mmegaera | some small projects

In lieu of working on another enormous project this soon after the Yule Log Cabin fiasco (and while I'm working on the book, which is an enormous project of another type), I've been working on some smaller ones.

Here they are:

First, three bookmarks. The flower ones are from a book of state flower bookmarks. I just changed the wording from the state name to the flower name (and took some liberties with the lupine, as that image is supposed to be a Texas bluebonnet -- but we call that sort of flower by its real (scientific) name up here). The other one is from a Joan Elliott book of Native American cross-stitch patterns that I got from the library.

And here's a couple of hand-quilted pillows:

The first one is for my mother for Christmas.

Front and back.

The second one is going to the Job Carr Cabin Museum for its annual auction next spring. The cabin on the fabric looks remarkably like the real cabin, which I thought was cool, and the beige fabric not only has a pine needle design in the fabric, but I quilted it with a pine needle design.

Front and back. I used the same stencil for the blue side of the first pillow and the leaf side of the second one.

I need more big quilting stencils, which I will do something about one of these days...