Today's Project

You're expecting to see one of my works in progress, right?  Wrong! Apparently I don't have enough on my plate.  I've really been missing working on a major machine embroidery project.  I was looking through my design files and selected three of my favorites from the thousands of designs in my library, lol. 

Tonight I started Bloomin' Flowers by The Stitch Connection.  I have worked on the Snowman Collector in regular applique (scroll to middle of page) as well as the redwork machine embroidery version.  I have quite a bit of both styles of their patterns so I decided it was time to "receive some return on my investment" so to speak. 

It took approximately 2.5 hours to prep, stitch and add the borders to the first block.  I am again impressed with the digitizing from this company.  The end result is always beautiful!  This block is not a quick-to-stitch one.  My machine's time clock displayed 46 minutes to stitch.  I found it took me at least 1.5 hours; I stopped counting the time.  This block has 41 color stops, not including the stitch out to get the applique watering can.  I decided not to stitch the watering can design but printed out the pattern full size.  I then traced it on the right side of fabric with fusible web on the back.  That also meant I was able to use a smaller piece of fabric than called for in the directions.

I decided to make my quilt scrappy instead of using one background fabric (both styles are mentioned in the pattern).  Matter of fact, the entire quilt will be scrappy; I just love a quilt with a lot of different fabrics.  Oh, yeah, here is my 1st block.

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