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It's finally sandwiched and ready to quilt.  So today I begin the process.  It's always a little scary to jump in- but it won't get done if I don't take the plunge.

It was a productive day.  I got Joseph stitched together so he's almost done.  Then I started working on Mary's hair.  So here she is in pieces.  More hair below.  Then I'll get her stitched together too--it's coming together and I'm excited to get it done.

 this shows the hair process for those interested.  It's really just a freezer paper technique--folding the edges over the paper pattern and then putting them back together.  However, the pointy curls on the ends of the hair were too hard to get folded around the paper well, so my solution was to put a tiny piece of fusible on the ends and cut those sharp points.

So it's a combination, but for me it's what works that's important.

Well we had a fast but very enjoyable anniversary trip.  We drove up to Gold Beach Oregon and had a wonderful dinner at Spinners stayed the night, walked on the beach  etc. Here's papa taking pictures, you can see the rugged Oregon Coastline.

Hi, well I've been working on both my figures but haven't taken time to blog.

VBS is over and we had a great week. Lots of fun kids.

So here's Joseph's face--what do you think of this stripe for his coat?

The quilt is coming along.  I'm getting down to some parts that I'm not sure how to approach, so I'll have to mull them over during my sleep and do a bunch of sketching--getting myself ready to move onto the background.  Another thing is the hands on Mary.  I painted them, like the faces, but now I need to applique them over her gown.  My usual method is to machine stitch, but I'm not sure.  You won't believe it, but I'm actually considering "hand stitching" them down.  So many little ins and outs, make it difficult to get things turned under nicely.  So I'll let you know....