Embroidered blocks

I am working on embroidering blocks for a quilt. I have one done so far, and will be starting another one. I picked up the quilt pattern at a quilt shop that is called Country Holiday by Bronwyn Hayes.

The quilt pattern 

This will be fun quilt to make.

New Quilt technique I want to try

The more I see pictures of a Crazy Quilt  the more I want to try it.  I am starting to collect fabric, ribbons, buttons and other kinds of embellishments.  Here is a block showing some of the things you can do:

Special quilt for my husband.

My husband was working on cars starting at the age of 14 and loved it. He has always had two passions; one was drag racing and second, was restoring older model cars.  I watched him over the years restore cars. I was always amazed at how he can strip down a car and a motor and put them back together.  So what better than to make him a quilt featuring cars. I have blocks that have older model cars printed on them that I am embroidering and I printed onto fabric a couple of pictures of him in either his drag racing cars or his son's car.  I have two blocks done with the hand embroidering and have 7 more to do.

The first picture are the printed embroidery blocks and the others on the picture are pictures that I printed on fabric.

The picture below is one of the blocks that I have hand embroidered. The embroidering will take me a little bit then I will start on figuring out how I am going to lay out the quilt.

Quilt for a new family member

When I found out that I would be welcoming a new family member, a great niece I decided to make a quilt.  Once they found out that they were having a little girl and my niece let me know what the color scheme was for the baby's room, I got started on a quilt for her. Here is Emma and her quilt.

Another quilt top done.......

Saying "another quilt top done" sounds good but the problem with that is just that, it is ANOTHER QUILT TOP DONE. I have 4 quilt tops now that are waiting to be finished, and another quilt to be made along with other projects I want to do.  I will not start another quilt, even though it is for my husband who want it done because it has to do with old cars.  But he will just have to wait.  I want to get the 4 tops done because a couple of them are for charities.  So with that said here is the one I just finished. I wanted to find a way to use up some of the scraps that I had.

Another project that I am going to do that will use up some of the scraps is a rag rug. It is made up of pieces of fabric scraps.

Decision made ........

After working with the circle squares, I have to decided to only half the squares because of the size of each square.  If I quarter them then they would be to small so with that said this is how I am laying them out on my design wall.

Circle Quilt

My next project is a circle quilt.  The pictures will explain but I have to decide if I want to just make a simple circle quilt or to make some adjustments to the circles.

This is what I am currently doing, sewing the circles onto the squares:

The following is the two designs I am looking at:

Not sure which way I will use until I get all the circles sewn onto the blocks, and get them up on my design wall.  Feel free to comment on your thoughts.  I am always open to suggestions, oh and by the way those two designs are not my fabrics.