Time is flying by and I Quilted This!

Bonjour and welcome 😊 I wasn't too sure what to share with you today....more of the same, my attempts at making art in my sketchbook, my distractions with scraps? I've done all of it this week, including writing little snippets that I posted on Instagram... I guess I'm all over the place - oh well. let the post begin 😉

Embroidery and such

I've been working at it a few hours each day. It sometimes doesn't show much, but that's the nature of slow-stitching. 

Views Both Far and Near - it'll be ready for next week 😊

My dining room table - only a week left

To get inspired on how to finish the piece, I went into my folders of un-finished and orphan embroidery and blocks. I found this block that I made after a felting demonstration that looked so easy!!! The felting was a flop but I'm happy since I took this block and snipped away at it and added a lovely bit to my embroidery.

Flopped original felted block

Felting now integrated into Views Both Far and Near

I worked on the right side...where the nut was (lost it - will have to find something else 😂 - a reflection of my mind at this time!) Next to the clover embroidery, I stitched the base fabric and added tiny embroidered flowers. The yellow daisies look great on the gray wool. I also added another darker flower using proddy rug hooking. I'll be covering the rest of the monk's cloth in wool and will keep embroidering on it.

Covering the monk's cloth and
embroidering tiny flowers

At the top of the piece, I've added a patch of water. I'm thinking of adding a couple of shells, a fish?. I'll see if I can make it work. 

The top edge of the piece.

As you may have noticed I've added the green fabric strips around all of the piece. It was very fiddly but I think that it'll look OK once it's on the canvas frame. It'll be easy enough to tighten or loosen the piece so that it fits on the canvas. At this point I'm not worrying about it - that will be next week's problem challenge.😊

The monk's cloth showing next to the green fabric will eventually be covered - probably using back-stitched wool or perle cotton. That would be the easiest way of filling in those areas.

Rain and more rain

I'm grateful for the rain that's nourishing the earth. The trees, the bulbs, and all that need it.

Some of the creatures outside may feel like I do...wet, cold and missing the sun 🌞 bright, warm and comforting.

View from the kitchen - RAIN!!!!

OK, I got that out of my system. I thank you for your indulgence. 

What I learned

• I'm so glad that I went to look in my past work for inspiration - it was the perfect thing to do.
• I no longer feel guilty about pulling blocks and such apart if I can use bits of it for another project. 
• It's the final finishing touches that are requiring all of my ingenuity. That translates to a lot of time.
• They're calling for two more days of rain. I really miss the sun but the bulbs in my back garden are coming out - I just hope they'll still be there once the sun is back.
• I'll be dropping off my finished piece for Fibre Fling next Thursday morning. That means you'll see the finished piece in next week's post. If the post is late, you'll know that I spent the night finishing it!😁

Related links

•  A very slow-stitching project and I Quilted This!, April 09, 2026
• Proddy rug hooking, Heather Ritchie's Guide to Making a Proddy Rug

Linking parties

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Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday, 

I Quilted This!

Welcome to the I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it! 

Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and consider grabbing the button. 

Sandra Walker of mmm quilts is hosting another quilt-along. This year it's the beautiful quilt, Lyra. It's not too late to join the fun! Read more about her Lyra quilt and QAL. Sandra stitched-in-the-ditch, did some ruler work, small loop-dee-loops and wavy lines in the spiky star points

Lyra is Sandra's QAL this year

Details of Sandra's quilting of Lyra

Since Gail of Quilting Gail loves to quilt so much, she volunteered to quilt one of her guild's Hospice quilts. She did some ruler work with her Silly Moon rulers and some FMQ. 

Hospice quilt, quilted by Gail

Details of the quilting on the Hospice quilt

Gwyned Trefethen is finally at the quilting stage of her secret mission quilt. After drawing out her FMQ design and then practicing it on a quilt sandwich, the quilting has begun!

Gwyned FMQ her secret mission quilt

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