SQUEEZING AN ORANGE

I have been hand stitching my b i g orange dresden semi-circle
in the evenings  and whenever my hands allow....
As you can see, I've come to the white surrounding arc parts....

                                I love how this big stitching pulls in the fabrics to really
                                                  crinkle them up a lot!!  
                               there is really nothing like hand quilting to my mind...

                                       I am linking to Kathys quilts [click]
                                            to join in with the other slow stitchers
                                              this Sunday as I will be doing
                                                   just that during the afternoon 
                                                         Red Sox pre-season game...

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (slow stitching-euse)

SANTA.......ANGEL?

         Angel..........................................& S A N T A 

This:

  







Does 



not 


go with:↡↡↡↡     

                                                                     This......;0000!!!!

My color choices just didn't make it.....way too dark for my liking....

But I got some good buttonhole stitch applique practice....and reversing templates,
as a few of these needed to be reversed-- (ask me, go ahead, how I found that out!!)

And I learned that  I am not overly fond of having to keep on changing
threads and bobbins....;000

So,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 I think I will put some borders on Santa and then back it with Angel.......
And call it a practice run.....
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On the Orange Front:

   I hand stitched the whole center during the Red Sox game (they won-- yay)
 and 
today, I will while away the afternoon finishing the blades...I just love Dresden
Plates...
this one is Improv, free form and "almost" a circle ;))) such fun...
I think I will be making an Improv Dresden in each color for RSC--if my
scraps allow--I may even have to make a tiny one...;)))

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I hope your Sunday is as pretty a day as ours is--sun shining--a bit nippy;
 but the wind is dying down so .............
not at all bad out there....

hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (rooting-for-the-home-team-euse)