I Finished It

Seriously, I really did finish it.  This deserves a happy dance of epic proportions!  After all, it is my first real and unassisted finish.  What is "it" you ask?

Well, "it" is actually a two fold finish.  First I finished stitching Bird in Hand by Blackbird Designs.  Then I dug through some older posts on the Blackbird Designs blog and printed out Alma's great tutorial on Covered Boxes Part One and Part Two.  I headed out to my local quilt shop and picked up some fabric that was a perfect match for my design.  (Of course, you know I bought an extra fat quarter just for my stash, just in case!)  Believe it or not, hubby helped too.  Who knew he would enjoy the quilt shop?  (More on the quilt shop in another post.......)  We also ran by Michael's and picked up a cardboard box, a sheet of scrap booking paper and some coordinating DMC.

Sunday morning I set myself to work and in a short time I had this:

"Bird in Hand" by Blackbird Designs

Stitched on 40ct Vintage Light Examplar by Lakeside Linen

using Belle Soie's "Sister Scarlet"

With a little more time and effort I turned my covered box into this:

Now, this being my first attempt, I have learned some valuable lessons for the next time.  But all in all, I thought is was worthy enough to send off to my 100th Post Giveaway Winner, Jennifer of Feathers in the Nest.  It was very, very, very tempting to just keep this one for myself.  After all, we have the same initial and no one would ever know.........bwaaa ha ha ha!

But, since it is better to give than to receive, I put it in the box that I sent to Jennifer.  Can't you see it in there? Look just below the "B" in Beauty and you can see one of the corners.

 
This was really lots of fun.  Now that I feel better about some of my finishing I am looking forward to many more giveaways and exchanges!
 
Happy Stitching!