MY READING LIST, et al

 

Here's my stack of books to be read...

Being an avid reader, I like to have

a nice stack ahead...

{click to enlarge if you wish}

And...

right now I am reading:

I think that this "44 Scotland Street" series

is so much fun...I will be ordering

the next two when my stack gets

too low...😊😂

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Here is the finished 5th page 

of my 60th Anniversary Fabric Journal:

[I am going to have find a good 

title for this:  perhaps--- 

"Through The Years?"]

The crocheted lacey bit across the bottom

is a piece left over from 

my Grand-mere's

work that I coffee dyed...

I am finally happy with 

how this

came out..

representing our home 

in the Berkshires;)))

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A N D...

This is what's going into the oven

this morning:

All the leftover bread crusts and stale

hot dog/hamburg rolls all chopped up,

[I hate food waste of any kind!!]

sprinkled with olive oil and spices.

These will go into a 250 degree 

oven for one hour to crisp up;

 then cool completely

before I store them in jars to be

used on our salads...

Y  U  M  !!!!!

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We do have a little bit of color

from our one little maple tree

in the back off our deck:

I really just love that reddish-pinky color and would love to find

fabric in those variegated colors..... 

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This morning after my 25 minute treadmill

walk, I sat down and finished Kantha 

stitching the 9 patches on my

"Dark Days" piece....

Now for the yo-yo's and little florets...

It is coming along....

We are enjoying a beautiful Autumn day here

with a 60 degree temp and sunny skies...

💛I do love Fall...💛

😎😍

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(hand-stitching-&-reading-away-euse)

"DARK DAYS" FINAL SIDE, et al

Above right is that side's piece first plan...

nine patches and suffolk puffs..

Now that side has become...

↧↧↧↧

I added little florets all along the

way to fill in those larger spaces and

I have stitched them all down...

And begun my Kantha stitching for quilting on this piece...

I am using light lavender and  pale beige threads

to go all along the whole piece...so that they

blend quietly into that background piece...

Here I am set up on my dining table--

which these days has become another

work station for me --using my old sweater

blocking board to protect the table...

.

I love how the Kantha stitches puff up

those vintage yo-yos a bit 

for some more 

texture on this piece...

This stitching will take a while at the

slow rate I am working--

😪

Well...after all, it is

SLOW STITCHING.

isn't it  😇😉.

And...FYI

Below is a picture of K3N's 

most recent prompt for which

I have substituted my 

suffolk puffs and little florets...

I love this series of prompts as Kathrine 

(at K3N Cloth Tales on Youtube)

always has wonderful explanations 

of how and also why she chooses them.

There is always so much information

to take in about stitchery in general...

very inspiring...

I had an enforced break from following 

 these prompts in her SAL

when I contracted Lyme and

 Anaplasma diseases and 

went into hospital..

So, I am picking up this project

 now that

the leftover symptoms have

mostly disappeared--

but every once in a while .....

like yesterday as an example......

😕😷

they return and I am laid low once again...

Thankfully that recurrence 

 has gone down in 

both frequency and length...

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It is one beautiful, warmish day here

at the House on the Hill.

I hope you are enjoying your

Sunday day of rest...

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(stitching-away-euse)