Still no cigar

I would so love to be sharing Mr 6's rainbow quilt today.  I really thought I had a good chance of finishing it this week.  But to be honest, the hand stitching is just a killer.  I am trying to do a little each day so at least there is still progress, albeit slow!  I'll include a progress pic as I noticed there are quite a few new followers :)  Welcome to any newbies and thanks for reading about my creative adventures *waves*

This photo is a little out of date, I'm up to the final hand embroidery
 and binding but this photo gives you a good idea of why
 I'm so keen to finish this beast and share it with you all :)

I did have two finishes this week though :)

First is the rainbow road quilt I shared earlier this week.  It is a project from the Curves Class that I'm taking.  Each week there are three projects and I actually completed all three projects from last week (this week LOL).  I love how this one turned out.  There were lots of panic moments when I thought it would be pure vomit but I really, really love the final result :)

  

My second finish for the week is another Curves class project.  It felt very strange to be making at Christmas themed mini in January LOL  I actually used some of the Kate Spain fabric that I won recently which was nice, I had thought it would be 11 months before I was using Christmas fabric!

I kept the quilting to a minimum (Aurifil 40wt 2024 and 50wt 2884) which is rare for me.  I still might go back and do a little quilting over the hills.  I have read that wall hangings need to be heavily quilted to hang flat, so I guess this will be a good test.  Do you like the little snowman I added?  The snowman was stitched with Aurifil 12wt, the blue is a lovely verigated thread (3770).

I'm glad I decided to make this project in addition to Rainbow Road.  I didn't get as curvy this time around and I also wasn't quite as happy but I did learn a lot and have fun :)  I used greys and some white scraps to piece the sky.  I wish I had used paler greys for the sky under the tree.  The trunk kind of gets lost in all that dark grey...

I do really like this mini though and it will definitely be used (or gifted) this coming Christmas.  I also discovered that I need to build up my stash of greys (both scraps and yardage).  Any excuse to build the stash, right? ;)

I'm really hoping I'll have a big finish to share next week :)  I'm struggling a bit with my thyroid condition at the moment (fatigue big time) so it is somewhat frustrating to be doing some slow handsewing rather than zooming away at the machine.  It would be nice to be zooming even if stationary LOL

I'm linking up with TGIFF over at Quokka Quilts this week.

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