Originally Posted by
Barb in Louisiana
You are very welcome. I echo all your comments about the blocks. I can't jump in until next year. Maybe you & I should start a new thread for 2015. (You will be ahead instead of behind. haha! I'll just be starting.) That will give everyone who didn't start this time a heads up that there will be another chance to do these wonderful blocks. I'm thinking about embroidering the name of each state on the block as I do them. This would make all of them directional which is something I am having to think about. I don't know if I want to add that to the mix of putting them together.
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I am so inspired by all of the ladies work this year, I am trying to clear lots of stuff off my UFO list to be able to start this!
Barb if you do a layout plan on your blocks before you embroider them, I bet you could work it in....plus wouldnt it be neat to "hide" the name inside a piece, somewhere on each one?? Just my .02. I am working on a quilt that has lots of embroidery in it and I am so enjoying this little bit of hand work again. I have a Moda tin bucket that I take with me to work every day and during my breaks and lunch hour, I get a few stitches in nearly every day. Embroidery was my first craft, at age 7, but I havent done much of it since I started quilting!