My progress on the purple
themed crumb blocks...8 more blocks to
finish before adding
separator strips
in lavender...
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I had thought I was going to do the next
Slow Stitching for Roxy's
Journal of Stitchery--
But if you look here on
my design wall below:
[click to enlarge]
↧↧↧↧
On the right, you can see the Slow Stitch
fabric snippet roll I made a
couple years ago...
This next 6 month's stitching is
just really a larger version of
a garden snippet roll---
and I had enough
trouble putting this one together
as I recall ;000
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And on the left is my next UFO:
My Mourning piece for my
Mom and Dad's Passing...
❤
Mom has been gone for 7 years
now (I cannot believe it!!)--
and it is time to finish
this one up.
It is all hand stitched--
and free cut...
even the squares are hand
stitched together--
It took me about 3 years
to add the embroidery which symbolizes
their passing (two hearts on the bottom
left with rootlets growing into the earth.
I kept having to put it away as
it made me SO SAD...)
AND
My moving on into the
Circle of Life on the top right..
❤
I used a lot of the methods I learned
in an online class with Jude Hill...
So....
I want to back this and hang it in
my sewing space....
Next up is to find a suitable backing...
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I have also set up a Rainbow Glue Book
for myself as I find this work so
relaxing and I
L💙ve
to cut paper and glue...
AND IT IS EASY!!!:))))
I used a simple composition
notebook, gluing two pages together
and sealing them with Washi Tape
for strength...
Below is that result:
A rainbow of colors along the
edges denoting
what color images to glue
on each page--
There are
three pages for every color--
but blue has four
💙💙💙💙
(I Love Blue )
And the back pages will be
Black & White Images...
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So, between the above projects
and my Garden Embroidery
(I am waiting for some
needles to come in the mail
to begin)
I should have more than enough to
keep me busy....and give myself
the variety I need to choose
from every day...
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I hope your New Year is going well,
we loved the holidays, but are happy to
get back to what passes for normal
around our House on the Hill...
👫
Hugs,
Julierose, La Blageuse
(Doing-my-own-thing-euse 😊)
Reading : "An Unsuitable Job For A Woman"
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You have quite a few projects to choose from and they are all very nice. The book is quite interesting.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a very happy and healthy 2023, Julierose.
Variety is what we all need. Ideas for the projects come when we are busy stitching.
ReplyDeleteYou have some wonderful things in progress, Julierose. It's great to have a choice, from day to day and sometimes from hour to hour. I can understand the sadness that comes while working on the piece commemorating your parents. Happy memories, too, I hope?
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot going on, it's nice to be able to choose what to work on when you feel like sitting down and doing some craft.
ReplyDeleteThe rainbow book sounds like fun.
ReplyDeleteIt will be nice to have your mourning piece hanging in your space, now that you can look at it without being unbearably sad.
I love having a variety of projects to choose from each day too. Right now I'm working on knitted socks, the mile-a-minute crocheted afghan, a teddy bear, and trying to finish a lap quilt that I started several years ago. It just needs to be hand quilted and bound but I've been procrastinating because I really don't like hand quilting.
ReplyDeleteOh I do like your rainbow journal - especially the edges of the pages. What fun! And I am a firm believer in having multiple projects in the works - it totally prevents boredom.
ReplyDeleteYou've got lots of great projects to work on. Do whatever makes you happy!
ReplyDeleteYou have some nice projects to choose from. The Rainbow Glue Book looks like fun to make.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and diverse quilt projects. I admire Jude Hill's work and can see her influence on that piece. The Purple Crumbs is lovely.
ReplyDeleteThe Glue Book fascinates me. I will research more---tho since I no longer get magazines not sure about the color nits.Maybe catalogues, labels?
You always find fun and diverse projects to focus your attention on. I look forward to seeing what you do as you share things on your blog. I'm just working on one project right now - a hand quilting one. I used to hand quilt 3 hours a day but those days are long gone now. I do well to get 1 hour done.
ReplyDeleteCertainly plenty of beautiful projects to deal with here, all so different and such a good idea to have a few in the works.
ReplyDeleteLove the photo on the wall of your projects, the Mourning piece for your parents is beautiful.
Yes, we can no longer postpone things until after the holidays. It was so nice to have a break from meetings. I am especially taken with your purple crumbs.
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