JRJ PROGRESS, et al

 

I've sewed all the precut all blues 

strip sets I cut yesterday 

plus 4.5" sq inserts into rows...

I used this chart from Rose's tutorial

below:::

⇊⇊⇊⇊

Each row adds up to approximately 42";

and this chart is so easy to follow 

when using her precut amounts...

Thank you so much for this wonderful

tutorial, Rose; I really am enjoying

working on this...;))))

I decided to use the Fern batik print

instead of a varied charm pack..I've

had that Fern-ey batik print for 

yonks in my stash!! And

my idea is:

 blue skies and 

Spring's emerging ferns..

🌿🌺🌱🌷🌹

[Ah Spring--I need you soon!!:)) ]

PLUS.....

I have enough strip sets cut

to make a 2nd quilt 

the same size...with my 

leftover cuts...

So, TWO quilts from one jelly roll...

well worth the time and effort for me...

{uh, have you checked the jelly roll prices

lately?? I mean really??  $$👿😕👺👹}

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We will be having a lunch/dinner

special today and 

Le Chef Tom😇 

is making his Swedish Meatballs

over noodles....

No cooking for me today--

yaya!💃

So, I had plenty of time to sew and

sew and sew and sew.....

😀😁😂😄

 

I am having a cup of tea and resting

my shoulders after that workout.

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse

(jelly-rollin'-euse)

JELLY ROLL JIVE JOURNEY, et al

 

Yesterday I opened my very old  blue batiks 

jelly roll; (click to see color chart)

and separated all the shades 

using 

↧↧↧↧

Rose's  published tutorial on the Moda website...

and separated and cut per instructions...

And this morning....

I sewed that l o n g --l o n g-- long

first row following her instructions...

I am a bit "squirrel-ey" after that

sewing stint--but, I did take a couple of

breaks and used pen and paper to

check off where I was.

P H  E  W  !!!!

Tomorrow I shall iron all those seams open...

[and then most likely take a little nap;)))]

I am using this jelly roll as a "test run"

before I use my cherished 

"Whimsey Wonderland" jelly roll and

charm pack...

I need to SEE 👀👀👀

how it turns out...

I made a regular jelly roll race 

with the cheddar and blue roll

and it's okay, but not really 

to my liking:

It's okay, but I don't like how the colors

all got "glommed" together...👿

I may cut this into placemats....or

something...

😥😩😬😭

S  I  G  H

Anyhow, I began searching for different

ways to sew a jelly roll after this..

and one 

without a whole lot of cutting 

because

I feel if you are using a pre-cut 

why

cut it a lot more????

and...

I came up with Rose's tutorial.

I saw the lovely strippy quilts she had

made on her blog...and felt I would

like to try to make one for myself.

My own lap quilt which I have used

for 12 years is beginning to really show

its age....so, I want another for

my daily use...

At first reading of her tutorial I was all "at sea";

but after  CAREFUL re-readings a few

times I began to understand it better.

And so, this is a test case in progress...

STAY TUNED....

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Snow Days

Schools closed both yesterday and today...

We got 20+" from the blizzard!!

Tom pushed the snow away from our sliding

glass door and our front and garage doors..

that made us feel better until

and our plow guy could come and clear

 the driveway and our front walk.

Our street has only had one plow run and 

our Town crew is pretty pressed to get all

our streets cleared out...I hope the 4 of them

were able to spell each other...

You can see how the snow drifted

right up to our windows here,,,

It is still only in the high 20's today --so not much

melting going on despite the bright sunshine...

AND......

The forecast is for more snow tomorrow...

will this Winter ever ease up?????

It's been a good ten years since we've had

to deal with these snowfalls...

I hope wherever you are if you had to deal

with these blizzard conditions that you all

came out safely...

hugs, Julierose

La blageuse

(jelly-rolling-euse)

VINTAGE CARAVAN JOURNAL, revisited

 

In 2024 I joined in with Kristina's Shack on  YT 

to make a caravan journal glue book...

When we were a young family we went 

camping for our vacations...

