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 madeup from fabrics I had already used
in the piece.
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)
