Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Busy Busy

Here are my squares for Nettie of A Quilt is Nice. I started reading her blog and oohing and ahhing over her sewing projects prior to this virtual quilting bee, so it is fun to submit blocks for one of her creations.

I am finding that my quilting style is becoming more and more improvisational. It has been so fun to be create a piece of artwork piece by piece, or to come up with an idea in my head and then try it out.

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I really loved all of the fabrics that were sent, but was drawn to the large printed birds and green. The birds became the focal point of both my blocks. The center piece of this block was my starting point.

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I love the sea horses.

In non-sewing news, the weather has been nice and sunny and warm this past week and I have been getting outside on some runs. A coworker of mine gave me a free entry into the St. Patrick's Day 5K around Lake Harriet on Saturday. It felt like running amongst a heard of cattle, but was very fun. I have been going back and forth in terms of the rest of the racing season. With work being so busy, it has been nice to just train how I want to train and not worry about a specific training plan. Who knows, maybe I'll be inspired to start a training plan as the weather warms. After three years of running injuries, it is so exciting to be running as much as I want. I am so thankful!


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cut blocks, what fun fabric.

Unknown said...

love those orange blocks! Especially the bird one. :)