Red Bird Bee Block # 3

This is my block for Tonie for the Red Bird Bee.

Tonie is making a Jazz Album Cover Quilt for her husband.

Everyone in the Bee had a choice of different album covers to use for inspiration.

So in the end she will have 12 blocks from 12 different album covers.

Bee members were to use an  interpretive or impressionist method of creating a quilt block.

This was a most interesting and challenging block to make as well as a good learning experience and a stretching of my creativity.

Above is my interpretation of one of the album covers, the George Russell Sextet.

(Since I am no musician, I won't go into the musical details.)

(What I know about music won't even fill the point of that needle that is in your hand.)

I really think that Tonie is going to have a great quilt.

I am looking forward to seeing finished.

Enjoy!

Have a super great sewing and stitching day!

Oooops!!

An Oops! is not always a good thing but...

it was just another example of life getting in the way of life.

I have been distracted by some household upgrades, all necessary but none the less an example of life getting in the way of life.

Soooo....

As you know I participated in the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop.

This was a fun blog event and also interesting and inspirational.

A super big thank you goes out to:

Jane's Fabrics and Quilts and Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt

for their good work on this fun and inspiring blog hop.

Sew We Quilt has all the top picks.

Great things to see there.

Designers for this great blog hop were:

Debbie from Busy As Can Be

Cyndi from Stitch, Stitch, Stitch

Madame Samm from Sew We Quilt

The designs were great fun,  Thank you, designers.

The last day of the blog hop was March 29th.

So even though I am so late and have not played any April Fool's pranks, here are the list of blogs for March 29th:

FRIDAY MARCH 29th

Blessings From Our Nest

Liberty Threads

Caribou Crossing Chronicles of Quilts, the Weather and other Fun Stuff

Creatin' in the Sticks

Melinda Quilts Etc

Ga's House

Dachsies with Moxie

Hill Valley Quilter

Quilt n Queen

Madame Samm

Enjoy!

Have a super great sewing and stitching day!

Stitch Me Up Day # 7

Here we are at Day # 7 of the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop that I have been going on about.

There have been many great ideas for projects, lots of well done handwork, and much inspiration shared on this blog hop.  I hope you have seen many of the projects that were made.

Today is no exception - lots of good things to see.

Today's list is:

THURSDAY MARCH 28th

Kristin @That Other Blog

Robin @That Other Blog

Jane's Fabric and Quilts

Dexterdays The World Through Our Window

Sew Nicely 

thistle creek cottage

My Art, My So Called Life

Just Sew Sue

Co mne bavi...

life, quilts and a cat too

TeaTimeCreations

Read, quit, cook, pray

Cate's Linens

Shade Tree Quilting

Ladybug Dreams

Today's top picks can be see at Sew We Quilt.

More can be seen on the Pinterest Page.

All the leaders, cheerleaders, and designers for this blog can be seen on this post.

Enjoy!

Have a super great sewing and stitching day!

Stitch Me Up Day # 6

Today is Day # 6 of the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop.

Lots of great ideas and things to see here.

So without further ado, here are today's places to visit.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 27TH

Judy @That Other Blog (no show)

lauraluvsloons and Quilting too

Sew Sharyn

Sewingly Along

Anita's quilts en handwerken

Quilt Doodle Doodles

Val's Simple Passions

Luv2Sew

Busy As Can Be

Paws for Stitching

 Quilting & Other Craft Therapy

pieceful life

Live Love Labs

Felt pa Asly

Scrapbook-ChickADoodle

Enjoy!

Have a super great sewing and stitching day!

So sorry for my rush today.  Yesterday's post had more of the particulars about the blog hop.

Stitch Me Up Day # 5

Time flies when you are having fun.

It is Day # 5 of the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop.

Thank you goes out to Jane's Fabrics and Quilts and Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt for her good work on this fun and inspiring blog hop.

Sew We Quilt also has today's top picks.

Great things to see there.

Designers for this great blog hop were:

Debbie from Busy As Can Be

Cyndi from Stitch, Stitch, Stitch

Madame Samm from Sew We Quilt

The designs were great fun, thank you designers.

Here are today's featured bloggers:

TUESDAY MARCH 26th

Isabel @That Other Blog

Jeanette @That Other Blog  (no show)

Just Let Me Quilt

MacDonald’s Patch 

Pots Pans Pins and Prayers

GrandMama's Stories

Stitch, Stitch, Stitch

Needled d

Tomorrow's Treasures Today 

Lemur on a Stick

 Life In Every Breath

Zellerwear 

 Bumbleberry Stitches

threads on my socks

Hanging On By A Thread

Fresh Cut Quilts

Yesterday was my day on the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop.

I received many many wonderful, kind, and thoughtful comments.

For that I am very grateful.  You have all made me smile.

Many thanks!!

Enjoy!

Have a super great sewing and stitching day!

Stitch Me Up Day # 4

Today is Day # 4 of the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop.

And........

I get to show everyone the embroidery project that I made for this fun event.

For the details of this blog hop I need to refer you here, here, and here.

Some lovely, hard working ladies have worked diligently to put this blog hop together.

Many works of praise and thanks go out to these ladies.  Thank you for your great work.

If some of my links don't want to work I will fix them ASAP.

These pictures show the design that I chose to embroider and the embroidery itself.

I used embroidery floss that I had in the stash.

Now I am curious as to how I would have liked the pearl cotton that was offered at the start of this great blog hop.  I have read that it was very nice to work with.

For my borders I used a Mary Engelbreit fabric with lovely tea pots from Quilting Treasures.

Unfortunately I cannot find a direct link to this exact fabric.

Then I added a blue binding with a tiny flange of red caught in the seam for attaching the binding.  For this I used Moda Marbles.

This is the back.

Here is the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop list for today.

MONDAY MARCH 25th

Beverly @That Other Blog

Betty@That Other Blog

Stitches to Sprinkles 

 Stitch Duchess' Crazy and Sane Quilting World

Bejeweled Quilts by Barb

Kathy's Quilts

Mountain Delights 

Tea and Quilts    

 Charlottes Creations

Quilt Obsession

The Slow Quilter

Cali Quilter

Little Pieces of My Life

Creating My Comforts

Enjoy!

Have a super great sewing and stitching day!

Stitch Me Up Day # 3

On to Day # 3 of the Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop. 

I have given the great details regarding the talented leaders and designers here and here.

Thank you, ladies, for making this great blog hop possible.

I am going to refer you back to my last two posts to find links to these great ladies.

As you can see by my  tardiness, the day has been full of life getting in the way of life.

The super lovely top picks of the day can be found at Sew We Quilt.

Here is today's list of bloggers.

FRIDAY March 22nd

Keri@That Other Blog

Heather@That Other Blog

The Sewing Club  (no show)

SewMuch 2 Luv

Englating

Kris Loves Fabric

Crazy'boutquilts

Quiltsmiles

Ninis Patchwork Blog 

ArtFriendzy

Batiks by the Bay

Dancing Moon

grymerspalet  (no show)

Love it Sew it
Pig Tales and Quilts

Hmmm - More great ideas for sewing and embroidery.

Enjoy!

Have a super great sewing and stitching day!