Finished up the July Nine Patch cross stitch pattern. Finished as a pillow and added to my dough bowl that sits on my dining room table. These little projects usually only take 2-3 hours to complete. Hoping to have the entire year done by 2025, so I can use them each month in my monthly displays. I stitched on 25 count Laguna using called for DMC floss. 

Happy Stitching!

Edited: I wanted to update this post and include the finished project framed. I hung this in my laundry room which is still being renovated so you can’t really tell it’s in the laundry room. This was a fun piece to finish having only 1 color to deal with. I can see myself doing more projects like this one.

Someone on social media posted a completed piece called Washday Again! and I fell in love with it and knew that I had to stitch this piece myself. It is done in one color throughout. I immediately found the pattern online and downloaded. The pattern calls for completing using a red, blue or green DMC floss. I chose to do mine in a red, but it is a different version than what the pattern called for.

Mine is all stitched using DMC 321 on 25 count Lugana fabric, stitched over 2 stitches using 2 pieces of floss. It was a rather easy project as long as you can keep up with where you are. I started on the far left and completed a little section at a time from top to bottom. I'd say it took about a month and half working mostly in the evenings to complete.

Happy Stitching!

Today I am showing you the Scarecrow Head block that I finished. As I stated in previous entries in this series, I was going to go page by page and complete in order, which would have made part 4 the Tiny Leaf Blocks that consisted of 30 different 3 1/2” blocks. Well I made a big boo-boo when assembling them and need to redo all 30, but before I can do that I have to do the rest of the blocks to make sure I have enough fabric to remake the 30 blocks I have to redo. When I buy quilt kits from Fat Quarter Shop they usually contain a lot of extra fabric so I am hopeful I will have enough and not have to buy more.

In the meantime, I am moving on to the next step, which is the Scarecrow Head. The eyes are loosely attached for photos and will be removed for quilting and then reattached. 

The next batch of leaves is called, Autumn Leaf Block and are 5 1/2” square. I was able to complete all 13 leaves in one afternoon/evening. I love the way this quilt is coming together and look forward to what it will look like when finished.

I was able to move on to step 2 rather quickly and get my pieces cut and put together for the next set of leaves. This bunch of leaves are 6 1/2” square and I had to make 9 of them. I didn't measure any of them to confirm they are actually 6 1/2" square as my blocks rarely measure what the designers block say they should be. I just keep rolling with it because at the end of the day I am the boss of my own quilt and I could care less if its perfect or not....I just want to finish the quilt and be happy with the results. What others think doesn't concern me.

These leaves were called, Twirling Leaf blocks.