Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all had (or are still having) an enjoyable long weekend. Canada Day was Friday, so our celebrations happened then. Hope my quilting friends in the United States have a wonderful day today.
I’m excited to share with you Jacquelynne Steves FREE Block of the Month, Maggie’s First Dance. The appliqué layout version is shown below; however, you can choose to do fusible machine appliqué or embroidery for your blocks.
July is block 2 of this BOM. Here’s my embroidered version:
I used one less print, in favour of using more of the colourful dots fabric. The fabrics I’ve pulled for this project are shown below. I need a table runner for a gift later this year, so I’m thinking these pretty blocks will be perfect to use for that.
I’ve also finished the embroidery for the first block. It was a first time trying hand embroidery, and I really love the process. There’s nothing better than sitting outside on the porch stitching the summer evenings away.
Milo loves our outside office:
Yes, I made my first embroidery Oops when stitching block 2 last week. Oh well, it was quick to unstitch and redo.
Give-Away
To help celebrate Maggie’s First Dance BOM, I’ve giving away four copies of my Starlight Templates and Table Runner pattern.
To enter the give-away, just leave a comment below telling me how you spent your weekend. I’ll randomly choose four winners on Friday, July 8th. Winners will be notified via email.
Also, don’t forget to sign up for Maggie’s First Dance BOM to receive the two designs already released and get the future ones when they become available.
Went to Oregon for my niece’s wedding came home yesterday ahead of the traffic. Now today just catching up on emails and then off to do a little quilting and gardening later today! Happy 4th!
What a cute block!! Thank you. I work nights at a police department. My weekend is attempting to sleep during the day while the neighborhood is shooting off fireworks. Not much sewing time.
Love your block! Spent the weekend relaxing at home, working on several quilting projects!
I have spent the weekend sewing as it has rained all weekend. Don’t tell anyone but I am very happy it has been rainy :)
Cleaning my flower beds and taking a dip in the pool every few hours when I got scorching hot!
I spent my rainy weekend finishing up Block 1 of Maggie’s First Dance and playing with our newly adopted Australian Shepard. I love the BOM and looking at everyone’s version of the Block 1. I am so excited about doing this quilt. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
Love your version of Maggie’s Dance Block 2.
Your Starlight pattern is so pretty! That’s a generous giveaway! Thanks for a chance to win!
I spent the weekend helping a neighbor move furniture, then helping her eat the tasty spread she provided. Yum! Tonight…fireworks!
Happy 4th!
Spent the weekend watering plants in my garden and relaxing inside with my sewing. I had to chuckle when I saw your fabric folded under and stitched into the back, I have done that too many times when I do hand applique. Your blocks look wonderful. Thanks for the draw.
I went to my sister’s for dinner and enjoyed seeing my nephew who was home from college.
HI and happy 4th of July. I have spent the weekend resting and sewing and sorting. Had to take my sewing machine in for some work and need to set up a backup. So using some of the time sorting projects and straightening up the sewing room.
Have a good Day everyone.
I’m trying to get over a bad cold, supposed to go back to work tomorrow, missed 2 weeks. Got 2 charity quilts quilted for my guild and a bit of sewing.
Went to the family farm up in the mountains of Highland Co Virginia , did a little sewing and alot of relaxing
I spent my weekend at home relaxing! My husband was on call for work so we just hung out! Lots of reading and some sewing!
Saturday I sewed,yesterday I went to a flea market and helped weed in my sister’s garden. Today I watched a boat parade and will be grilling tonight for family. A very lovely weekend!
Just tried to stay cool and catch up on reading.
A little quilting, cleaning, yard work, and cooking. Staying cool and trying to catch up.
Sew delighted to see your offering pop up on Maggie’s First Dance BOM! Embroidery has been part of my life on and off for over #0 years! Sometimes it is fun to revisit old friends in handwork and relive the memories they bring. (Spent the weekend relaxing and doing a bit of sewing on Splendid Sampler. Next is to start cutting out Maggie’s quilt.)
Had a traditional 4th of July lunch…hamburgers and the works with the family. Getting ready to do some quilting.
Your block is very pretty and you did a great job on the embroidery. This weekend I spent 2 days washing windows so today we are having a barbecue and relaxing.
I spent my weeekend sewing up a quilt top that I’ve been working on for over a year !! I was so happy to have it finished !
cooked out, had family over, the usual. I like the embroidery on the block. I did the same thing on an embroidery project for my son last weekend. Had to rip out a lot of stitches.
I love your block! I don’t often hand embroider but I will be making this quilt and doing all the embroidery blocks. My weekend was scattered all over the place: Doctors appointments, one day at a convention, one day just chilling out, laying out fabrics and planning my next quilt project using A4A-1.
I recovered a ring bearer pillow with my daughter’s wedding colors, grilled ribs (yumm) and tonight will be fireworks! sjvonfumetti at yahoo dot com
Nicely done! Our day was a ‘family gathering’. My evening will be spent quietly quilting and recalling the fun we shared while stitching.
So glad your “oops” was caught early enough to undo! Very lovely stitching!
