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Shoreline, CT, United States
I would love for you to join me (a retired senior)in my zany crafting adventures with quilting (waaaaay too much fabric); scrapbooking (will I ever catch up?); redwork; counted cross stitch; crossword puzzles; reading; and cooking.
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Sunday, February 8, 2026

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)