Altho' we were "tenters", we always

wanted to own a small travel caravan...

Above is the front cover of my Boho-Style 

Dream Caravan Journal

and 

here is the back cover...

I began working on this in 2024 and want to finish it up...

Following are some of the pages I've finished 

representing my imagined 

"Life on the Road";)))

[some of you long time followers may recall these....]

Here is my imagined sleeping area with a 

comfy hammock and a little window 

to look out of...

and

And, what is a camping journey without a stop at 

the oceanside at sunset????

Meeting up with the "gals" for a beach day....

Everyone coming together for a group party...

I plan on working on a few more pages to finish this

journey in the camper of my dreams....

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Here is a shot from our driveway camera

👀☃⛇

It is 6 p.m. and the snow has just 

begun to come down here...

we are all cozied up and ready for

the coming blizzard conditions...

Stay safe and warm

Hugs, julierose

(dreaming-of-caravan-travel-euse)

SUNDAY STITCHING, et al

 

Here are the 2nd and 3rd pages in my 

[#Roxy's Journal of stitchery Vol 9" on YT]

Fabric book... 

a Dark  and sad page..😪

.

"Mi Corazon Rota" = my heart is broken

in Spanish.

I am using the story from the novel:

"Love in the Time of Cholera"

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

for the month of February's pages.

I have just finished 

basting everything down 

and am beginning to 

whip stitch the bird 

representing love 

flying away beyond reach

in the night sky...

💔💔💔

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Our weekly #Hillside Heart"  [YT]

prompts this time were:

"Dog and

Friendship."

Here is my interpretation using an 

old  family photo along with 

magazine images,

inks, and a circle stencil.

I used leftover fabric to make the

little tabs that came 

from scraps I used under my 

machine sewing needle...

hence all the stitching....

😄😇😍

This one was a lot of fun to make...

a "happy page" ;)))))

{it's funny that when I first get

the prompts I wonder how in the world I 

will be able to use both on one spread...}

This one is  a very simple 

spread on one page.

 The old family photo sits on top of

my prompt card and slips into the

bottom page pocket made from just

folding the edge of my own 

teabag stained paper over.

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We are watching the Luge Event 

in the Olympics right now...

relaxing after a light lunch...

Tonight's dinner will be a 

a very simple one:

An omelet with

 peppers and onions,

two strips of crisp bacon each

and toast with jam...

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Tomorrow noon my 

daughter and her SO 

are dropping by for lunch with us

after going to a local concert

tonight nearby...

I will be making my own 

minnestrone soup,

a green salad, and 

serving snowflake rolls

with cheesecake for dessert...

(yummmummmm)

My kind of meal..;))))

Hope you are enjoying this 

long weekend...

  

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(stitching-and-crafting-euse)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

 

MAY YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY FILLED

WITH

L O V E 

AND 

CHOCOLATES

:))))))

hugs,

Julierose, 

La Blageuse

(yumm-yumm-euse)

PAPER CRAFTING--WEEK 5

 

I made a few dangles for my "#Hillside Heart Prompts"

Journal Craft-a-long...

Here is Caroline's YT page...

Every week she picks two "heart" prompts from

suggestions we followers have sent in 

to her and some of her own, too..;)))

This week's were:

Ballarina

and 

Mother Earth..

We are to use them together

which makes for very free

pages...;))))

Below is my interpretation

of the two prompts 

using mostly magazine images that

I've searched out

from my magazine stash...

[Ballarina was really tough to find...]

I laid down various scenes of earth 

and then 

added the images that I felt

symbolized both prompts...

The "Quiet" card flips over to give

this week's prompts...

When my hands need a rest from stitching 

paper crafting is what I turn to..

💚

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We are still pretty much snowed under here, 

but today with a 33 degree temp there is

melting going on...thankfully!!!

hugs, Julierose,

La blageuse

(paper-crafting-euse)

IT'S A FLIMSY--ALMOST, et al

 

Baby, Baby is a flimsy--

it just needs borders now, ;)))

And now,  I really wish I had

situated the two orange blocks 

better... ;(((((

Perhaps one on top 

and the other on the bottom?  

