MELANGE, et al

 

ZIpper blocks will be named from now on

"MELANGE"

Above ↑↑↑↑ is the dictionary definition

of Melange. [click to enlarge]

In our French Aunts' households, when I

was growing up, every week they

would gather the bits and pieces of

leftovers, not wanting or affording to

waste food, and put together

wonderful soups...

When I was visiting, 

"What's for dinner?" I would ask---

"Melange Soup" would be the answer.

and I would so look forward to our meal...

And I think that

Today's version might be called:

"Everything but the kitchen soup--soup!"

At any rate, I think of that when I look at

my zipper blocks all together on the wall--

a total mixture of styles and types

of fabrics....

This is not the final order, of course,

But here are the latest "makes"

These two 

and this one below

I first saw these made into a quilt

At Cathy's blog  {click}

wherein-- she also showed her

cousin Kim's  finished zipper quilt

and her own quilts

AND

I saw how her

 Kim's idea of adding

a lot of yellow 

made her quilt 

 glow with that color...

I am going forward for my

quilt with that idea in mind.

[Hope that's ok Cathy ???;00]

So, today 

I have 4 yellow sets ready 

to be sewn and I will see how

they appear in my grouping...

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I hope you are all enjoying these 

last few days of Summer..

It is hard for me to believe

that my granddaughter, Fiona,

began Middle School today !!!!

and 

that my twin grandsons

entered their Sophomore

year in college!!!!

Y I K E S

I am an "Old One" for sure...

👵

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(making-my-fabric-melange-euse)

ZIPPING ALONG, PEARS OJOS, et al

 

My latest Zipper block...

The last of the Cherries

fabric that I have been

hoarding....💓

Since 

I was able to do some cutting

today, I set these four 

zipper blocks up--

[some old  and some new fabrics...]

All ready to sew--I am enjoying

sewing these together...

I have no idea how they will all

"go" together--

Maybe just higgeldy-piggeldy??

(In my usual casual way?)

⇊⇊

And 

this one-- beside my machine...

for tomorrow' s sewing...

↓

is this old, old favorite fabric 

that a friend, now long gone

swapped with me ....

;))))

I've been sewing one a day--but 

I may try to stretch to two--

depends on

Le Dos (the back!!).

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Meantime, on the hand quilting front:

PEARS OJOS

⇣⇣⇣

I have finished the 3 large central

blocks..YAY!!

:)))

[click to enlarge--I don't know if you

can see them clearly?]

I will begin on the outer

 side strip blocks this evening...

Here is a picture of the back where

the quilting may be easier to see...

👀👀👀👀

I really like this 

basket fabric a lot;

and the quilting really makes it look

vintage, all pulled in like that.

Lots of texture...

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FYI

This is for Cathy ;)))

On the LG Fridge compressor and 

circuit board early deaths:

💀💀❤❤❤

We are in negotiations with LG--

they said they would get back to us

in the next 24 hrs about some kind

of reimbursement for 

our 4 yr-3mo. old

LG!!

(fingers crossed)

And we are also awaiting the 

delivery of our new

Whirlpool side-by-side fridge

in about

30 minutes...

hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse

(happy-to-be-sewing-once-more)

WINTER VILLAGE PAGE CHANGES

 

From this↑↑↑

TO....this

↓↓↓

I just could not get my head

around those birds above--

I really love how they look

in and of themselves, but as a part

of this page base I found it hard

to connect the two halves

So

they have

flown away to come back

another day ;))))

Instead,

 I came across this  little strip

of an older "Silent Night" music fabric

in my "BIG BAG of scraps,

and I've added a dash of

red and green fabric for my

corners...

So a semi-new base to work on.  

I will be stitching

on this until September 1st when

the new prompt comes out..

I also need to add a Tab--

which is the challenge 

this month.

I am working on an

idea for that...💁💫🔍🔮

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(stitching-and-pondering-euse)

SAD, SADDER, SADDEST!!

 

See, I look brand new! Not a scratch!

But, but, 

but

 I am deader than a doornail!!

💀💀💀

Only five years old...and my compressor

went and the electronic board is 

also gone!! 

SO, 

We need a new fridge,,,;000

The repair person recommended

Maytag or Whirlpool as he said

the LG's compressors are all

plastic and he's seen a whole

lot just go after 4-5 yrs...!!

Tom is out looking around as

I cannot go and just stand

as yet...my legs are getting

stronger, but not that good as yet...

I totally

trust him to choose us a 

fridge if any are available..

After all.......

He chose our: 

 new dishwasher and stove

and clothes dryer.....

they all had to be replaced

in the past year...

👹👺👾👿

Just too, too much...

Appliances are not made like they used to be...

Talk about built in obsolescence.!!!

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Okay enough of THAT  debacle!!!!

I added two more 

Zipper blocks to my

batik collection

Bottom left and Bottom right...

this group will be all batiks....with

solids and hand dyed solids...

And************************

I finished my:

Winter Village page

Snow is just starting to fall in my mountain

village....

[click]

;)))))

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Now to embellish my Christmas Village

below:

I have to give this some thought...

I am still wondering about the 

two bird panel on the right???

A whole lot of that green....????

But, really, I cannot think right now...

YA THINK?????

We are so happy that Tom found this little

upright, back-up fridge--

It looks like we will be needing it

for a while....

and so it goes, 

never a dull moment lately

it seems...

