Getting close

Well I have started to applique my fan to the background fabric. It comming along pretty slow , seems like it has taken forever to get it to this point. I hope to be able to start embellishing it by this weekend.

A busy day

Well I had a busy day yesterday , however I was able to get the fans sewed together . I also had to drive to Leesville after work to get my books for this upcoming semester. I hope to be able to get this sewed to the background fabric today . I changed out a few of the fabrics as they just weren't working out , I really like it much better this way. I also have the second one to pick fabric's for and to stitch up , I hope to have that done by this weekend. I will make the bases of all the fans out of a neat wrinkled cream fabric that I have ( I hope that I have enough of it !! ) and they will be set on black fabric.

Fabric's picked out

Well yesterday I didn't get quite as far as I wanted with my fans. It took forever to hunt through all of my fabric's to find what I thought would be suitable . Then when I laid them all out together it was way to pastel looking so off to Goodwill I went. I was able to find a few silk shirts (yesterday was thier 50 cent sale ) I have decided that I will do 2 blocks for each month , that will give me a total of 24 by the end of the year . If I add sashing it will make a nice sized CQ , now I'm crossing my fingers that I will be able to go through with it and it won't land by the wayside as I would really like to give it to my oldest daughter Cheyenne. Stay tuned for some pic's after I get home tonight y'all

Take It Futher Challenge

Over on Sharron B's blog there is a new challenge , it's called the Take It Futher Challenge and it is a spin off of her TAST series that she ran last year. On the first of each month she will post 2 options the first option will be a pallet of colours and the second option will be a theme. You can use any medium to work with . I think this may be fun . I didn't officaly sign up for the challenge because I'm afraid that with school and all I may not be able to keep up with everyone else. But I'm going to try to give it a shot , I really like the colours and the theme for this month .

And the theme is neat too , the theme is someone you admire/look up to. I had thought at first that I wanted to do a beaded journal page for this challenge using the theme but I really don't think that I will have the time because classes start on the 12th of this month . I think that I will use the colours and get back to work on my fan quilt. I think that if I try to apply the pallet to what I'm doing I will have a better chance of somewhat keeping up with the challenge. Well I'm off to go pull fabric for my fan block. I am gonna tag all the posts relating to this challenge with TIFC so be sure to keep an eye on my side bar.

Here is the addy to get more info about this challenge :)

http://sharonb.wordpress.com/take-it-further-challenge/

Hugs Y'all