Secret Sister and Christmas Cracker Gifts

I received such a fantastic assortment of items from my Secret Sister at WWCQ and from the Christmas Crackers on CQI. Thanks so much ladies!

Christmas Tree Skirt

Over at WWCQ, we are going to have a year long RR with wedges for a Christmas Tree Skirt. These are big wedges; 24" in length and 18.5" at the largest width. So, as you can imagine, each of the wedges will probably take a bit longer to embellish than your average RR block.

Here are the wedges that I made:

I pieced these using the same technique as I did for the purple blocks that I posted about, Martha Green's method. I really do find that this is a great way to make a dent in my cotton fabric scrap bin; these wedges are entirely out of scrap fabric! What's really funny about the process is that I made so many units, that I probably have enough for two more tree skirts...lol!

Stitching on Gerry's Retreat Block

Late September, I attended a crazy quilting retreat with some ladies from CQI. One of the things that we did leading up to the retreat was a round robin with fabric selected by the challenge leader. Boy was this fabric a challenge!

Gerry's block showed up to the retreat a little bare, so some of us volunteered to take it home and give it some more stitching.  Here is what the block looks like now.

I added the fan at the bottom and did some stitching on a couple of the seams. I also added the spray of ribbon flowers at the top...which, now that I look at it, it looks like there really should be one more. I did send Sharon one extra, but it didn't have leaves. =( I also did some stitching on the center, adding pizzazz to the motif that was printed on the challenge fabric.

I hope she likes it!