After cutting my fabrics I stitched one block together to make sure I'd cut all the pieces correctly and to see what it looked like before I take it to retreat. It's so cute! The block measures 16 1/2 inches I believe.
I'm sewing the scraps of the flying geese together as I go to make half square triangles and I'll be sewing them together as a leader ender project. The smallest pinwheel block measures 3 inches and the other is 7 inches. I'll end up with 32 pinwheels of each size. I don't know what I'll do with them yet but I make a lot of memory quilts for still born babies so I expect they'll be used wisely.
I'm busy drawing all my diagonal lines on the fabric squares so that when I go to retreat I can just sew, sew, sew!
My next project is a secret gift for my firstborn son's girlfriend. I have an idea in mind but I'm not terribly artistic so who knows how it'll go. Erin is a dancer and I want to make her a picture from one of her dance poses.
I went to PBNify.com and turned Erin's picture into a paint by numbers picture. You can click on as many or as few points in your photograph to get the look you're after. I wanted it to be fairly simple because I want to embroider the details over the top of the painting. I won't be painting the background. I'm not an artist either so fingers crossed it goes well!
Here's the picture with the numbers. It's very faint but I think you'd see it clearer if you click on the pic.
I then went to goart.fotor.com to turn my photo into artwork. I chose the Favism option because it had lots of clear lines that I'll be able to embroider.
Now I've got to work out how to put the two together. I hope it works out as well as it does inside my head!
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