Yes, Dawn, your Geisha is quite beautiful. Congratulations.

Rosemary, Swedish fish are red gummy candy, cherry flavor I think. If I buy them I eat until they are gone. So with the rest of you I will enjoy virtual fish….

Darn, I can't figure out how to copy the "free image" here. Oh dear, I may have to buy the real thing and take a picture. But then I've already told you what will happen.

Dawn, congratulations on your wins, great job.

Margarita

Congrats on the beautiful ribbon win for your geisha! It is well deserved.

I have been scanning the posts about the dying. Not into the process, but totally enjoying your results! They are all so striking.

I actually spent time today in my sewing room. Our last guild speaker said sometimes you just need to mindlessly sew squares together & go from there. So I took a jelly roll and sewed the strips together in pairs. Then I cut them into 4.5" squares. Not quite a rail fence, but I got some much needed therapy. LOL The blocks are up on my design wall & when I sew them together, it will be for a charity quilt.

Congratulations Dawn on your win, your ipad cover is lovely .
Anne

Dawn,
I'm so happy for you I could run around in the rain!!
One ribbon at any level is great, but,, getting 2 ! Wowsers,, and at that level! Double Wowsers!!!!
It was really a terrific piece, and I'm glad the judges agreed with all of us here! Congrats all over the place.

Thanks to everyone that has been leaving comments on my blog this month. Come Tuesday morning, somebody's mailbox will be the destination for some goodies. Sorry, I'm not putting in any chocolate, as I hear that postal people can smell it and confiscate it for taste testing!! LOL

Have a wonderful day,
Luann

Jdeluka your monsters are looing fabulous. Sometimes it's worth un-doing stuff.
Can't wait to taste Swedish fish Lois and Rosemary's Scottish sweeties.
Debbie where are the fires? We haven't heard anything about them this side of the Atlantic.
Marianne

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Dawn, congratulations on your wins

Lois, what are Swedish fish? pictures are necessary - as well as a taste description

Jdeluka, I think that I am in agreement with you on the skin tone for your monsters, looking good now.

Got some new sweeties from Scotland to share once I get them unpacked

Though I'd share my progress. After tearing a art the previous blocks I've finally gotten them put back together with fabric from my stash....much happier now. I would have probably give up in disgust on this one if I hadn't taken the time to fix the colors. Here's some before and after pictures

The witch's green hair was HORRIBLE on the purple background, nothing like the original pattern.



Mrs Monster looked like she had an infectious disease with that skin tone! I didn't take pictures of Mr Monster but he was a terrible yellow-green with way too much pattern and didn't read well at all.



Here's where I am now - I feel like the critters all look much friendlier now. Who knows when I'll start the machine embroidery on these guys but at least they are ready.

Yippee Dawn congratulations

I do neither machine embroidery nor dyeing but I certainly do enjoy the eye candy those skills produce. Thanks for sharing. The Dots and M&M's are good but in my book they don't hold a candle to Swedish Fish. So let me offer some. Good to hear that your mother is well enough to go home, Geneva. Been away from my sewing room. Can't wait to get back and get some photos of things I am working on. Have great day everyone.

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Thanks Nancy

Annis, I think the best way to approach ME is to take baby steps - we all had to stand up before we could walk and some of us even had to crawl The main thing is to enjoy the process and be OK with those NOT perfect stitch-outs. I keep them all and then make shopping bags by cutting them up into squares 3" or 4" and make a new piece of fabric from them mixing them all up so nobody can tell what belonged where. Great fun
Luann; as you can tell from the above I am very much brought up to not wasting anything and have a hard time just playing but I'm getting better as time goes by so there's hope for you too. It's always good to be with like-minded people and I'm sure it's just as beneficial to stroke fabric and thread as it is to stroke a cat or a dog (although I still miss my dog because the fabric doesn't greet you when you come home does it?) but all the same
Congratulations, Dawn - that is awesome! Re your software - I don't know Brother's software at all but the basics in all programs are more or less the same and I'm sure there are lots of people on the forum who digitize so we can all pool our knowledge and share experience while we pass around the chocs. And of course you can do an art quilt in 3 weeks - can't wait to see what you come up with.
Marianne

Love the embroidery design, Marianne! Very cool!

Congratulations, Dawn, on your wins! How exciting! Your ipad case is beautiful and well-deserving!!