I JUST WANT TO STITCH!

 

While cleaning out my batting box, I came across

this little "batting booklet" I made a long while

back.....

I know I was following a Youtube video sewalong,

but I'll be darned if I can recall whose YT it was...

(sorry, if you may recall, let me know?)

** It's "Sew For the Soul"

by Ann Brooke Textile Artist

I remembered!! YAY!!

I never got into working in this and instead had

moved onto making some fabric journals 

with fabric pages for a while...

So, this had gotten stored away 

with all my extra

batting cut-off pieces...

Lately.....

I have been watching a lot of "Susan Taylor Brown's" 

Youtube videos and her idea of just

stitching for fun really resonated with me

today...

So I began a little first page using

methods I learned on Jude Hill's online

classes I took a long while ago...

Using some of those little cut off 

strips that are not big 

enough to seam, but are still fun 

to use in the "raw edge" manner...

I wove this:

I am in the process of 

"invisible basting" 

it together.  

[A process I also learned from Jude Hill....]

I will be removing the pins as I stitch...

I want to "try out" different ideas on these pages...

I don't care if the batting shows; I don't care

if the colors are not "matchey-matchy"--I

am just using what I have on had in my

scrap baggies...

Just something to be able to 

pick up when the spirit moves me

and my hands allow, to slowly stitch...

😄

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Here is the closure on my first little

Meditation Scroll..an old button

on a 

a strip of Sari silk to 

wind about it and hold it in place ,,,,;)))

One of you, I think it may have been Nancy?, said

she'd like to peek inside my little

Japanese Rice Bag.  

💕

And here is what you see....

👀💗👀

I have my completed scroll and a new one

that I just basted and is ready to 

be stitched 

next to it...

{see the little pin holding it in place?}

I will be Working on the new one

in my lap while watching tv....

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I am using this adorable little tin to hold

some little tiny pieces for my batting book ...

Some of those teeny, tiny 

strips...and bits....

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So far today, we have reached 81 degrees with 

a dew point of 70.3!! But.....

but, but but, here off the shore, we do 

get a nice breeze off the ocean which has

not warmed up too much as yet...

We do have our AC on though....

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And so, I have set myself up for some

slow stitching projects for the

Summer while I finish off a lot

of my little "quiltlets": layering and

binding them on Helga...

Hugs, Julierose,

La blageuse

(stitching-for-fun-euse)

....