Vintage CQ...Flower #24

We're back in the rainy and cold Northwest, so making some cheery yellow flowers seemed just the thing to do.

I broke my own rule of ''no flower beads'' for this quilt--I do want to emphasis stitching--but I love these vintage yellow Lucite beads so much that I had to include them. Rules need to be broken once in awhile...
The stems are simply twisted 4mm silk ribbon; the fly stitch is Krienik Soie Gobelins (which I love), and the little clumps of flowers and leaves at the base are from some trim I cut up. The calyxes behind the flowers are little silver beads, and the center beads are pressed glass.

So then I had to see how the blocks all look together.....

...so I laid them out on the kitchen table, sharing the space with some of Robert's innumerable squash. You can see it is pretty dark and rainy out there....

How about a better look?

In classic blogger fashion, I stood up on a kitchen chair to take this...so it's not the best photo...but it gives an idea of how things are shaping up.
Only six more blocks to go!

Vintage CQ...Flower # 23

"Oh, Mexico,
It sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low...."
Remember that great song?

Indeed it is sweet here, watching the sunset in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico.....
It's been beautiful.

Still managing to get a little stitching done, though. Here is flower #23.

These are little angelina flowers made into a lilac spray. The leaves are of wool and silk felted onto cotton, with the beads added to the outlining buttonhole stitch.

On another note, we are midway through the second week of the crazy quilt auction on Ebay benefiting the Alliance for American Quilts. Head over, have a look, and bid!

Vintage CQ...Flower #22

Painting lace with Liquitex paint is pretty darn fun.
Easy, too. You can paint it on any fiber, and you don't have to heat set it. I like to make a thin wash, adding water to it, and layer my colors.
So I decided to paint a lace daisy for this week's flower.

Te leaves are of 2mm hand dyed silk ribbon by Vicki Day.

Here's a detail...

I think it is those #20 beads in the center that make this flower. A little fine detail goes a long way!

This is definitely a ''slow cloth'' project, but it is coming along...thanks for hanging with me and making your very kind comments along the way.

I'm on the run...see you next week, hopefully, from the beautiful Sea of Cortez...