Needlework Tuesday - Canada Day Stitching

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians both on home soil and abroad.  I hope you are sporting your red and white and having a wonderful day.  Today I am sharing a mixed bag needlework.  Sort of like Canada, we aren't homogenous from shore to shore, but rather a  huge assortment of cultures living together in peace to make up a magnificent country.

I am back at work on my Red Heart Crochet Along.  Block 7 is Back Loop & Front Loop stitch.  I really like the way this turned out.  It is a more smooth surface and would be wonderful in  fabric like application.

Block 8 is Front Post Double Crochet around Single Crochet.  This looks sort of like ribbing, but it is quite firm, no real stretch across the width.

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I had fun playing with my scraps of 1930s fabrics and made nine postcards.  I did add buttons on the ones in the bottom row.  They will need to go in an envelope to go in the mail, but I think the buttons look great.

It's been ages since I started a new quilt, and I just had an itch last night.  I had cut the pieces for this one early last year and had it sitting in baggies waiting.   The pattern is called "Fabric Fusion" by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle and is found in the February 2012 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting.  The finished block measures 7 x 8 1/2 inches.  I don't generally use floral fabrics, but had quite a collection of fq's.  I pulled them all out and cut and cut till I had enough pieces for three different quilts.  this is the first one that I am working on.  I need 72 of these blocks.  The photo below shows 16 of the blocks together.

 

It's amazing how much I can accomplish when all the cutting is already done.  Honestly, I started this late yesterday afternoon and already have 17 blocks finished and many more in various stages.

I'll keep this short today, as it's a holiday and I want to get back to spending time with my family.  Have a terrific day.  Mister Linky is waiting below for a link to your recent needlework post or a link to your post showing your version of the "Fabric Fusion" quilt.