Birds and Flowers

I am still avoiding the frog and turtle blocks in the Elephant Parade, but I have made the bird and flower blocks.

Next - the smaller elephants.

Oh, and I have a broken finger. It involved opening a locked door at school. And it hurt but not so much I thought it was broken. X-rays show it is - in the top joint. It is in a split full-time for 5 more weeks and then part-time after that. It's more of a nuisance than anything and it could be a lot worse so I can't complain!

A Pineapple and an Elephant (or five)

I think this pineapple featured in one of those weekly emails from a fabric shop. Pineapples remind me of Hawaii, and I do love Hawaiian holidays.

Anyway, the original free pattern and instructions can be found here at Sassafras Lane Designs. I am yet to quilt and bind my effort.

Now the elephants I saw in a link on Lee's Wednesday WIP @ Freshly Pieced. They come from Lorna @ Sew Fresh Quilts. When I saw the pattern, I thought I really couldn't be bothered with all that cutting - couldn't it just be paper-pieced. I googled paper-pieced elephants and they all had millions more pieces! So I cut just enough for one, to test it out.

I found it went from this to this ...

and then to this ...

... fairly painlessly. So I made 4 more. And when I photograph them, I will make sure the foot on the back leg isn't bent under.

I took the idea for a blue rather than white background from Rachel's photo in the flickr group.

It is a B x B QAL, but I am late to that party and may or may not catch up/keep up. I am also not loving the frog. I don't like them in real life. They give me the creeps.