Marvelous Monday

I was looking forward to this Monday, and I can honestly say, I wasn't let down.  It was the first day of the Embroidery, Embellish, Create Class.  It hadn't been released when I was first ready to start, so I did this weeks Mystery Monday clue.

The cutting of the new squares and the sewing to form the blocks didn't take long at all.  However, the trimming of the blocks after seemed to take forever, no doubt made to feel worse as the lesson for the class was now online.

However, I persevered, and after a couple of hours I had a few block like this

 due to the fact that I had run out of the apple fabric.  There is a big pile of these,

 and these.  Now they can all go to the side until next Monday.

 Now the real fun of the day could begin.  I read all the info on the blog, printed the pdf's and watched the video and was ready to start.  There were two tasks for this section, and I did the second first, as you do!

 I took the linens that I have had safe in my drawer, you know that set of drawers Karen that you admired so much?  Two of the little drawers are now empty.  I took a deep breath, and started cutting with the scissors.

Karen made this bit look so easy, but I lost count of the number of variations I had for this one blocks.  Nearly two hours later, I finally settled on this.

Now it's all tacked and ready for the embroidery and my fingers are itching to start.  First though, I need to go back to task one, rouleau loops and prairie points!  That's what I am going to be doing today.