SUNDAY SEWING, et al

 

It is  a "dark and stormy day" here.....

So....

"Dark Days" project came out of its closet of shame

where it has been hanging with all the other

UFO's for quite a while.....

And

I decided it definitely needed

 another panel on

the right hand side.

And, as I so often do, decided

to "go my own way" with it...

I have not been enamored 

of many of the K3N prompts for

my own piece idea...so....

I added this 41" by 8" strip

on the right hand side:

The suffolk puffs ( yo-yos) are some

vintage ones I got on Etsy

 quite a while back..

they are purples and blues...

For the next addition I added

four little 9-patches that I made

up from fabrics I had already used 

in the piece.

So far, everything is just pinned in place with the long

beige strip basted onto the backing...

(see the white peeking out? that is

the backing which will not 

show when I sew this on...).

I plan to extend those central 

radiating lines over and around the

new elements to pull this new part

more into the whole piece...

And most likely some more 

embroidery will be added...

Not sure yet, but I won't

worry about that until I

get to that point...

So today's a dark day out there--

and

we are watching the winds ramp up

and the rains come down...

Hoping the winds do not 

get too high as we are surrounded

with big, old oaks and ashes and

cedars on three sides....

👿👹👺👽

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My work in progress on our 

60th Anniversary fabric Journal project

now has the 5th page "base"

ready for embellishing:

This page represents our first year

of marriage when we lived in the 

Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts

where Tom got his first teaching job...

Grey Lock Mountain--is pictured here in

my old favorite batik from long ago.

We used to drive up to the top on what

was then just a dirt road to see the

three state view on sunny days...

At that time we lived in 

an apartment 

{pictured on the bottom right}.

My daughter, Candice, was

born there and I can recall, most

of all, taking her for long walks 

in the harsh Winter days and having 

to kick the snow out of in front of our 

Pram's wheels on our way to visit 

my mother-in-law's home which was

 about one mile from us...

I couldn't get over the fact that it

snowed EVERY night.

We had been fortunate enough to have been 

given this old English style, heavy sprung

Pram by the couple who were leaving the

apartment to live in their first house...

money was very tight in those days

and we felt so lucky.;)))

I will be starting to add the embellishments

this week a little at a time...

The moon is from part of the fabrics that

 Wanda so generously sent me...

I can foresee using a lot more in

these pages...(it will be so nice

to think of her when I look through

these pages....

thank you Wanda...

💜💙

Hugs to you all, stay safe if you are in

this storm's path...

Julierose, La Blageuse...

(hand-sewing-euse)