Embroidered Pumpkin Wagon

 I believe this pumpkin wagon block was embroidered last fall and then I ran out of time(aka-ignored it).  It has been sitting in a basket this whole time just waiting to be finished up.  This past week I worked on it in spurts, after finishing the checkerboards I couldn't decide how I wanted to finish it.  I texted Wendy at Piecefulthoughts.com/ with a photo of some samples of finishes and asked for her thoughts.  We agreed just putting on a green border would finish it nicely.  I am very happy with how it looks!  

Since I was working with scraps for practically this whole wall hanging I didn't have more of the inner green.  But thanks to a fabric acquisition on Friday, more on that in a moment, I had a green that was of the same coloring.  

I really enjoyed hand embroidering this little pumpkin wagon in the evenings while watching TV.  The embroidery pattern designer is Primitive Stitches. 

I hand sewed on three little leaf buttons after it was all quilted.  Some people worry about quilting over hand embroidery. Really there is no problems with it, I used a glide cream to match the background fabric and did a simple cross hatch. 

In the interest of using more scraps I pieced the back of this 21"x21" project.  I tend to add a split sleeve on these small projects so you only have to put on nail or pin in your wall in order to hang it. 

One could use it as a table topper if you wanted!  I will be linking with August Table Scraps Challenge where embroidery and orange were the requirements.  And since I used scraps I am linking with Oh Scrap!

Now about the fabric acquisition from Friday, a quilter who happened to be a nurse passed away from Covid last year, so sad.  Her friends and neighbors put on an estate sale with all of her belongings. I didn't know her but I heard the basement was just full of fabric and they had a presale for her friends before opening it up to the public. Well there was still plenty of fabric to pick from when I got there.  Here is my haul, charm packs $4 each,  Fqs $1, and yardage was $4.  All of the yardage I got except for one has metallic gold accents, my customers love that in the runners.  And the rulers were $3 each.  There was tons of books there on everything from sewing, embroidery to quilting. I didn't need any of those. But it's times like this that makes one really think of your stash...and then I go buy more, HA!

A closeup of the yardage, so yummy!!!!  I used some of it already!  You'll see the results this week;)