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)