SUNRISE, SUNSET= A FLIMSY

 

Finally a flimsy...

Here are a few of the little "fussy cuts"

in here:

Ladies...

Little bonnet fairy girl...

Little Pink bunny,,,

Baby Fairy girl...

I cannot get over how much difference the

pinks in this version of 

"Blues in the Night" made...

I shouldn't be surprised, but I am

at the totally different vibe...

And....

I want to make more of these to scatter

across the backing...

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I am resting my hands from slow stitching

on Kawandi-aka 

"Daughter of Dark Days"

  and Christmas Ojos

for a few days...

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Here are few funny notes from DH to 

remind me to get up and walk around:

and

The RULES:

(can you tell he was a teacher???hahaha)

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We are still in a heat wave here today--

no cool front or thunder storms in

sight as yet....

fingers crossed that we will be getting

the predicted relief...

S O O N....

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(resting-a-bit-euse)

P.S.  Don't you just Love this 

quilt by Terry Mangat I just saw

on Youtube???

What a perfect project for all my solids,

don't you think????

💖💙💚💛💜

 

FLOWERING ,et al

 

The brief rain shower we had two days ago

brought my Hydrangea into bloom;)))

Aren't these big blowsy flowerheads just beautiful !!

their whites are SO WHITE--against the

deep green leaves....

It sits by our deck staircase and we

can view it from our living room back window

as we sit there for our daily cocktail hour

and chat...

What a lovely sight 😊

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My African Violet has just finished

a huge spate of blooming

and there are now just a few

little blooms left

I wonder if it will put forth more flowers

or if I will have to wait while it

rests up...?????

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And Kawandi 

aka "Daughter of Dark Days"

is also

in Flower:

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I finished pinning all the patches in 

place--not the usual pin as you go

method, but I don't care for that

piecemeal way of construction...

So....

I added this lovely floral fabric as the central 

motif...and got everything

placed....

As I work around--each

round gets shorter and shorter

and the stitching 

 moves along faster...

You can see the spiraling stitches move

in the rectangular shape...

here is the warm end

And..

Here is the cooler end...

Using varied colored threads makes the lines

appear and disappear depending on the

fabric colors as I move along...

toward the central portion....

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We are still in a heat 

and humidity wave here

in our SE CT shoreline...

But....

They predict showers on Thursday

followed by a cool front moving over us...

I sincerely hope so!!

👺👹👿😩 

Hope those of you suffering in this heat

can stay cool

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(Kawandi-ing-along-euse)

KAWANDI PROGRESS, et al

 

Here are some 

"in progress" photos as I

continue working on my

Kawandi-style table runner:

Above is the first sewing round;

and below

The next round with added pinned-

in place fabrics; the cool colors end here

and 

The "warm" colors end here.

[you can see the new rows of

stitches in varying colors of threads...]

.

I am trying to make it a "rainbow-like"

piece with blues and purples 

moving across the middle area.

My dining room table--as a result--

 is a total mess

of fabrics as I search for 

fabrics that move into adjacent

colors well...

Not that easy just using what I have

on hand--which are mostly prints...

And here you can see that I have added more fabrics 

around...just that middle area now to be covered.

But I need to do more stitching around and around

and around .... sigh....

These last few rounds where the blues/purples and

reddish colors meet are the most difficult

to figure out...so that they "flow" 

together a bit...

I am tempted to just fill in the center with a

multicolored print and call it done!!

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Our temps and dewpoints have dropped

considerably today so we are able to 

sit out on our deck for morning coffees.

...

My daughter is on her way down here

for lunch with us armed with 

grinders for us all;)))

So looking forward to catching up with

her and my grands' doings...

Hugs, Julierose

La blageuse

(trying-out-fabrics-euse)

 

KAWANDI DEUX, et al

 

I've been wanting to make another

Kawandi-style piece 

since I finished this little

practice one:

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I learned a lot making this....

and I really like the process--

so different...and so 

nice and scrappy...

One thing for sure--I want to stitch 

in closer rows this time and with more

lines of quilting ,,,

Could this turn out to be 

"Daughter of Dark Days"????

(See the uneven stitching? )

I may take it all out and re-do them--

S  I  G  H..

but if I don't I 

KNOW it will bother me...so

before I get any farther on the border...

Ribbit, ribbit, ribbiting...

It's hard for me to sew on a table without

leaning forward too much 

and hurting my back; so,

I will pin the pieces in place for  

one whole side and then

(I know it's not really done that

way traditionally)  I will to sew as

usual  in my lap. 

