Gobble Gobble

 I am heading down to the States tomorrow for American Thanksgiving.

I made this tea towel for my boyfriend's Mom as she always seems to have a themed tea towel hanging on their stove. I embroidered the turkey onto a linen-cotton blend and then machine sewed the linen piece to a tea towel.  

Hexies!

At the September meeting of the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild, we learned how to make hexagons and diamonds using a technique called "English Paper Piecing". I have admired hexagons on other blogs for quite some time now but was intimidated by what I thought would be too finicky of a technique for me. However, they are actually quite simple to make.

I made this wall piece for my parents room. It is very simple but cute. Plus, it matches their quilt :) 

Embroidery is a hoot!

I taught myself how to do embroidery over the long weekend at my cottage. I am really obsessed with owls.

Next time, I will probably do a better job of drawing on the image so that it is easy to follow. I didn't have a proper fabric pencil so I wasn't able to see the lines I wanted to follow so I just eyeballed it. It's not perfect but I don't mind the wonky look.