CHRISTMAS OJOS FINISHED, et al

 

I finished "Christmas Ojos:

this afternoon...

{as usual click to enlarge any photos}

💚💖💝

Here is a closer look at the binding I chose...

and 

how the pink quilting looks on

the reverse tone on tone green:

As you can see, I did the 2.5" strip binding all on 

my machine--ending with a zig-zag on the

front side

I love all those little special items contained in this piece;

a good Christmas memory quilt...

Full of "bits and bobs" of leftover 

favorite fabrics...

Here it is on my dining table--most likely

it will be featured lying over my deep maroon

cloth which should set it off nicely

 for my Christmas dinner...

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File under:

Change of Seasons:

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Here is my Autumn Bounty topper with an old,

favorite bright yellow teapot

on my table for the coming

of Fall 🍂🍁🍃

I really love that center pear fabric...

💛💛💛

I have also hung my Autumn Stars on

the dining room wall..

[I need to make little hangers for it, right now

its just tucked over the bar !! ]

I will finish putting out more Autumnal pieces

tomorrow...to welcome 

Fall into

our 

home...

⌛💐🏡

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Hugs, 

Julierose,

La Blageuse

(moving-into-Autumn-euse)

JUNQUE JOURNALING, et al

 

Here is a new double page spread from

my Pita Box Junque Journal...

{you can click to enlarge if you wish}

I am using a lot of old photos

in this Journal--juxtaposed with

modern magazine images...

Can you find the face stamp on each page???

They tend to get partially hidden sometimes...

This has become my signature image for 

this volume...;)))

I call this one my 

Lady of Mystery...

Some pages have journaling cards

or spots to write...

Here, I've used an old group 

photo of Aunts of mine 

as a holder for the 

little Journaling card..

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Little by little, I am filling these pages; 

I have one more section left to

prepare --I don't write every day

diary style, but only when the

spirit moves me...

I am really having fun playing

in my  

Pita Box 

Junque Journal.

💛💜💝

😇

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(playing-with-paper-euse)

NEXT...et al

 

"Sunrise, Sunset" is next in line

for a long term hand quilting project...

I am beginning on the long coin strip center...

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Here is the final version of 

"Falling Leaves" 

A Flimsy now...

I decided to add just two more borders 

with cornerstones of the leaf fabric...

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And I finally finished my hand quilting on

"Christmas Ojos"

(Phew--lots of stitches here)

I love how textured it came out...

You can see all the stitching here....

😇😊😌😍

Now I have to find a good binding

fabric...

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Here is my little collection of

meditation spools on my buffet...

Five done now...

They are perched on my Grand-mere's old

cake stand and sitting on her

crocheted doily...

Those dried roses are from my last

year's bouquet from my

Sweet Baboo 👄💖

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Tomorrow my daughter and her family

will all be coming to share lunch with us

before they are off to college and/or

work for the Autumn...

Also, (one of the twins grandsons), Greg,

is bringing his new girlfriend

to meet us--hmmmmm

must be serious, right?

👫👌;)))

We hope to hear all about their

recent family trip to Brazil

for their cousin's wedding

celebration...💒

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(prepping-euse)

RAIN, et al

 

Isn't that something--that I had to take a picture of it finally raining!!

😓😒😐😕

We got all of 1.07" overnight here--look at our straw lawn there;

that shows just how dry we've been... We seem to be in a little

space that never got any rain --except perhaps .01 here and there

once in a while all this Summer...so this was an "event" for us...

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Itsy-Bitsy Spider is all together 

and

awaiting a border --

(N.B.--this was a challenge to sew the sections 

together with all those seams!!)

and 

my other latest project.....

Falling Leaves right next to it on my 

design wall...is still waiting a decision

on borders or not or what????

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And....

"Christmas Ojos" 

only has 3 more blocks for me to

hand quilt left!! 😂😄😅😇

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I pulled out this old UFO

and am now in the process of choosing

a backing and then layering it up

for my machine quilting pile...

It's been around for so long I cannot

even recall if I named it or not???

I used all my little leftover 1.5" sqs 

for this one...it needs to be finished...

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Sorry about not answering your comments 

on my last "Itsy-Bitsy" post--

😭😢😱

your comments all had gone to spam--

(thank you Blogger!!👿with no notification!)

But thanks to my sharp-eyed friend 

Lizzy

Who emailed me about this SNAFU,

I went into "Help" and was able

to fix it (I hope!!) --

If your comment doesn't show up,

let me know would you?

Thanks;))))

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(quilting-away-euse)

Comments

 

Your lovely comments have all gone to spam--I think I have corrected this in my settings...

thanks Lizzy for letting me know....they have all appeared on the last blog post now--will try to answer

you all...thanks,

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse 

(spammed-euse)

"THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER...", et al

 

My "Itsy Bitsy Spider" piece is all

sewn--[just pinned up on the wall

in the orientation I will use].

(I would love a bigger version, but

my arms and shoulders say

"Nay, Nay"!!)

I had such fun piecing this on these

[purchased from MSQCo online]

{for whoever asked how I pieced it?}

⇊⇊⇊⇊

I made my own template for the centers (green fabrics)

and pieced the strips on either side to make 

that web...;

plus,  I used my leftover strips from 

my "Sunrise, Sunset" piece

 that is now ready

to be quilted...

😏 

[Stand in line with all the others!!]

BUT.....L 👀👀 K↓↓↓

at all the strips still to be used up...

