April & May BOMs

Hi Everyone....Well, it's been a long couple of months as you all know with Craig's illness and then passing. Anyway, I've had too much time on my hands in the evenings and I'm trying to stay busy so I've been able to catch up on my blocks of the months. Here are my Tisket-A-Tasket basket blocks.

Here is the April basket.

Here is the May basket. It was just available yesterday from Bunny Hill Designs. But since my evenings are completely free now, I was able to whip this one out quickly. I really liked this one and I used a decorative stitch on "Bernie" to do the butterfly antenna (so no hand sewing on this block...YAY !)

And then, there is the Home Is Where the Heart is blocks. I'm just loving these. Each one just gets cuter and cuter. We didn't get to meet with the 3rd amigo, Yvette, in April to do our block so Joy and I worked on them during the week. We missed her and will be getting together this Friday to do the May block. If you can believe it, this block contains over 50 pieces to stitch around, which includes the umbrellas on the band portion.....YIKES!!!

When making the boy bunny, the pattern called for the carrot to be under his arm. However, you couldn't see it very well. So, I took "Quilter's Choice" privileges and put the carrot in his hand. Joy liked the idea too and did the same thing. Sew cute !!!

From start to finish, I just loved the girl bunny. She is just adorable, until I did the hand embroidery on her face. Oh well, I'm not about to take it all out. I think she still looks ok. Now, that I have so much time on my hands I'll need to learn hand embroidery techniques. Maybe take a redwork class or two at Cozy Cottage to learn how to hand embroider. It's not too expensive and it's only one night a week.

Well, this is all for now. Hope you all enjoyed seeing these new blocks.

Love to all my family and friends

Karene