Celtic Block Home

Thank you to Rebecca, Wendy, Cathy and Faye for working on my Celtic block.  My inspiration in piecing it was Mont St. Michel in France.  I have space to add more things, since Faye had a personal problem and was unable to add more to the block.  Thank you all for the work.

This is a picture of the block before embroidery.

Janet's Jewels on Black DYB

I believe I am currently in six crazy quilting round robins.  This is one of the newer ones, Jewels on Black.  Janet made her blocks all black with only differences in texture.  This is the one I chose to work on.

This is the block after I finished it.  It's quite a bit brighter.  For some reason, it called to me to make it polychromatic and with lots of silk ribbon.  Hopefully, she'll like it.

Mystery Revealed

Yay!  I finished something!  The German Group Mystery by Kelly Searles is complete.  Only one of many stitchalongs in the Sticklounge group that I've been working on, but at least it's complete.  I really like the colors I chose, too.

Yet Another Sticklounge Start

This piece is called Riesenmustertuch, which translates into Giant Sampler.  It's 600 stitches square.  Huge.  And it's a three year project with Sticklounge.  Anyway, here's my start... I'm using HDF Dragon Opal on 32 count Sandcastle linen from Zweigart.  Wish me luck.  Oh, and I'm doing it in tent stitch over one.

Prado Purchases

 A couple of weeks ago we went to the annual Prado exhibition.  It's the Uruguayan version of a stock show or 4-H Fair.  I'll have pictures of it to put up when they're given me.  In the meantime here are some pictures of my purchases.  Most are from the Indonesian pavilion. 

These books are handmade and covered in dried leaves.  Don't they look neat?

 This fan was also bought there.

The two trays are going to be lacquered and then used as change trays.  The lizard was a choice of Andreas'.  I  vetoed the gaudy dragons of the same basic design but larger.  They were painted up and down in green, purple, yellow and red.

Black, I Say, Black!

The theme for this time was black, and as you can see, I made a bit of progress on the dragon/salamander's body.  I'm almost done with the first of two and a half pages.

Closing on the Center

I'm working on the second side still.  It's almost to the center being done now.