Blue Work

I've been away from my sewing machine for several weeks now.  While preparing for this trip I contemplated various forms of hand work to take a long.  I'm between hand quilting projects right now and did not have time to bast anything, I'm not a very good at applique so that did not appeal but I do like embroidery.  It is very portable if done one block at a time and I thought if I did blue on white I might make it fit in with the blue and white blocks I'm making for Randy's sow-a-long.

I was visiting Randy right before I left and mentioned my idea and she had several Red Work books to loan me.  I enjoyed looking at them and I chose one by Laurene Sinema to start and trace pictures from.
I have really enjoyed the quiet process of turning these little line drawings into pictures of thread and cloth.  They are really charming and I think they will make a good addition to my blue and white quilt.

I think this one is really funny.  A frog with an umbrella and all the rain appears to be coming from under the umbrella

I am way behind on my blocks for Randy's sow-a-long but I tend to do them in fits and spurts anyway so when I get home I am confident I will make up for lost time.  I have about 45 so far.  Not all are from Randy's, Ive been making some blocks of my on choice too.

I know there are only 36 blocks in this pic it's a little out of date.  I was going to make the quilt all 6" blocks to fill 104" square top with 1" sashing but now I'm thinking maybe I'll make a border cutting down on the number of blocks.  It has really been fun working just blue and white the fabrics are so pretty.  cheers, Claire W.