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Showing posts with label Comfort Cloth/Dark Days progress Block 2. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

DARK DAYS "2" continues, et al

 


HELLO AGAIN Everyone....;))))

Yup... 
the wonkiest log cabins I've ever made
above...
and all by hand and eye only...
tearing strips as I went...

[following "K3N Cloth Tales"' year long
Comfort Cloth videos on YT]

The catty-wampus cabins will attach 
to the January block like this:
↶↶↶↶↭↭↭
[I may add some sashing? ] 

Not sure yet and I still have 2 weeks
to finish the added fancy stitching 
and sort of "boro" style 
mending where needed : 
at the
wonky joinings...
on those little cabins....

[and speaking of "Wonky" --
if you need a good laugh go
to Youtube and put 
"Scottish Granny Wonky Donkey"
in the search bar for the cutest and
funniest video.  ]


I plan to extend the 
January block's radiating lines 
where they meet 
when I sew them
together...

It's pretty "dense" looking.....
But it is all a "learning" experience
isn't it....;)))

It will take me quite a while to
do stitching on these ;
my hands are much better, I
am happy to report; 
but I am 
trying to do short stints
 and taking
whole days off from working...
πŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€
I am really itching to just stitch
for hours, but 
no longer can I do that!!
I am just happy to be able 
to do a little
at all.

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Here was my poor Amaryllis
(that I forgot for a year+ in 
my front hall closet)
2 weeks ago:
↓↓↓↓
and here it is today:
↧↧↧↧
Definite progress.....;)))
I wonder if it will 
bloom at all???

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We are expecting a significant
(so the weather people say) 
snow event tomorrow--
so I did our weekly grocery run
this morning.--It was
super cold!!!! 

Hugs, Julierose,
La Blageuse
(slowly-stitching-along-euse)










Saturday, February 8, 2025

DARK DAYS , FEBRUARY'S BLOCK 2, et al


 
The Comfort Cloth prompt for
February is "Home".

[K3N Cloth Tales is hosting
this year long slow stitching
SAL]

I am doing wonky little log cabins....
set in two rows....
I just finished my 1st row row today...
[you can see I've set up the
next four little centers 
across the top....]

We have to leave a background 
border 
on all sides of about 
1.5"-2" for joining
the blocks...month by month...

K3N is doing her blocks scattered
"cattywampus" about her cloth using
wedge shapes where they join...

Well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, s i g h ...........

I began that way last Wednesday and 
by Friday had ripped them all out.
πŸ‘ΏπŸ‘½πŸ‘Ί
Working that way just made me 
SO
VERY
 ANXIOUS!! 

This is supposed to be a cloth
to calm you down when you are
working it; 
so,
 I decided to
do my blocks in normal--if a
bit wonky, rows,
I am just free cutting
my fabrics
as I work along to fit
So all the blocks vary in size...

The background is 10" x 18"
so about 1/2  the size of the 1st block
[which is 18"x18"].
See below
↴↴↴↴↴

I've begun adding some more 
stitching with radiating lines
on January's block...

I am using whipped 
running stitches...
and...
There is still a lot more 
stitching to
add onto Block #1...

I love using this Valdani thread...

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AND..
Can you believe that there are now
3 blooms and one bud still left
to open on my Amaryllis...
??????????
Here are a few shots.....


You can see all four above

Here, 3 have fully opened...
and the front one has a slight 
greenish tinge to it...

I really hope I will be able to save this one 
over the Summer to bloom
again next season.....it is so spectacular...

I hope you are all having a
wonderful weekend
Hugs, Julierose,
La Blageuse

(still-slow-stitching-euse)