I am just using stash and scraps 

on hand and that is revealing that I have

a whole lot of "darks" and

not that many "lights" of every

color stack...

Since I've been taking out

one color at a time and

refolding them 

(so I even can tell WHAT I

have in there!! What a mess!!)

I figured this would be a good time to

set up a new Kawandi-style piece...

[You can see the piles of fabrics on

my table above...]

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And....in other news...

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We have a lot of green tomatoes, but none have, as yet, turned red...

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It is a lovely day; low humidity and cooler with a nice

Northerly breeze....

We had our coffee out on the deck--

Aaaahhhh..

.

Nice slow start to the day...

👫

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(enjoying-a-good-day-euse)

CHRISTMAS OJOS, et al

 

I am working on hand quilting my

"Christmas Ojos" piece...

That will reside on my dining table during

the Holiday Season...

[click to enlarge]

The central "greener" portion 

above is

all quilted now.

 And

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I am working on the next to last row from the sides 
all the way around...

I switched from mint green thread to
pink (using "Finca"  perle #8 cotton)
my favorite weight for this bigger
stitching...

I am revisiting so many old scraps
of favorite fabrics in this piece:

flamingoes...

and Christmas puppies....

Pointsettas and red roses

Snowflakes 

and

Teacups

and

Vintage snowmen...

I hope to have this all quilted for this coming 

Christmas...working two blocks per

sitting right now to make sure my

hands don't get sore...

✋

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I am feeling a lot better this week;

happy to say....

😇😊😍

I've only had two days where

I was under the weather, so to speak.

And they were not a difficult as

they had been...

Fingers crossed 👏

that there will be fewer and

fewer relapse days...

I hope those of you in this heat wave

are able to stay cool--

we are in the AC 

(heaven knows what our

electric bill will be!!).

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(still-stitching-after-all-this stuff!!)

 

SUNRISE, SUNSET, et al

I have been slowly working on my

peachey-pinkish blocks...

I will call this one 

"Sunrise, Sunset" 

[thanks to my friend, Lizzy's suggestion

thanks so much;)))]

I think it really fits my scrappy colorways...

I have two more blocks to make and

I am doing them in manageable sections:

Cutting, then

Piecing the half-square triangles

[5 sets to make 10 of them.]

Then, after cutting them apart...

Pressing them open to ready them

for

Trimming into

3.5" 1/2 sq triangles.

I began with 4 1/4" squares so a bit

of trimmings result...

Here is my next block set up for sewing ...

Tomorrow I will just sew it into three strip parts

and then the next day sew them together...

I love working this way...💗

It makes sense to my fog-laden brain...

No overdoing at one sitting and getting

tired out and then making mistakes...

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When I sat at my machine this morning 

I spied this cutie out my window...

can you see her???

Munching on our clover...

How adorable...

💖💚

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I hope you are all staying cool during this heat wave...

We are lucky to have our AC to keep us

comfortable here...

Hugs, Julierose

La blageuse, 

[still-recuperating-euse]

 

EMERGING, et al

 

LOOK AT THIS!!!!

Our first little tomatoes are emerging....

I am finding this SO exciting!!:)))

It has been years since I've grown

any vegetables and I still feel a 

big sense of accomplishment

when plants produce...😂

and...I feel that

I am finally beginning to turn the corner

with these left over symptoms 

from both the Lyme disease

and Anaplasma from my tick bites...

I still have relapses, but fewer

and fewer....

I am less nauseous and am

having fewer headaches

with mainly that "brain fog"

hanging on the longest...

But...👌

I was able to sew a few pink strips

from my pink strip leftovers box

into a 6.5" block

....as a beginning....

A new emerging project

For my making of

a pink/peach version 

of the "Blues in the Night" blocks

as I did really enjoy making these...

Here is a picture of the Blues in the Night

if you recall it...???

I had placed the central 6.5" block horizontally

in this blue version, 

But I will place it 

vertically in my latest 

version:

All the fabrics, both in strips and

chunks for the 1/2 square triangles,

are from stash leftovers...

My pinks are limited so I've also added

some peachy ones and some that are 

a bit off the pink spectrum...

this one will be 

a really scrappy version...

😊

I plan to take the making of these

slowly, step by step, each

day that I feel well enough

and am trying not overdo--

so far

I've sat maybe 10 minutes +/-

at a time to sew....

My concentration is still pretty

shakey....and I do take frequent naps

which seem to help a lot...

Thank you to all who sent me 

such encouraging messages...

💓💙💚💛💜💓

Hugs, Julierose

La blageuse

(recuperating-euse)