Shame on me!

Instead of removing the stitching that I don't like on my Christmas quilt yesterday, I worked on this... only thing done before was the background & border; finished it today - all except the quilting and binding.

I read in one of the groups I belong to on Facebook that someone's father told her that whatever you do on New Year's Day, that's what you'll be doing for the rest of the year.  Doing dishes was a given, so I did some... but I just didn't feel like sitting there ripping out stitches for an hour or so, so I decided I'd do something else that would, hopefully, be quick and pretty easy.

This could have been even easier, but I wanted to give it more of a 3-D effect and so all the full flowers (except one) are loosely attached by stitching on the green pieces in the center of each flower ( stamen/pistol - don't expect me to remember elementary school science) and a couple are tacked down a little bit along the edge to hide a stem that isn't there, etc.

I really like this and the way it came out.. I got more excited with each finished step.

So, no excuses now... I HAVE to rip those stitches out so that I can back to the fun part of quilting MY Christmas quilt.  This won't be the first time that I didn't get it done by Christmas; probably won't be the last either.

Oh wait!  I still have one more block that I need to do... for our guild prez, but it's not due til July, so it can wait a few more days.  I need to either find a cut of black cotton the size I need or I'm going to have to bite the bullet and cut into some yardage which is what I'm afraid I'll have to do and why I haven't started the block yet.  Good enough excuse?  Works for me <smile>

TTYL