So....

I have begun making strip sets

for some future use,

I don't want these hanging around

in a baggie and

forgotten forever!! 

If they are pre-sewn together there

is a better chance they will get used..

at least that is my thinking right now..

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And, for those of you interested in our

tomato-growing

experiment

here is the first picking:

👀

Not too shabby, huh?  

Altho', I did find that we lost a lot

to "bottom rot" (???) 

And why, I have no idea...

{Don't you love my new little "treat" for myself of

that adorable little chicken salt cellar-- Right

below my Grand-mere's

 blueware jug that holds cooking

utensils???😉}

I am surprised that we harvested

that many tomatoes 

as we've had virtually no rain at all

this Summer 

and have had to rely on 

watering ourselves...

Here are my plants now 

and the new little

greening tomatoes...

Looks like more to come....

and

here too

Tonight, I will be using those red tomatoes to make my

"Pasta Julianna"

 --so dubbed by my DH...;)))

A delish dish using spinach and onions sauteed

in V. Olive Oil along with the diced tomatoes and

then mixed with a pkg. of

cooked Fusilli pasta...

served with grated Parmesano..

😋😋😋.

Y U M M E E !!!

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I hope you are enjoying these fleeting

(if still really hot) 

days of Summer; who can believe

it's already halfway through 

AUGUST?  

In 1 and 1/2 weeks the school year

will begin once again. 

And....

Despite being retired for over

20 years now, we still seem to follow the

school calendar...

Do you do that too????

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(still-spinning-euse)

P.S. 

All your comments went to spam--but i think it is fixed now...

USING IT UP, et al

I've decided on the raspberry fabric for the

first border; I want to add another

border that will be pieced...deciding

on a pattern 

and using scraps again...

Thanks 💋so much for all of you who 

gave me their favorite of the four

choices--I am hoping to incorporate

some of those other 3 fabrics in the

next border...

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File under "No New Projects--until 

I finish

my WIPS month":

Well,.....

My excuse for beginning this spider web

is that I am actually "using up" all

the leftover pinks and peaches from

"Sunrise, Sunset"!! 😁😀😂

instead of stuffing them in a bag

to be forgotten....

Really, I can rationalize almost

anything when it comes to 

"starting" a new "must make"

quilt.  😲

Also, I've made 3 other Spiders and

they were all gifted...and 

I ALSO  found a trove of 

LEFTOVER

Wacky Web papers from those 

projects--

So, in my mind, at least,

this is re-using and recycling

[and ... JUST A FUN project hahaha.]

These are such fun to sew...with the

limited fabrics leftover that went together

so well on SS, I figure they should all

play well together...

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I am continuing with

my hand quilting on Christmas Ojos--

on the last round of blocks--

not too many left;)))

But I am on a few days of rest 

for my hands and shoulders...

[hence another excuse--uh--  "need" to

make the Spider Web ;)))]

😉😊😍

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We finally got some rain overnight

.01" --big whup!! 💧North and West

of us received tons of rain...

It is a steamy 73.9 degrees

with a dewpoint

of 73.3--like a huge

SAUNA out there...ugh!!

Stay cool...

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(spinning-away-euse)

 

FALLING LEAVES, et al

 

I finished making the last two 

Maple Leaf blocks for my 

little Autumn table topper...

"Falling Leaves"

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Now to choose a border:

???????

Here are my four choices:

Which one do you like?

This print picks up a shade of that pinky 

color in the leaves and the whites...

[gives a bit of a forest feel?]

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This below picks up the golds...

and adds nice pattern near the 

whites...rich looking to me...

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This adds some of the light oranges and

the pink leaves...and is more modern looking

to my eye

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and here the raspberry color is featured...

such a yummy deep color that definitely

highlights those fruits...

I must admit I am at a standstill--I kind of

like them all ...for different 

reasons that emphasize various

colors in my leafy print...and 

provide different vibes...

[maybe leaning just 

a bit to the darker 

raspberry???]

I have more of the leaf fabric and would have

loved to make a lap quilt, but I am

staying with smaller pieces these days...

especially since 

I plan to hand quilt this one...

Let me know your choice...

thanks, ;))))

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(borders-borders-and-more-border-choices-euse)

P.S.  DH likes the gold...;)))

LAYERING, et all

 

"Gathered Blessings"

I finished  embroidering  and

have now bordered this piece 

for layering...

[the panel is by

Kathy Schmitz

which you can see 

across the bottom if

you click it]

This lovely cherries border fabric

was a gift from Wanda..

...thank you💗...

I have pulled this smaller piece

and the one below as my next

August finish those WIPs

projects.  I want to get them

ready for quilting...

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I call this "Little Handbaskets"

...

(Tom says : "Going to

H### in a handbasket"

haha always the comedian!]

I have yet to cut out

those green block fabrics

behind the bottom basket parts--

I will use my duckbills for that...

they were a Christmas gift long

ago from my Mom...

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We have been in a "bad air quality alert" 

from the Canadian wildfires here for

the past few days....and today the

skies are still clouded with smoke--

but there is no acrid smell today

so perhaps it is moving away....

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"Sunrise, Sunset" is all pin basted

and will await its turn for hand quilting

until I have finished 

"Christmas Ojos"

I am working on the outer row of blocks

the last ones;)))

Here is how the back looks:

I like how the pattern is coming out here;)))

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This is how things stand here right now...

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(gettin'-those-'WIP's"- moving -along-euse)