Slow Sunday Stitching Round We Go

Thought I'd share another Round We Go block that was added to the basket of finished blocks over coffee this morning

It's not laying completely flat, but hopefully that's just tension in the paper pieces, and will solve itself once the block has been appliqued to the background fabrics and the papers have been removed.

I pulled out all the blocks and laid them out over the floor, just to see how the project is coming along (sorry about the light)

20 blocks have come together, and even if I'm not all happy with some of them, it looks like they are playing together nicely.

Discovered I haven't shared the block I finished last Sunday - so here's a close-up

I haven't quite decided what to do for the background, but thinking I will do scrappy, either use more of the blues in the basket or some neutrals I have collected over the years. ...we'll see ;-)

Linking up with Kathy's Quilts and Slow Sunday Stitching

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Round We Go Again

 

I'm not really happy with the contrast in this block, but I'm not doing it again. Hopefully it will blend well with the other blocks. 

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One More Round We Go

I was really in doubt about how this block would turn out, but I'm super happy with it :-)
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Round We Go The Weekend

Friday night was this month's Friday Night Sew In, and I prepared for an evening of stitching with a bit of a cheese overload (sooo good *lol*) and a glass of white wine, enjoying my newly finished red snowflake table topper

Earlier in the day I had been to the post office to pick up the newest addition to my library of quilt books

so I have to admit a lot of my sewing time was spent flipping through the pages and drooling over the colorful photos

However I did get one more Round We Go block put together

My basket of blocks is really starting to fill up - however it doesn't look like I have made a dent in my basket of blues - mostly I have been using up small scraps so far

Today is Sunday and time for some more slow stitching - have one more block on the go that I've been stitching on over coffee this morning:

Pop over to these fun blogs to see what blogland is up to this weekend:

Friday Night Sew In over at Wendy's place

Slow Sunday Stitching over at Kathy's Quilts

Oh Scrap! over at Cynthia's place Quilting is more fun than housework

Thanks for hosting the social blogland sew-togethers, ladies!
Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Another Round We Go

Still having heaps of fun with these Round We Go blocks. Rather than making four of each block pictured on the outside of the seed packets I have been playing with the design ideas from the booklet and some of my own puzzle ideas:

So two more blocks have come together

as well as I finished the two blocks I played with on Sunday

More blocks are on the way :-)

Linking up with Sew Fresh Quils - Let's Bee Social - looking forward to browsing what's going on with everyone beeing social!

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Round We Go Slow Sunday Stitching

It's Sunday and time to link up with Kathy and everyone enjoying some hand work on a quiet day. My focus for today is my Round We Go blocks. Two blocks I hope to finish today:

Pop on over to the link up at Kathy's Quilts to see what everyone is up to

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Some Sunday Stitching

Woohoo, yesterday two more seed packets for Round We Go popped into my mail box, and of corse I had to get to them right away. One block finished over coffee this morning - seven more to go. Guess there's no secret I'm having heaps of fun with these ;-)

I did make a dent in the quilting on my Plan C yesterday, and hopefully I can manage to finish quilting it today.

It's not too densely quilted, so I'm hoping it will be very soft, but at the same time get that nice quilted texture

Linking up with Kathy's Quilts and Slow Sunday Stitching

...and Oh Scrap over at Cynthia's Quilting is more fun than housework

 Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Round We Go Again

Today I have three more Round We Go blocks to share. Not sure how happy I am with these three blocks. The contrast isn't too god between the blues used in them, and they look kind of washed out... 

This is how nine of the blocks I have made so far look together.

Perhaps they won't look too bad once everything come together...? 

Linking up with Kathy and Slow Sunday Stitching.

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Round We Go Two More Blocks

I'm really enjoying putting together these round blocks. The pieces are quite small, but they are coming together quickly and accurately

These two blocks were quite simple, put together with the bigger pieces in the packs. The "ring" around the center hexagons have been constructed differently, but they came out looking the same ;.)

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Round We Go Twice More

Two more blocks of the Round We Go BOM has come together. These are two similar blocks, it's just the fabrics that are different.

Thinking I should make one more where the twister in the center and the outside circle is dark, and the star points are light...

Linking up with Let's Bee Social over at Lorna's place SewFreshQuilts :-)

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Round We Go Another Block

Having heaps of fun playing with these little epp blocks. And old treasures from my fabrics scraps looks like they're getting a new life

Linking up with Let's Bee Social over at SewFreshQuilts and Needle and Thread Thursday over at My quilt Infatuation

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Some Sunday Stitching

My spinner blocks are spread out all over the living room floor, but my mojo for this Sunday isn't sewing together those long rows of half square hexagons... perhaps later tonight...

This morning I have been playing with a sample piece for some FMQ I put together while I had my machine set up yesterday - just practicing some wavy lines

What to do with this quilted square? My coffee table has all kinds of little knick-knacks spread out, so I decided to pull out needle and thread...

 ...and turn it into a thread/all-kinds-of-stuff catcher

Dug through my bag of buttons and found this - not sure how old that is, but from the price tag I would guess mid 80s (?)

Another Round We Go block has joined it's friends - having heaps of fun stitching these blocks.

Not really keeping with the program and making four of the same from each seed pack (though I will make more of the same patterns)

Linking up with Slow Sunday Stitching over at Kathy's Quilts and join the celebration of the 5th anniversary for this fun world wide stitching bee. Thanks for keeping it up, Kathy!

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Like I Needed Another Project

What to do when temptation knocks on your door? You answer, and invite it in...? At least that's what I did when I discovered Round We Go BOM program by Sue Daley. I really have no need for another project, but this one I just couldn't resist.
 

It's all (almost) English paper piecing and some appliqué. The epp blocks are round, and then appliquéd to a background. Going to attempt tidying up in some of my blue and teal fabrics for this one. Going through the drawer pulling out fabric I found pieces from the late 1990s - this can be an interesting project ;-)

Two blocs have come together and more are in the making

Linking up with Kathy and Slow Sunday Stitching - this will be a slow stitching project for the next year or so. Looking forward to seeing what eveyone is stitching on this fine Sunday.

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida