Kristina's Blog

As with most weekends, we didn't get much sleep last night. But, since Sunday is winding to a close, we know a good night's sleep is headed our way. We did get to church this morning, that makes twice in the last three weeks. Services are always great, and it is disapointing when we don't get there.

As I mentioned in the last post, I have 4 of the 15 embroidered squares done, and below is a picture of them. The top two have hummingbirds, the bottom two have dragonflies.

Here they are closer to show some of the detail.

Technically this is upside down, the flower should be on the bottom of the square. I will need to be careful when orienting the squares for their strips in the quilt top.

The same goes for this square also.

You notice that the two hummingbird squares are mirror images of each other. There will be a third square in this set. You see there are 5- 8" white squares in each pink/green strip. Starting with the top row, I plan to have 3 of the white squares embroidered, so every other one. The row after that will have 2 embroidered squares out of the 5 white squares. So, above the two un-embroidered white squares, there will be two embroidered white squares. Overall, this makes the embroidery in a checkerboard fashion.

~see diagram below~

I am trying to stay consistent color-wise. I'm using mostly pastel pink, green, blue, and purple. There are two shades of pink, and two shades of purple. There are three exceptions; the darker green for the hummingbird, the yellow for the hummingbird, and the deep rose for the hummingbird. The stickler in me could not make a hummingbird that wasn't at least close to the right colors. :)

I am working these three colors into other squares though, to make things flow together. You can see the dark green used in the dragonflies' wings, and another square I am still working on, a small cluster of roses, is being done in the deep rose color that I used for the hummingbird's throat. Below is a diagram of the quilt top. The Curvey 'E' signifies an embroidered square.

Each material set has a name. The squares are color-coded, but remember that while the colored squares are solid on the diagram, in actuality, they are each a set of 2 coordinating fabrics. For example, in the Feb. 28th post, I showed you strips of the quilt top, and up-close photos to show the colors of the material. The strips I showed you are the strips (thinking horizontally) with the purple and blue squares.
As I was trying to explain earlier in this post, the embroidered white squares are every-other square in every-other row. You can see the checkerboard effect I was talking about.
In case you can't tell, I'm enjoying my quilt project!
I will post more picture of the embroidered squares as I get them done.

~Kristina