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.

. . .running in circles. . .

OK, I am having waay too much fun with my GoBaby! fabric cutter from Accuquilt.  I needed the die with the circles for some flowers in my little garden project.  I stopped at Bears Paw Fabrics on Friday and picked one up, along with some more colors of beautiful wool felt.  I was almost out of black, so I bought a little (a yard!) of that, too.  I worked on getting a few little flowers ready for one of my garden blocks.  It was ready in no time at all with the GoBaby! (not affiliated, just really like it so far).

The instructions say that you can cut up to 6 layers of cotton fabric at once.  For the wool felt I found that 3 layers is best.  For years now, I have been wanting to make a penny rug...you know one of those mats with tons of circles made out of wool felt?  Well,  with a little bit of cutting, about an hour's worth, here's what I had:

Doesn't look like much at this point, does it?  But after playing around with my circles for a few minutes, here's what I have now:

Looks a lot better...but now comes the blanket stitching to make all my circles into a pretty wool mat!
(I did take this picture mainly so I would have something to refer to in the event all my rows get disturbed....not mentioning any names...(Klawd).....)

~ 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.