Work! Fun work but still...work

It's been such a crazy month!  June is going to officially end tonight and I'm still trying to figure out where March went....go figure.  Sadly, I have no personal projects to report on- just work samples.  Though, I have to say, I really like the stuff I've been working on for them.  These cuties are my first ever pieces in hand applique!  Readers will likely recognize the pattern for these little month blocks- they come from Art to Heart's Count On It book.  Each employee in the store took responsibility for one or two blocks as a sample.  We'll be selling the kits beginning this week, the week the craziness begins in Central Oregon- the quilt show.  Dun dun duuunnn...  I found I enjoyed the hand work involved in applique, though to be honest, these particular panels are not my style.  I do think, however, that I will start working on an applique project of my own design soon.

The other project taking all of my time in the last couple of weeks has been a panel, "Flurry" by Kate Spain, that the store owner wanted me to put borders on and call it good.  And I just couldn't.  I'm sorry but I am one of those people who thinks panels aren't really quilting.  Putting borders around a panel does not a quilt make.  At the very least, cut it up!  Do something somewhat original with it!  I was pretty basic in my changes to the panel she gave me- mainly due to limited time.  This too needed to be ready for quilt show week and having spent 10 days in Nebraska during the middle of the month, I flat ran out of time to be super creative.

The careful reader will notice some little glints here and there on the quilt...  Yes, I gave in to my crystal addiction and embellished it here and there.  Have I not described my crystal addiction?  Oh...another post then- wouldn't want to scare you away now.