It's a Quilt!

I received word yesterday that the quilting was complete on my Bizzy Garden.  Of course, I had to rush down to the shop and pick it up.  I spent the remainder of the afternoon and evening, creating and attaching the binding.  It is actually a quilt!!  I am so excited, since it is completely my own creation.  Take a peek:

Bizzy Garden (This is the link for the video....click on the words!)

How could I forget?

Maybe because the weather has been so dark and dreary for the past several days.  I was waiting for a nice day with some sunshine to be able to hang my finished "bizzy garden" (now it's official name) on the fence and take a few pictures.  Beautiful day today with plenty of sunshine, but with quite a bit of wind 'gently' blowing. :)  So the quilt looks puffed out, since the wind would blow every time I would get ready to snap the picture! 
(Again, that shadow that divides the quilt in half is from my roof overhang.  Unless I wait until late in the afternoon, this is what happens.)

Here it is overall, although the top portion is overexposed.  At least you can see the overall effect of the borders.

More wool

In the midst of making my flower block for my little garden, I decided to also make a wool mat for the table.  Lots of circles, but very easy to make using my GoBaby! cutter.  Here's a picture of it all together and ready to be stitched.  It is only glue basted for now...and I notice (of course after the picture) that one of the little stems is crooked.  Not to worry, it will be straightened out during the stitching.

(The two black circles at the top are magnets to hold it onto my refrigerator, which has lately become my place of choice for pictures).

My 'bizzy garden' is all together!  Woohoo!  Big Hapy Dance time!   I will try and get a few pictures once the sun comes out around here today. :))

Two more

I have been stitching away on my last three blocks for my garden quilt.  I got ambitious and cut the outer borders and squares I want to use within those borders.  Gosh, it won't be long until this one is actually finished.  What garden would be complete without a few flowers?  Granted, these are not your every day sort of flower.

Of course, with all the bees buzzing about and a cute little hive to live in, what do you get?  Honey!

A little more applique for the borders, and everything can go together!

Another one done

I have all my blocks ready for the entire quilt for my 'bizzy garden.'  I do have to finish all the applique for two of them.  Once that is done, I can put all the rows together and add a few more little extras I have in mind.  This block is a very simple one...two little clay pots with tiny seedlings just startng to peek out with a little bit of patchwork for the border.

~ Buzzin' along! ~

This is one of the blocks I had in mind from the beginning when I first started sketching this one.  More little 'critters' on this one.  They sure are bzzzzy! ;) 

Now that I have thought about it, maybe I should add a little, tiny crown on my other bee.  Her size alone would designate her as the 'queen bee.' 

(Oh, and the top of the hive is not attached yet.  I realized when I was taking the picture, that it needed something...more.  The semicircle of felt is placed there for now.  At least it is better than a loose thread!)

Gone a little buggy!

I guess those who know me would probably say...'that's nothing new!'....But this is a different kind.  I have been working along on my little primittive 'bizzy garden'...and these little guys were not originally a part of the plan.  How could I resist?  I particularly love this little guy and am pretty pleased with how he has come along (albeit at a very s l o w pace). ;))

This is the block where he belongs:

And then these little guys thought there must be a picnic going on....

a quick look at the rest of their block.

(Yes...it is definitely a conspiracy..that black thread was not there when I was getting this ready!) :))

Be on the lookout for a few more little 'critters!'

** For "Blu"....being lazy, I did not check to see how many legs an ant had...so just went with the flow...:) **   Thanks for checking them out...and  I really do appreciate your great comments. **

A Flower

I have been continuing to work on my wool felt project.  Wool felt is so easy to applique...not as much prep work as in other types of applique.  Not that I don't like those as well.  These blocks seem to be coming together very quickly.  Here's the newest addition...a golden flower, a few more stars and a heart. :)

(and why is it that I never notice those stray threads until after the pictures are taken?)

Sunshine!

Certainly not here today...pretty gloomy outside, as a matter of fact...one of those dreary, drizzly days....hmmm...little bit of alliteration there.:)

Continuing along with my primitive garden theme...a sun, of course!  Now this is not your typical, bright, happy yellow sun.  This one is, in fact, quite different.  And, if you look at it closely...you can also see the moon!

(yep..that is a magnet in the corner....helping to hold it onto my refrigerator, while I tried to take a picture!)

This sun will preside over the remaining blocks in the upper left corner...with my 'bizzy bee' just below.

Been 'bzzzzy'

:))  that's  right, 'bzzzy.'   A new project (again!)..this time using the fabrics from Primitive Gatherings called Little Gatherings...lots of neutrals, blacks and golden tones.  I had sketched out an idea I had quite a while ago.  At the time, I thought I was going to use bright, spring-like colors.  Once I saw the fabrics from Little Gatherings...my mind changed completely.  I decided to give it a shot, and made one of the first blocks ....a bee....a little chubby bee, with heart-shaped wings that are separate from the background.  I intend to use all felt for all the applique.

Love the fabrics ....so this one is definitely going to have a very 'primitive' feel

overall.

Thanks for stopping by....'bee' back soon!