FMQ Friday - pine needles & FMQ place mat

this week's FMQ homework from Fluffy Sheep Quilting was to practice a pattern called Pine Needles, so here they are: while stitching it I discovered the following things:
-traveling the same line is not my best ability :)
-for some reason it was easier to stitch the needles facing up then down - they came out more even and the angles are better too - who knows why.... the ones facing down remind me of a pine forest after a big storm - where the storm broke of half of the branches and the rest is all crooked :)

but that's not the only FMQ thing I did this week - I made a couple of christmas placemats and since I got tired of meandering I decided to do some feathers/leaves. I cheated a little - drew the approx. shape of the leaves on the mat with Frixion pen so I have some pointers where and how far to go.. it's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it anyway :) What do you think?

FMQ Friday - bright star

here is my FMQ Friday progress report. This week we were practicing bright star. Here is mine:
Not too bad, so I decided to incorporate them into a table runner I was working on - I didn't feel like doing the whole star, so I just did half - the runner is not ready yet, so I'll post a picture of one block.
I found that it's much harder to do the pattern on an actual project than on a practice square - my main problem with this patter was to get all the lines meet in the middle - so for now I'm happy when they meet somewhere in the middle-ish area ;)
I'm pretty sure the other ladies did better than me, so check out the other links on Fluffy Sheep Quilting blog ;)

FMQ Friday - slate tiles and pincushions

It's weekend again and that means showing of my FMQ slate tiles ;) Not much to show - tiles where not as much of a problem (even though they are a little uneven - Leah said it's ok ) as keeping the rows straight.
Then I went to practise the wavy lines from week one - you can clearly see which side was the beginning. Then I was in the mood for more FMQ so I tried to fill up the empty spaces between the lines ;)

Now to show you something that actually went good and turned out as I imagined - I made a couple of simple pincushions - they were really easy to make and turned out nice fluffy and soft :) Kind of a weird light - it's been so dark and dreary the whole week, no sun at all, so I didn't have much natural light for picture taking.