Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to the weekly linkup and celebrate of the art of hand stitching! We are a group of international stitchers who understand that the process of creation is just as important as the end product. We prefer to take our time and enjoy the health benefits of meditative, slow hand stitching. We hope you will enjoy seeing the projects we are working on, and pick up a needle and thread and join us.
My ongoing project is called Life Is Beautiful, a pattern by Helen Stubbings. These are the three kinds of blocks I am hand stitching every week... I like variety! I have one in the hoop to embroider, one of the embroidery blocks being appliqued to a 4 patch background, and the cut away fabric behind the embroidery circle being appliqued onto another 4 patch block.
And here are the first 25 blocks on the design wall. 

I think there are 63 blocks in the finished quilt, so after more than a year of working on this project I am not even at the half way point in block construction. That's okay because I am enjoying every stitch!
Once these are all done, the next step is to hand quilt each block, and then I will join them together in the Quilt-As-You-Go style.

SuperMoms

In Canada we are celebrating Mother's Day today, so Happy Mother's Day to all the fabulous moms out there in our slow stitching community. 

Quilt label

I feel very thankful to come from a long line of wonderful mothers who had the capacity and insight to provide so much unconditional love and guidance to the next generation.


What are you hand stitching today? Link up your blog post below and share your project with us.
Sorry everyone... I am unable to figure out what the problem is with the linkup. After working on it for a long time today, I am no farther ahead in narrowing down how to make it work. Stay tuned to see if I am smart enough to figure it out and/or have enough patience to keep at it!