FIVE BOUND, et al

 

First piece bound:

Here is "Falling Leaves" all bound now

and hanging on the front of my 

Grand-mere's old dresser.

I found a remnant of this lovely lavender

hand dyed for the border in my stash...

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It picked up the lavender floral in that print

perfectly--serendipity...;)))

And

No: 2:

"Little fans" with a binding in 

variegated blues; this was a leftover

piece in my binding box!! 

No: 3

below

"Little Baskets"

bound in greens

and

No" 4

"Easter Basket"

again I found leftover binding

that moved between

blue, greens and purples...

And last, but not least!! 

No: 5

An older crumb-sewn

Christmas table topper

This one is bound in a little holly fabric

below is the reverse--

one of my all-time favorite Christmas

fabrics:

You can see the holly binding 

better here...

I still have two more to go, but I do want

to hand quilt them after I finish with

quilting the "Sunrise, Sunset" 

sashings and

border areas...

So they will be for next year....

It was really nice to have all these 

leftover bindings to work with...:)))

I still have a lot of small pieces waiting

in line, but for now I am going to 

concentrate on finishing up

"Sunrise, Sunset"..

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On my 60th fabric booklet --

I finished up the next

two pages:

Here is the Berkshires' page:

The crocheted lace on the bottom is from my Grand-mere

that I tea dyed...

This page represents the early years 

we spent there

nestled in the mountains...

AND

Here is the first beginning of our trip page

to our seacoast home

where we have lived since.

You can see here everything is 

still pinned in place. 

The golden sari silk represents

our route to the seashore...which

is represented by that 

ruched silk ribbon and the

old blue silk fabric from a dress 

my Mom made me...💓

And here is the final page below

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This details our trip and also my daughter's birth in the Berkshires

and my son's birth here, where we live now...

The center tan portion is all Kantha stitched...

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So, this is how I have spent 

my time away from

blogosphere....

That, plus thinking a lot about what

direction I want to move in

for the coming year...

I really do miss working on big quilts....

I feel that so many repeating blocks 

lend themselves so much better 

to that size...and not

to smaller pieces in general...

that is where things stand for now...

hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(slowly-hand-quilting-euse)