Embroidered mystery quilt is quilted!

Here it is: finished! I just put in the last few stitches on the white binding-I'm so glad this is completed! Hand embroidery and machine quilting team up quite well!Here's a close up of one of the baskets and the diagonal curvy lines I quilted through the embroideries.
Here you can see the wandering vine with leaves I quilted in the large white areas and
the small vine with leaves and larger flowers I machine quilted in the smaller isolated white areas
The center embroidered block shows how the curvy lines meet in the middle.
Here's the quilt-folded on a chair and showing the white binding outside the black border.
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Quilting the Mystery Quilt and Best of Web feature

I decided to use diagonal lines for my quilting so I used my Hera marker so I would have guide lines.I decided to use curved lines and while I'm not finished yet some interesting things are coming up...check out that corner! Pretty cool.
I like the way the quilting looks on the embroidery blocks too. I have a confession-I've never machine quilted over embroidery before. I always quilted around the embroidery. Now this isn't heavily quilted over the embroidery but still...
see-stitches right over the embroidery and looking good!
I'm one of several sewing/crafting blogs featured this week as Best of the Web at Pocketchange. Hop on over-its a fun blog for finding other blogs and I'm sure you'll enjoy the blogs featured this week-I know I have.

Mystery Quilt Reveal

Here it is finally! I'm not sure about the black border...what do you think? I like how the black border brings out the embroideries but I'm wondering if I should use no border and just a narrow 1/4" black binding.

Here you can see better the true colors of the fabrics.
As leader (and designer) of the mystery quilt I told the group that they needed 4 fabrics for the blocks plus one for the embroideries. I chose to use the same fabric-white-for one of the 4 block fabrics and for the embroideries. You can see how this mystery quilt looks with 4 different fabrics here-Barbie @ the Quilt Center posted hers earlier this month-scroll down one post to the May 3 post.

I have the batting...now I just need to decide on the backing and solve my border/binding dilemma. I don't want this to just go into the closet-I want to be inspired by all of you who actually finish your quilts!

Mystery Quilt update: Last block embroidered!

Was Blogger hacked? I tried to post yesterday and I got a message that Blogger was down. I checked it out and it doesn't seem that Blogger was hacked-rather someone made an "Oops" during regular maintenance. Hope your post wasn't one of those eliminated.I've finished the last embroidery block for the mystery quilt. Its not a great picture because I took it with the block in place with all the blocks laid out on the bed. I've pinned the rows and have started sewing them! This is the large center block-12" x 12". The quilt also has 12 6" x 6" blocks and I actually embroidered 13 which was good because I didn't like how one block came out.

More pix later in the week-the mystery quilt is coming to completion!

Happy Valentine's Day

DH surprised me with these lovely flowers...that's not so easy to do as he had to find ones that have no scent because of my allergies. I think he did really well.Hope you have a lovely Valentine's Day!

I'm still working on my Jane Stickle quilt but I took a little break and embroidered two more squares for my mystery quilt. Doesn't the one on the left remind you of the Eiffel Tower?

Progress on the Basket Embroidery Quilt

I've completed another two hand embroidery blocks for the Basket Embroidery Quilt...I just love this one!...
and the first set of setting blocks.
I've scheduled the outline embroidery tutorial that I said I'd post months ago for tomorrow...sorry it took so long!

I'm linking up to Finished for Friday at Lit and Laundry.

Embroidery Mystery Quilt

Have I mentioned that I lead the Redwork Club at our LQS? To start the Fall off right, we're working on a mystery quilt and I'm, of course, making it right along with everyone else. These are the fabrics that I've chosen...these would have been perfect for last year's Black and White Challenge. They're all from my stash though the one on the left is a recent addition.

The embroidery theme is baskets...
and flowers. How do you like my black embroidery? I love it...I wanted to work in one color floss embroidery-it is so much quicker-and I've been thinking about black embroidery ever since the B & W Challenge and a quilt that I didn't make! :)