CQJP and Heart

I posted my progress on my March block and the Sandy Hook Heart on the Tuesday Stitchers blog, but forgot to post here. 10 lashes with wet embroidery floss for me...lol
so here's part of that post:


CQJP March Block
I've just begun working on this block.

 a pretty piece of lace trim with ribbon woven through it
I added a few seed beads

with the large lace rose sewn onto the block shows the little progress I've made so far. Good thing it's still early.

I'm looking forward to stitching some more seam embellishments!









the heart block is almost finished!
Since the theme is children's toys, I've begun to add little, subtle stitched bits

bat and ball

starting a beach ball







a pipe blowing bubbles....right beside some bubble fabric

so the heart block now looks like this


Some of the seam treatments represent toys and play to me:
the ribbon woven bars are climbing bars; the woven circles are jacks; the upper right represents flowing water and tunnels as I often played near springs as a youngster, climbing under bowed tree branches and setting sticks floating along the rippling water



I've since completed the heart, and sent it off in the mail. I'll show a pic of the finished piece next post.

Hope you've all had a good week, with time for creating.

Thanks for visiting.
Hugs from Suz