Roseville Album centre blocks finished

It has taken a while, but I finally have all 9 centre blocks completed.

The are not stitched together yet so the arrangement may be altered.

I am happy to be back laying with all these gorgeous fabrics!

Now for the 4 corner squares.

Miriam

Roseville Album progress

Since I last posted here I have completed two more blocks.

Here are all the blocks I have completed so far.

I am looking forward to starting the next block.

Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2012 brings good health, joy, peace, prosperity and plenty of stitching time!

Miriam, Yellow Roses.

Third Roseville Album block finished

This has been another fun block to make. Can't wait to start the next one! :)

Here are the 3 blocks I have completed so far.

Thank you very much to everyone who left a comment on my last post.
It is great to be back sewing again!! :)

My second Roseville Album block.

It has been a very long time since I posted my first block.
I have had many weeks of no sewing!

Now I have (almost) recovered from tennis elbow and can sew again I hope to post more blocks much more regularly! :)

My first Roseville Album block finished

I decided to change the vase completely. Thank you for all the suggestions made on my blog. I went with the red fabric, which was the most popular choice. For the reverse applique I used Plink. (Thank you for your suggestion, Kim)

I am in the process of choosing fabrics for my next 2 blocks. I love working with these fabrics!

My progress...

I have been spending some time stitching my block. It is not finished yet, but here is as far as I have got:

I am having second thoughts about my vase. It looks unbalanced to me. I am not sure whether to change the main fabric or just the applique?? (I have some photos of possible choices on my blog)

The stem fabric I am using is a dark, chocolate brown with tiny, mint green spots and from Lecien.
The 2 favourite fabrics I mentioned in my last post are these:

They are both Phillip Jacobs fabrics. I plan to have the bird appear a few times on my quilt.
I am also choosing from lots of Kaffe Fassett, Brandon Mably and  other Phillip Jacobs fabrics as well as some Liberty Marylebone collection fabrics from Glorious Colour.
My background fabric is Kaffe Fassett's Water Spots.

Is anyone else still working on their Roseville Album??  Anyone else about to start??

Happy sewing! :)

I've finally started!

I have started my first block for my Roseville Album quilt.

I started by making yards and yards of 1/4 bias stems and about 50 circles.


I have chosen 2 or 3 favourite fabrics on which to base all my quilt's colours. At the moment I am a bit afraid that when I lift the freezer paper my block will look like an explosion in a paint factory!!! There is lots of colour there! So this block may be version 1.0! lol

I have used reverse applique on the vase and I plan to reverse applique on 2 of the flowers.

I plan to have more to show later in the week.

Happy sewing.

Miriam.  http://www.yellowrosequilts.blogspot.com/