Fabric Postcard

This is my February Fabric Postcard for Fabric in Altered Arts 2.  The fabric is leftovers from the 9 Patch Pizzaz quilt that I am currently quilting.  I hope to finish the quilting today.  I took a break for the cruise and adopting a rescue dog.  You can read about these events in previous posts.

The embellishment is a piece of costume jewelry that I picked up at the thrift store years ago.  The colors were perfect for the fabrics from the 9 Patch Pizzaz.  The edges are finished with a couched novelty yarn from my stash.  I continue to work on my goals of recycling, repurposing, and using things in my stash.  I had fun revisiting my stash and seeing items from the past in a new light.  Something old can indeed become something new.

The postcard will go in the mail tomorrow to Norma in her new home in Florida.  Hope she likes it.

9 Patch Pizzaz

Here is the project I'm working on today.  The pattern is 9-Patch Pizzaz.  I completed the quilt top while on vacation at our home in Kentucky last fall.  Once the quilt top was completed, I added some appliques of the flowers and leaves cut from the left over fabric.  Yesterday I pin basted the top to the batting and backing and began quilting by stitching in the ditch and diagonally across the squares.  Today, I am free motion quilting around the flowers and leaves.    The more I work on the quilt, the more I like it.  It is bright!  But I'm loving it.  One of my goals is to finish UFOs.  This is one of them.