"HOME IS WHERE MY HEART IS" UPDATE

 

I've had a change of 💖about how

to proceed with my four pieces

celebrating our 60 years together....

I am going to make, instead of a wall hanging

a  Fabric Book...

I love working in that medium and

I feel these would be better

displayed in that type of

format.

And I want to add 4 more pages

displaying various themes that have

run through our lives together.

Here is the cover I've made to house

these pieces:

This is the front cover using my usual

scrappy crumb pieces and

featuring a little rosy birdie

[can you find her?]

and

the blue silk shantung fabric border is

made from the leftovers from a dress

my Mom made me for a dance

when I was in high School...

(I thought that bit of nostalgia 

would be perfect for this booklet.)

The back is the same:

Just using different scraps of fabrics...

And here is the interior:

A lovely leftover from my "Dark Days" project.

I have quilted the whole thing after sewing it

together envelope style...

My 8.5 x 10" pieces will fit just right...after

I trim them up...

Now.....

I am working on finishing up the slow

stitching and additions to this page 

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I added this little doggie to represent all the

dogs we've owned through the years...

And...

I've begun Kantha stitching on this section...

and generally invisibly basting everything

down...

A lot of the stitches 

are meant 

to show---

as on the doggie above...

I felt she just would melt into

the background without them...

the pieces being so busy and all...

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As Helga is set up now for quilting,

I may be pulling out older UFO's ready to

be quilted and work on them while

my quilting foot is on. 

[I think I've mentioned how difficult

it is to change this before so

will want to use it while in place.]

I've been resting my hands from quilting 

"Sunrise, Sunset" but hopefully this

weekend I will be able to resume 

that work...

Hugs, from windy SE CT,

Julierose,

La Blageuse

(busy-creating-euse)