FINISHED PETAL KNOT DRESS AND WIP

The Petal Knot dress is finished and being modeled by its new if somewhat camera shy owner.  Vail spent the night last night and wanted to wear her new dress to school.  Since she didn't bring extra accessories she is wearing the pink bow and pink shoes that were going to be worn with the outfit she had brought from home to wear this morning.  What's a grams to do?? :)

You can't really see the flowers on the apron in the picture.  This is what it looked like before gathering.  I think the flowers turned out really cute.

Since I was waiting for the first visit from the  Terminix guy all afternoon (he turned out to be a no show)  I got Jennifer to help me get my sock monkey all situated on its background and then ironed it on.

I'm going to zigzag around it with dark brown thread.  Then I cut my squares and strips to make 5" squares and got all the strips sewn to make 32 5" squares to go with the other 5" squares I had already cut out.

  Now I'll make those into 16 four patch squares and they will make the outside border on my sock monkey quilt.  I had collected most of the fabric before I bought the pattern so my quilt will be a little different but most all mine are different from the original pattern.  Anyway, if I have time between straightening and packing tomorrow for my trip to TX , I may try to get the top mostly sewn together or atleast get the monkey stitched down and the big squares sewn together.

Wednesday I'll be off to TX by way or Cleveland MS for one night and will not be taking my computer.  So I'll be out of pocket til next week.