A Couple of Finishes

I just finished this quilt from the Scrap Bee players over at 15 minutes play. It started out as a basic string quilt...

  But I had a stack of petal shape scraps from this quilt sitting around.

Looking at the quilt, I realized there were stems scattered about, just waiting for their blooms!

They had to get a little stitching, just for fun.

It wasn't going to have a border, but this Hawaiian print shouted, "use me!"  And the polka dots wanted to be on the back.  Kind of a "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" quilt story. 

Meanwhile, I'd been hand quilting this Our Lady of Guadelupe quilt for the last few months.  I had machine quilted it earlier, but I didn't like the way it looked, and took it all out.

I had fun deciding what design to quilt in each different space.

I also used up a bunch of colors of spare embroidery floss.  I find 3 strands of floss look about the same as #8 perle cotton.