We spent our holiday weekend quietly at home, enjoying the great weather. We did some yard work, grilled out a few times and watched the neighbor kids shoot off some fireworks.
Hello. I’m an Aussie downunder girl so no 4th of July holiday here. However my hubby and I did celebrate the day with friends we had not seen for a long time, as the 4th of July was the date my hubby retired from Defence in 2008 – very appropriate being Independence Day!! Am loving the 2016 BOM from Jacquelynne and have chosen the embroidery option as that is my passion. Smiled when I saw your photo as I have made that boo-boo occasionally!!! Thank you for the opportunity to win such a lovely gift.
I spent most of the weekend trying to finish up a couple of my WIP’s. Caught up on one, finished another. Went to bed last night after the noise of the fireworks over the lake finished up. Peaceful & quiet when I finally crawled into bed.
I spent the weekend: painting my master bathroom, downloading and printing quilt patterns, catching up on email, taking a nap.
I spent a lazy weekend at home. School finished on Thursday (for students) and I had lots to do to wrap up one year and prepare for the next.
High point was driving into Toronto to see my cousin’s play at the Frinnge festival.
Love embroidery! This Canada weekend, I first watched our local Canada Day parade, then went to the cottage with my son & his family – little biking, boating & in the water. Sunday, after everyone went home, I had a few hours to myself to appliqué. I also love stars on quilts!
Taking care of my Mom this weekend & listening to the neighborhood fireworks
Spent the weekend with my 6 year old grand daughter…she spent the week with me for the first time!
I spent the weekend celebrating my birthday!
I spent my week end looking through my stash for fabrics to start a new quilt. Great fun, planning a new beginning.
Happy July 4th! I spent the weekend with my son and his family and celebrated my grandson’s birthday. Wonderful weekend! Thank you for the chance to win.
We are visiting my mom for the holiday, eating too much and cooling off in the pool. I got a little chuckle out of your embroidery opps. I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago when I was free motion quilting my first quilt. I thought I was doing great until I ran out of bobbin thread and then saw that I had flipped the border under the quilting for about 24″! ?
We are visiting my mom for the holiday, eating too much and cooling off in the pool. I got a little chuckle out of your embroidery oops. I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago when I was free motion quilting my first quilt. I thought I was doing great until I ran out of bobbin thread and then saw that I had flipped the border under the quilting for about 24″! ?
Saturday I fixed the oops in block of MAGGIE’S FIRST DANCE, then I finished a block for my granddaughter’s elephant quilt and cut out the next four blocks for same quilt. Sunday was church and grocery shopping and today was r & r. I love the colors in your blocks I started to do hand stitching but hubby persuaded me to change to applique.
I spent all day Saturday getting things together for our annual garage sale. I also had alot of yard work to do. I thought that I would get everything done on Saturday & Sunday & would spend my 4th of July sewing on my Maggie’s First Dance block 1. Low & behold our electricity went out at 2:30am & it just came back on. Oh Well I still get to go watch fireworks. I hope everyone had a happy 4th of July & stopped and remember why we celebrate. :)
Worked in my sewing room all week-end and today. No sewing but cleaning out and sorting fabric stash.Not a hoarder yet but really really close.Working on my addiction.
It has been a slow weekend, just spending time with my family. If I had a nickel for every time I caught the edge of the fabric while doing needlework, I could have a party! Thanks for offering a chance to win.
We were in Canada until July 1. We sold our cottage that we have had for 34 years—-sad, sad. We will miss our summers at the lake. We arrived home after three travel days.
My weekend was spent walking or at the gym every morning, to come home and create lunch with delicious veggies from our garden. Afternoons have been spent sewing (blocks for a new quilt), reading and relaxing.
Working on my first machine applique block with fusible web. It was easier than I thought it would be!.Also doing a little landscape redesign ( or trying to!). My all time favorite type of block is any pieced star…really like the starlight templates digital pattern.
We grilled steaks and corn on the BBQ and had baked potatos. Plan on watching the fireworks later tonight. We can see them from our backyard and always spectacular.
I took my 91 yr. old mom out “junking” today!! We had a good time. We ate breakfast, lunch and dinner out. Went to lots of thrift/junk stores. Was a good time for just her and I to be together for the day. We got home about dark, now watching the fireworks!! Happy 4th
Spent the weekend enjoying 2 kids and their spouses and 3 of 5 grandkids. The pontoon got a real workout as did the grill and the wine cooler! Nothing could be better than the lake cabin, touring the lake on the pontoon, and sipping wine while watching the grandkids swim. Wish we could have more holiday weekends!
We had a quiet weekend here–I sewed and cooked, and my partner spent some time out on his bike. Went to a minor league baseball game on Saturday and had a great time.
Spent the weekend working. I did get some knitting done but no quilting.
Played in my sewing room & rested. Made some red, white blue blocks for a guild challenge. Spent some time hand quilting big stitch, almost finished piecing a backroom my Halloween quilt & sewed 20 Lego blocks from 1.5 inch strips ala Tonya. A good weekend & ended with a low country shrimp boil. I love the stars.