July's Digitizing

This month we had to take the sunset picture and digitize it. This was not the most fun project for me. I could work on it forever moving lines around but decided to stop here. I could have moved the lavender lines over more or made them lighter. Most of it is done with just simple straight lines and trying not to cross over them in the areas that are seen. My problem was clicking too many times making the palm fronds too thick. I elemenated alot of lines and thinned them out and it looks much better and not so congested.

Two More Civil War Block Done

I just finished blocks 6 and 7 of the Civil War Quilt. Just think 13 more blocks to go and the border. Block 6 is a lot of leaves. I had to go out and buy more civil war green fabric. I think it turned out pretty good. It took awhile to finish but I had other things going on also.

Finally for block 7, there aren't so many leaves, thankgoodness and I had a chance to do something different. These two little birds were a challenge though. The beaks were the real challenge. After several tries, I figured out how to do them. I sewed the dark fabric onto the yellow fabric using the pattern shape and then cut the seam allowances out and sewed the beak to the background fabric. On top of that I sewed the bird on. But before I could sew the bird on I had to make the wings separate and then sew them on the bird fabric. Then I could sew the whole bird on the background fabric and matching up where the beak is. That sounds complicated but it worked. Also, there is a head dress or feathers on each bird. I wish I had used a darker embroidery thread but it's OK.