ATHENE & SNOWBALLS

                         WOW--this Athene amaryllis is:
                                             Pure white with yellow and dark green interior ..

                                            Much longer stemmed than my Red Surprise one

                                                               
And here is the second stem on Red Surprise:

                            Looking like F I V E  M O R E  flowers to come...;}}}}}}
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On the quilting front..................

Here is a view of my latest trial block....

When I spied these on  Monday Making at Love, Laugh Quilt and
                                        I   totally.
                                                         absolutely,
                                                                               fell in love with these

                                                        AMISH SNOWBALLS...

                     (I MOVED TO:SQUIRREL "CITY",
                                    DROPPED  EVERYTHING AND
                                                       HAD TO MAKE THIS ONE.)
Know what I mean...???

I have a load of solids ............................
(don't ask me why I even bought them as I've NEVER used them
in any project...--well, need I say more about buying fabrics??
I THOUGHT NOT lol)

And I thought--well, this is definitely a good way to finally try out solids...

                 [Every time I look at my block, I search for a print...hahaha]

Here is the 2nd block set up...they are really fun to make...and non-stressful....

I am using my Accuquilt 3.5" die to cut the squares...so that makes it easy on my
shoulders and arms and hands...and my triangle die for the flippy corners....

I do have to iron the heck out of the fabrics since they've been folded for
SO    L O N G 
and are very creased ....
so am trying hard 
to let THE IRON  do the work and not 
pressing down so hard that I
 strain myself...
trying is the operative word here...;0000
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On the Pomegranate front...
I am only allowing myself to hand quilt on Sundays now...so it is:

S L O W S U N D A Y  stitching with Kathy.....

Hugs, on
Another gray, rainy, raw day here....
 Julierose, La Blageuse (throwing snowballs-euse)

HOOP--LA

I received my little  7" hoop yesterday--as I continue to work on Mom's Poms....

WHAT WAS I THINKING--a gazillion Pomegranates...????

AND.......................................

Even more!!!!!!

My big stitching is coming along on Mom's Poms..but I'll say this, batik is hard to needle through.........

Come on over to KATHY'S QUILTS

to see what slow stitchers are up to today...

Hugs, 

Julierose, La Blageuse

A WINNER!

Karen Kay Buckley's Perfect Circles arrived last night; they are fantastic--I just love how
they work.  (The one on the far right lower level is the one I did WITHOUT using the
circle...you can see the difference!!  BIG TIME!!) 

                       With a med-hot, DRY iron and a little running stitch--V O I LA!! 

I got both sets: the littlest ones AND

 these bigger ones as my Poms needed a large circle as a background.....

Many of you asked me to report how I found  they worked...

         "THEY'RE... WONDERFUL, MAH-VELOUS, THEY SURE WORK FOR ME......"
                                      (filed under Songs for all occasions LOL) 

I made 6 of them in about 1/2 hour....it's so nice when something works as 
advertised.  

Hugs
Julierose, La Blageuse (rondeuse)