Serious Happy Dance!

At the Knowledge and Needles open house in 2010 a good friend of mine, Marie-Paule had this gorgeous quilt she had done where the center of each quilt block was a stitched quilt block.  It was in gorgeous reds, blues and greens.  I had to have it!

Roughly over the last year (probably slightly less) I've been plugging away at these blocks and I begged my good stitchy friends to help me out!  Between myself and my friends we have managed to get 48 quilt blocks stitched!  Thank you Stitchy Friends!!!

Vibrant Patchwork

by Mary Hicmott

Mary Hickmott's New Stitches no. 194

Tonight I finished up the last two blocks, after I finally found a skien of 3816.  Michael's didn't have any then I remembered the other day that one of the local quilt shops carried DMC.  Oh boy, I thought Michaels charged us too much?  Imagine $0.96/skien!  Ouch! I needed it, and wanted to get these blocks done!  Out of the 48 blocks, I stitched 12 of them.

I now have all my deadline stitching done for next weekend!  My next finish will be the JBW Bear I started a month or two ago.  Once that is out of the way, I have ornaments to get stitched for the girls at work for Christmas.  Once again, Enchantment of Winter will continue to wait.