But, I am NOT taking it

all out.

N O P E !!!!

And....

Here is the fabric I've chosen

from my stash

for the borders

↴↴↴↴

It is an old fabric I found [hidden deep in 

my stash] and the only one

I own that even comes close to being

in the same style as the 30's blocks...

I do love all the little hearts on it; it is from

the days when I first began to quilt... 

so happy I somehow kept it when I

did my de-stash last year...

;)))))

I really don't know if there is enough to go

all around, so if not I will use it on top and bottom

and use the rest of the green for the sides...

Isn't this a cute fabric?

See, now I realize this is not my

usual style of fabric, but I do 

L💚ve this print a lot...

and here it is in another colorway

...along with such adorable strawberries,

butterflies and perky yellow flowers:)))

Should I, when I next purchase fabrics, 

think about these types of prints???

I don't know...they would make a really

cute "I Spy" quilt for yet 

another dreamed-of great grandchild.

😀🙆😊

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I have finished the cover of 

my little February fabric booklet

["#Roxy'sJournalofstitchery" on YT SAL

that I am participating in this year]

My chosen book is 

"Love in the Time of Cholera" 

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

It is written in the magical realism style 

and features lost love, romance and

a family generational story.  

Giving me plenty of scope for images,,

I used a piece of my own hand woven strips

on the front cover,

and hand dyed linen 

for the back cover with

a sewn in beaded spine...

All very "raggy" and raw edged...

symbolizing the "rawness" of the

emotions in this novel....

The [3 signature] pages that I will be

sewing onto

are made of white flannel--

very easy to needle through...

I am working on Page one right now...

featuring the heart and

my embroidered french knot flowers..

The fabrics are invisibly basted down 

and whip-stitched in place 

ready for my Kantha stitching 

which I have just begun--

these stitches represent

the tears of the lonely lover...

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Are you watching

 the Olympics, 

any

of you?

🏆🎿

We are: saw figure skating

giant double slalom and

men's downhill so far...

Hoping that curling will be available for

us to see at a decent hour--not

3 a.m.!!!

hugs, Julierose from super-cold 

House on the Hill,

[0 this morning with a 

"feels like" of -12!!]

La Blageuse

(stitching-euse)

BABY, BABY, et al

 

I finally decided on white-on-white for sashing strips with

dark green cornerstones...

Only the top row has the sashing strip sewn to it

the 2nd and third rows only have their white sashes.

and are not sewn together.

Here is a closer view of that green cornerstone...

And below I  have set up the sashings and

cornerstones for the next row and top and bottom...

I have yet to cut out the borders--which will be more

of the same...top, bottom, left and right...

I only have a teeney, tiny sliver left of my 

white-on-white fabric...literally a smidge!! 

Here is that Smidgen

↓↓↓↓

I really thought I was going to run out!! 

Needless to say, I just ordered 2 yds of

replacement white-on-white....and only 

because I like it better than plain 

white in my pieces...

[ X-my-💙---no more fabric buying for

the foreseeable future here.!!]

;)))))

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Here is my finished Sentimental Scroll

on its home Bobbin...

Surrounded by the rest of my bobbin family...

I plan to make a smaller one next...

a sit-and-watch-tv-one...simple

running stitched...

I have one more large bobbin and

I plan to make another scroll 

later on this year....

Here it is partially unrolled on my dining table

I just love that you can unroll it and then roll it right

back up --so fun!!!:)))

It is too long to capture in a photo--some 70" in total...

Here is a close up of the closure--a shell button 

and white sari silk to wind around:

I really loved working on this and

 now my Grand-mere's 

lovely pieces have a home

;))))).

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Be sure to stay safe and warm if you find yourself

in the path of this Siberian Cold Front 

bearing down 

upon us this weekend....

☃⛄

⛇⛇⛇⛇

(I am a bit tired of snow

right now. hence the

black snowmen!!..)

hugs, Julierose,

La blageuse

(Working-with-Helga-euse)