine and they went together quickly and easily. 

For the current month, I am to applique and embroider stemmed and leaved flowers to those log cabins. I alluded to that challenge in an earlier post, where I outlined my long-term plan for getting that work done at some point. And I've made some progress on one side of that border's bonding and cutting. Stay tuned.

I thought I might apply the first border to the center medallion and picked among the 40 month-two-and-month-three blocks eight that I thought would do the job. The remaining blocks will be the border that goes on after those enhanced log cabins. Confused? Yeah, so am I. 

Anyway, they're up on the wall to fester for a couple of days while I decide if they are really the ones I want at this stage.

Since I have about another week before the next Merricks shows up, I've re-intensified my efforts to organize and clean up my studio. And therein lies the surprise.

What have we here? Well, it looks like a finished flimsy, doesn't it? I unearthed a project bag that had some of the star rows and some of the lattice rows already put together along with all of the other star and lattice elements pinned together with post-it notes indicating the row number. And I had no recollection of ever starting it, let alone getting it to that stage.

So, to further delay the cleaning/purging process, I decided to go ahead and put it all together. And so I did. Thinking back, I believe that when I realized I was at the end of my Saturated Brights Phase, I had all of these tasty left-overs and decided they'd make a nice little charity quilt. 

In the Evening Hand Work Department, a guild mate asked if there was anyone who would be willing to bind a beautiful quilt she'd made for our LQS's annual drive for quilts for refugees. I do like to bind, so I agreed, and spent time early this week making the binding and machining it on. Last night I began stitching and, y'know, it felt so good! It will keep me busy for the next, well, actually approximately until that next Merricks appears in my inbox.