A few new Tumbling Blocks

The Sacred Snake is satin stitched with size 12 double twist variegated cotton thread and outlined with thick silver passing thread thread for a little sparkle

Lily of the valley is picked out with 3 strands of dmc cotton thread 

7mm and 4mm silk ribbon leaves and glass beads

Spring and fall sheaves are picked out with 

7mm silk ribbon leftovers from other projects

Spring Branches are picked out with 3 strands of dmc cotton thread, 

4mm silk ribbon for the branches, silver passing thread for the web 

and glass beads for the dragonfly and spider

The Tumbling Blocks stitch-a-long is still on Sharon Boggins Blog if you want to partake or just go look

Rainbow scrap challenge goes on!

This months color is green,

And here are my blocks

6" 9 patch star

And the 4" square in square

 

CQ Tumbling Blocks

I am so behind on this project

Oh well, 

I'm only a year and 5 moths late in starting!

This is my latest block so far

It needs more cowbell

Here's the first block I completed

with SRE daisies 

and a good starburst seam treatment

The Tumbling Blocks stitch-a-long is still on Sharon Boggins Blog 

if you want to partake or just go look

And a cloudy moon for the full moon that just passed

I think This is going to be an ongoing difficulty with this project.

I want to do it, but other things keep getting in the way

I have 20 or so dark blocks made and a few ideas beside the 3 I've done so far.

I may even revisit some older Ideas but no theme has yet revealed itself to me 

And if I ramdomize myself too much I may not finish the project at all.

One 6"ish block a month is enough right? I don't have to finish right now, EVEN THOUGH

I started it late. I keep telling myself that, in between the times I wonder why I haven't finished yet.

Now that the studio is, mostly, finished and moved into I can start finishing projects that have been on hold for forever.

I just finished Quilt about 9 of the 14 flimsies I found in random piles some I put aside because they were too big for the space I had and some that got lost in the constant shuffle.

I also picked up 10 charity quilts for the guild I belong to, we have such a backlog of quilts that need quilting 

and as I was nominated and voted in as secretary, I feel honor bound to get as much done there as I can.

I also have my own projects here and there that I want to do, It's hard to keep myself tethered.

Flights of fancy are all well and good, but there is a limit to what one can accomplish on your own. 

As my DDH tells me all this pressure is self inflicted......