New Blocks

I've begun making blocks as part of an online BOM QAYG - all 3 of which are new to me!  It's Pile O' Fabric's Block of the Month Skillbuilder, and we use Flickr to show progress, which is also new to me!  I'm very excited about this class!  A member of my new guild showed blocks she had made as part of this class, and Christa on her blog also started it, so I had to check it out. 

Choosing fabric took forever as usual.  Lately I've been trying to use from my own stash and I've only had to buy 2 fat quarters so far to supplement my colors.  Of course I needed to buy the background fabric.  Just finished piecing the 2 blocks from January - got some catching up to do - and they aren't quilted yet.

I've been looking at my hanging gardens quilt, and have decided it needs more quilting.  It's such a pain to maneuver it on the machine that I stopped and figured that was enough, but I can see large places where the fabric hangs, and I know I need to make it right.  Bugsy wanted to be in the picture too!




A quilting friend is coming over today.  We do handwork and talk together, and I'm looking for something to do by hand - maybe more beadwork on the Christmas tree that I started last  year.