Hugs, 

Julierose,

La blageuse

(gob-smacked-right-now-euse)

NEW DECOR--A SAD TALE OF WOE

 

Our new dining room decor....And here's that 

"Sad Tale of Woe"

↡↡↡↡↡

Yesterday afternoon at 4:30

we opened our big LG refrigerator to

melting ice cream and food not cold at all!!

{It is only 5 years old}

😧😡😠😱

The fridge had obviously stopped working for quite

a while; and we had had no reason to

open the door after lunch time...

AND

So everything had warmed up to 67 degrees

by the time we noticed it had shut down...

SO

We called and called and called some

more--but no one could get here until,

they said, 

MAYBE

NEXT Thursday

at the earliest!!!!

and, 

by that time last evening,

 most places

had closed for the day--of course!!

S I G H...

At 7 pm, after not having gotten any kind of

answers, Tom went out to Costco and

got us this mini fridge to tide us over.

And plugged it in to cool down overnight...

{There were no little dorm room

fridges available as most colleges

are going or have gone back into

session--

and so he got us this

bigger one}

Hence the NEW DECOR for a while...

;0000

I am thankful that he could find

this one for us...

;)))

(there-- some good news, right?)

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We are totally gob-smacked👽👿👺--

that we have had to throw out 

ALL

 of our food --

[except for things like

bread, lettuce and two

tomatoes--whoopee!!].

Early this morning, we emptied

the entire spoiled 

contents of the fridge and

the freezer!! $$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!

I went to the grocery early this morning

[while Tom continued his search 

on the phone and computer for

a repairman...].

 I got just a  few things 

to tide us over--

The good news is that

Tom finally got a repair

person who will be 

coming on Monday!! 

FILE UNDER;

"You just never know"!!!

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We are recuperating 

with our coffees now, 

and trying to figure

out what to have for supper...

We do have an auxiliary freezer 

in our laundry room that we 

had just bought a couple

months ago in case of hurrican

power outages --so there are

some frozen meats in there we can

have over the weekend...

Hugs,

Julierose, La Blageuse

(thankful-we-have-the-

new-backup-fridge-euse)

CHRISTMAS and WINTER VILLAGES, et al

 

My Christmas Village ( prompt):

I've  basted this page  down.

I will be adding a lot more embroidery

on this page...snowflakes

and such....

Again I used  some of the

Jason Yenter fabric for that

Village scene...

and some cute little 

faux needlepoint birds

on the bare winter branches...

I have to have a think about what to add in..

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AND

Here is the background I wove

as the base for the 

Winter Village

after I realized that those longer

blue strips could become 

little Mountain houses...

Here they all are just pinned into place...

Today I basted everything down...

Little mountain houses--

free-cut from my tiniest scraps...

for roofs,

doors, and windows...

Very wonky indeed...😄

I think

those Winter winds have blown

them about a lot ;)))

I will be outlining the houses and

adding snow-ey lace bits

and perhaps some 

stitched icicles..

and snowflakes of some sort...

Maybe some kind of wreath...

This still needs quite a bit of 

embroidery also..

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Last weekend I stitched some more

zipper blocks using more cut-offs and

leftovers...

These two are using batiks...

[Can you see Mrs. Fish?]

I am not trying to match up anything,

just using what comes to hand as

I weed out my bigger scrap

pieces...

I love this "oranges" print and have it

in a mauve colorway too...

And

To illustrate just scrappiness

these three....

{Can you find the mistake??

Who was it who said:

 "It it's too short

add something,

 if it's too long, 

cut it off" !!!!!}

One of my best quilting rules...

I want to make some lighter blocks now

to add to the mixture..

This is what I have been making 

in my 15 minute segments

:)))))

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(zipping-along-euse)

MONDAY'S SMALL UFO WALL

 

I unearthed these blocks from my

"Small UFO Drawer" this morning.

When you haven't been in your sewing room

for over 1 and 1/2 years you kinda

forget what you had in mind...👀😢

And if you didn't put notes on any

of them, you have to wonder what

you had in mind?????

I've decided to just pick up these projects

and go with whatever looks

them or What I was going

to make (no note !!).

I am thinking I would like the 

purple one in the middle now...

(S I G H )

SO

Mr. Ribbit will be visiting...

[I actually really like this pattern

a lot...this has possibilites...]

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and then

These are not yet sewn--I do

recall they were to feature at the

bottom of one of my big quilts,

but didn't make it into the scheme.

I will see if I can figure out

how to

sew these together tomorrow...

should I add some spacers??

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I don't even like this strip of squares

much--

looks like just a

mish-mash of leftovers...

We shall see--this one will need

some thought...perhaps

just more leftover 2.5" sqs...??

Dolly quilt backs???

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These are start of a little hourglass log cabin!!

AND they need trimming; 

I must have used

the long strip method...

Why oh why didn't I mark what I had

in mind??????

and

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↴↴↴↴

ORANGES

They started out last Friday as

62 two-patches...

One and one-half inchies that

I am sewing into 16 patches...

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I have a few other "just singles" that 

I cannot deal with right now...

👹👿💀

Picking up where you left off after

a long time away without any

guide as to what you were

planning is tiring!!!!!

This was enough for

one mornings work...

All in all, not very exciting are they? 

Perhaps they will grow on me;

or maybe you folks have some ideas...??

hugs, Julierose,

La blageuse 

(re-entery-ing-euse)