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)