Get Away Auction Item

I will be going to camp next week and will be taking an item to be auctioned off on Saturday night. I made a sewing bag that has sewing stuff embroidered on the front with a little butterfly in the center trying to land on a needle. The butterfly was put there to coordinate with the inside lining which has butterflies.
The bag has two zippers which open to reveal pleaces to put sewing notions. Also I put a plastic pocket on the inside with a zipper so more stuff can be stored and seen. The bag also has another area with a pocket where rulers or larger items can be stored. This bag would be great to organize and carry all the sewing stuff to class and could always be ready to go. Hope someone likes it well enough to bid high on it.

September Digitizing Lesson

I finished the September lesson for digitzing an applique. I had a problem with getting the satin stitches the same size. The center part of the wings are to be a little smaller than the outside edge. Also when putting in points on the 4D software program I was putting them to close together. Finally spread them out some and they embroider much better.

Block 10 of Civil War Bride

I have finally finished block 10 of the Civil War Bride. It took awhile since I was busy with other projects and taking care of the house, dogs, Julie, Jerry and me. The tops of the strawberries were a little tedious with the points. I wish now I had cut them to have 3 points instead of 4. It would have been much easier but they are done.

More on the Civil War Bride

Blocks eight and nine are done. They've been done for a few weeks but just now got around to posting them. The peacock took a little time with all those feathers. In fact the feathers were sewn together first and then attached to the bird and background fabric.
I wrote and article about this quilt for my quilt group, Cactus Patchers. Here is the link: Cactus Patchers.com.

August Digitizing

For August we were given a picture of a swan and had to digitize it and then embroider it out. I didn't do too badly. The only thing I can't figure out is the black outline around the swan. Even though it looked like the black was right on the outside of the swan, it stitched out a little from it. I tried changing the digitizing and it still did the same. I noticed others who turned in their design had the same problem. If I do this design again, I'll overlap the feathers a little more and see if that helps.