Nature Update/February UFO Challenge

 

About the only things nature-related that
I've done since the first of the year...

...chase some winter Texas butterflies around the yard...

 

 

 

{The butterfly in picture #2 is smaller than a dime!!

As yet, I've not remembered to take a Butterfly book

out of the library (I've only gone a half dozen times, now),

so they are yet to be identified.}

 

...wonder what kinds of trees these are...

 

 





 

...and rake leaves.

 

But, I've gotten in some good sewing time

 

and baking time

 

to help Crafty Daughter get ready for a baby shower today.

 

 

It's time for Carrie's Nothing but UFOs February Challenge.

 

The first of my three entries will be to finish these fingerless mitts

 

that I've been lugging around with me since fall.

By the time I get them sewn together, winter will be over!

 

My second UFO is a combination stitchery/quilting project

that I started during the summer. 

I had made a Dresden Plate quilt with quotes encircling the plates. 

Because I live in an Acadian French community.

it was suggested that I do them again IN FRENCH!

 

This is as far as I ever got!

I had found some linen napkins at the Goodwill store

and thought they'd be a good backing.

I just need to finish embroidering one more word

and I can start on the plate.

I'd love to return with at least one completed!

 

Here is the picture of the quilt that started it all.

 

And lastly, when an ad for Fons and Porter magazine

came in the mail,

I fell in love with one of the quilts pictured

called Flowers for Hannah.

This UFO will have to be completed in steps,

as I'd never finish it by the end of the month

with all of my other little projects.

 

All of the applique has been completed,
the quarter square triangles constructed.

 

 

By the end of February, I would like to at least have

the blocks all sewn together.

There are 9 cornflowers, 4 daisies, and 12 QSTs.

I was determined to only use fabric contained in my meager TX stash,

so it won't be as pretty as pictured in the Fons and Porter magazine.

 

I guess now

I had better get to work!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Be sure to visit A Passion for Applique to see other entries

for this challenge.

Thanks, Carrie!!