1. These are half of the trees for the quilt that will be called Bill Goes to Paris. The designer of "The Avenue" is someone from Jen Kingwell's stable and I just love the idea. It's not hard to do, and the pattern I purchased came with templates. I will say that the part where the trees' trunks are inserted isn't efficient at all, but it's not exactly
odious, and I can't think of a better way to do it.
Those twelve trees will go in the handwork pile in the room where we watch television and I'll work on those funky trunk insertions over the weekend the next couple of evenings.
I've cut all of the pieces for the remaining dozen trees and also for the background fabric borders. I still have to cut the pieces for the narrow, colored border.
2. Pick A Petal's binding is machined on and two sides of it are hand-stitched down.
3. Merricks Nth has emerged -- possibly only briefly -- from time out, and at last all of the Wiggly Worms elements are pieced (handwork from the past week's television viewing). There are still a couple of sections for this project loitering in time out. One, I believe, is hopeless, and I'm considering a couple of possibilities for replacements for it.
The patterns arrive by email in pdf form on the first of each month. Until now. I don't know why the May 1 pattern hasn't come yet, not that I'm in any way ready to print, cut, and sew. I guess if it doesn't come in another day or two, I'll have to write to them. "Be careful what you wish for."
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