Design Wall Monday April 18

I don't actually have anything on my wall today. But I do have pictures of the quilts that were delivered at the baby shower on Saturday. We had a great time at the shower. There were 26 family and friends there to celebrate with Laurie. Laurie's mom and grandmother did up sandwiches and punch and the usual shower games. Becca and I did up some chocolate candies and the cake, which turned out wonderfully, considering neither Becca, nor I had ever worked with fondant and cake decorating before.


 She received so many wonderful gifts. There was so much love for that baby in the room. And, of course, I have a couple of pictures of the quilts. They are doing a tropical decorating idea for his room, reflecting back to their wedding in Hawaii. So I did up a wall hanging for them. The fish and palm tree patterns came from Fat Cat Patterns One of the things that they saw when they were in Hawaii were a lot of kite surfers, and they asked if there was a way to pit one of them into the quilt. I found a public domain picture, and turned it into a silhouette of the person, and a colourful parachute.


And then there is a picture of Laurie and Becca holding up one of the other quilts. She looks like that baby could come any day now, even though her due date is over a month away. Something tells me he isn't gong to wait that long. So very, very exciting!!!!

                                                                                       

Today's progress.......

In addition to the 2 blocks for the 100 block challenge, I managed to finish almost everything on my list from yesterday, except for the machine work on the fusible appliques, and the prepping of the applique shapes for the My Tweets, but those I can do before I go to work tomorrow. But, I have a good excuse. Hy dear husband came home with the "Pillars of the Earth" series. So, we've been watching it for most of the evening. And, while watching it, I've actually finished the binding on the Nine Patch Pineapple quilt, to give me my first full finish of the year. And then, I've got one side of the Card Trick stitched down. Woohoo!! I promised pictures of the three wall hangings, and the fishies.  There isn't a lot of quilting detail to show on the wall hangings, since they were very simply quilted around the shapes of the applique, and in the ditch arounf the borders. But, they sure are cute. I'll put up a pic of the finished Pineapple NIne Patch tomorrow.

Here a fish, there a fish.......

I've started the tropical fish wall hanging for our grandson's bedroom. I don't really know just yet how I am going to put it all together. It is going to have the blue fabric as the "water" background, and a bunch of different fish. Past that point, I'm not sure. I have all kinds of fun, bright colours to use for the fish, and I'll just have to wait and see where it takes me. But one thing is sure: it is going to be fun.