Lovely story, Okay I woun´t encourage you

Candace, that is hilarious - good job for DH!! I would have liked to be a mouse in the corner watching the antics...LOL

Yuck mice...I am an animal lover but mice/rats, roaches and lizards are never welcome in my house...yuck...when we lived on Maui, my husband caught three mice in our condo on summer:shock: I still have nightmares about that :cry:

On a much more pleasant note, I just purchased a 10x12'' light box from JoAnns, regular price was $43, my 40% coupon took $20 off...I am a happy camper.Oh, and the light box is "Made in the USA" :thumbup: I also purchased some gold metallic DMC thread for the embroidery..I am going to give the bobbin work a try and see what I can do with that. I have two blocks done minus the embroidery and then two are cut and ready to be turned under and stitched..it seems to me that if I decided to use bobbin work it will be easier on some blocks to do it before the applique, so I am going to check into that before I proceed.

Thanks all for starting this, I would never have had the courage to start something like that on my own..mainly because I am a finisher and don't like UFOs and this is a time consuming and hard project, but watching you all is very encouraging.

Candi, they are beautiful blocks, naked or not!

I had no idea JoAnn's sold light boxes, but that's pretty good!

Oh, Candi, your blocks are wonderful!

Candi, your blocks look soo pretty!! I, of course, love your colors..looks to me like you are making a quilt that will need to come visit me at MY house!

Elle, how shocking....you??? encouraging someone to be wicked????...... naughty girl!! LOL!

Beautiful Blocks, would love to see them once you have done the bobbin work on them. you do nice work.

Thanks all for the kind words..why is that when I look at photos of my blocks all I see are the points that were supposed to look more rounded but ended up pointy, lol. I think I need a glass of wine to set me straight :mrgreen: :lol:

Yes candi...thats the solution!! (although I certainly don't see what you see!)

Would you like me to point out the Booboos to you? LOL.
Pat, I think I am going through my learning curve with this. I am using a method that the lady who taught it to me called needleturn applique by machine, I trace and cut heat resistant templates, use them to trace and cut my fabrics leaving a seam allowance and then strach the seam allowance and with the templates inside iron the edges under, remove template and stitch on background. My problems are the clipping I need to make in the seam allowance to get certain shapes, if I clip in the wrong spot, it changes the shape, and then sometimes roundness like of the heart grows points from the
seam allowance caused by my misclippings. I think if and once I figure out where to take that tiny clip, it'll be smooth sailing for me...maybe on that very last block,lol :mrgreen: Meanwhile, like my husabnd says, it does look like a heart so I suppose it is good enough :-D