Two finishes for Friday, a tiny bit of paint!

 

I know it's paint party Friday but I've been sewing instead of painting again this week... except for the tiny wooden word here at the bottom.... I'll let my assistant show you how I painted it...

I collect fun embellishments, or did before the pandemic, and had these little wooden words on hand but they were too plain, so... gold metallic paint to the rescue!

another little embellishment, placed just so along the top. 

If you remember I made tiny leaf blocks with leftover half square triangles a few weeks ago, and turned them into two quilts for fall. 

This one looks art deco to me and is now hanging in the living room. So pretty with golden yellows , and metallic gold fabrics and threads. 

It's small but I sure love it, and might like it framed....

I wanted you to notice the rows of pretty gold and amber beads on the sides

click on photo to enlarge it for details

I love this black binding with gold threads shot through too!

I always add beads last, by hand, and it was fast enough to finish during my conversation with Joy!

Back to the other leaf piece, notice the leaf blocks are the same but set differently in each quilt

My assistants were making suggestions for quilting it... I loved the colors they chose! I always like to see the back of a quilt, don't you??

I pieced all the flying geese units to paper, and placed them around my set blocks as a border, but it was challenging to piece them into a border... measuring and math were involved...

you can just see all the seam lines from making them all fit while keeping the border fabric scene going on behind them!!

look at the appliqued kitty!

After I pieced the whole top, I decided the corners along the bottom needed some applique, so I fussy cut some kittens and pumpkins, and a frog and appliqued them to blend the bottom border with the gold border. I love them!

So, two finishes last weekend, and they are already up on display in the house! This one is on the credenza in the family room near Home and Thankful to feel like Fall and Thanksgiving for a couple more weeks, til Christmas season starts!

I had a good time making the tiny leaf blocks and designing the two very different quilts was a great exercise as well as fun! 

BTW I might not have made them but for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and yellow month. If you run across a challenge, I say take it! You never know where it will lead! 

Tomorrow I'll show the RSC project for the week... neutrals... the lozenge blocks plus with the tiny Half Square Triangle blocks

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