Isn’t this gorgeous? Once I laid eyes on it, I couldn’t get it out of my head!
The colors are vibrant and beautiful. I knew I had to make it. And in THOSE exact colors! Simply Stunning.
I had to wait a few months for the class to start at my LQS. I had never participated in anything like this before. While our instructor was giving us the lowdown, the practical side of me was coming to the realization that I would not be making this in those beautiful clear vibrant colors. After all, those are not the colors in my home. Where would I put it? How would I display it? What would the end use be? I wasn’t going to invest the time and just put it away in a closet or drawer somewhere. I decided I would make a bedspread for our King bed with this project, so that helped me decide on the earthy colors. Our homework the first month was to embroider 4 of one block and 16 of another. The king size requires the largest size square and each one has 4 hours of embroidery!! That’s 80 hours for the month and doesn’t include the time to remove the hoop from the machine and trim the applique. Hence, I’m a bit behind in my EmbroidaBlock of the Month! Here’s what I have so far.
I do love it, but need to take breaks from it to work on other things. Enjoying the process.
I love the machine embroidery on each of your blocks . Each single block is embroidered and then you see blocks together to make the quilt? Or do you have additional batting and then a back material? I’m trying to understand the process of constructing the quilt finished without a bunch of seams showing on backside. I only have a sewing machine, no long arm machine.
Catherine, thank you for your compliment! The Hoop Sister’s digitized embroidery is excellent! I love it so much! This project is currently in my UFO stack, but you can check out Hoop Sisters Sewn Seeds videos to help you out. Yes, the blocks are embroidered with 3 layers, then trimmed, but I can’t remember how it all comes together to make a quilt. I think the blocks are attached on the embroidery machine as well. Sorry I don’t remember much more. Good luck!