RESUMING , et al

 

                                                        Remember me?  Courthouse Steps>

I left off making these at 63; I ran out of the type of fabric scraps I wanted to use....

That was May 15th; today after some scrap and string sorting, I began again with

these two:

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I have four scrap bins of strings and chunks to continue with on my 

King-Size Quilt Journey...now the magic number has become TAH-DAH!!!

                                                          S I X T Y --- F I V E 

I need 100 to cover the top of the bed and then I will decide if I will make more

or add deep borders... 

[and why why why is this Freakin' NB dbl spacing???]

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ANYHOOOOOO...

For those of you who asked:

Here is Poor Butterfly in Pink's progress:

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Here is my usual morning place to work:

                                                               YUM----frothed coffee....

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I changed out my dining room wall hanging to "Fly Like an Eagle"

which looks Fall-ish to me...

I love this one...💖💖💖💖

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Stay safe friends, wear your mask....

Hugs, on a lovely cool Monday morning

Julierose, La Blageuse (Court-House-stepping)

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

"Fly Like an Eagle" is done--(sorry for the crooked pix--it is straight on the wall lol)

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And here is my new hand work for evenings....

Little Suffolk Puffs or Yo-Yos....all these are blues and I plan to add yellows to the mix.
                                                Easy and fun to make....;))))
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Still debating on borders for "Save The Wild Horses"....nothing looks quite right as yet....
am previewing this for a couple days.....

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Pink & Green (sort of looks Christmas-sey to me....) this has been my leader-ender....

These are all leftover (2.5" squares) from my postage stamp

swap of a few years ago...I have used most of the pinks and greens up now...

I am hoping to add enough borders to back my first postage stamp quilt which has been waiting for a backing for 3 years !!!! 

And so it goes...

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (..."I'm undecided now, so what am I gonna do??") -euse

COMING IN FOR A LANDING (A long story)

I spent the last 3 days turning in circles back and forth, back and forth --(ack!!).

I free cut those rounds from little 2" folded squares of freezer paper and trimmed the edge in an arc--to get those wonky circle-y shapes...

Lesson learned: It's ok for shapes to be wonky-- BUT not lumpy/bumpy (ugh!) --

On the first few circles though, I tried my old bugaboo-needleturn applique--
reasoning, how hard could it be?  Well, it defeated me yet again!! Plus
my undone funkified shapes were now all fraying like crazy after undoing them:
SO...
(humming: "But not for meeee..."  between clenched teeth! ;ooo) 

I  just said to myself, OKAY  
they will match my eagle's tattered beak and wing tips and 
left them there to remind me for next time--
THAT:  
I much prefer the freezer paper on the back, 
starching the seams first- method before sewing...
and proceeded to finish 
the rest using that method...

YET Another lesson learned: ...your finished shapes will only look as good as
your cut templates are.

All this from 10 little round-ish shapes...who knew???


This did me in for applique this time around and
as far as I was concerned I was D O N E  with anymore 
applique on this piece.
PHEW!!
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So here's my story re: Borders (I am long-winded today as always ;000)---

Eagle was on my wall RIGHT NEXT to my 3rd set of Chinese Coin strips and ..
And, all of a sudden I had an "ah-ha" moment..

why not use them to border eagle medallion style...
would they go?  Could I?

I had been looking up all the border types I could make, 
but--here these were 

RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF MY EYES!! 

SO why not???
Plus those roundish things picked up some colors in the coin strips, too....

SO..... I measured and measured and measured AGAIN
and  yes, 
I had just enough with only two little pieces leftover (about 4 little strip coin pieces) .
Hurrah...
then...I knew they needed some kind of separator strips and spied that
mauve floral...but
 that mauve, 
could it go with the red in the center..? And YES!!
Well I liked it..anyway...;)))))

SO: my first medallion was born...
{Madame Eagle-agreed--she like her surround...}

All I have to do now is sew on this lovely print--one of my very old fabrics...as the final border

and

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                                                          V O I L A !!

hugs,  Julierose, La Blageuse (wordy-euse);)))

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

Lessons learned:

1) Cut background block A LOT bigger than you think you'll need...because....

My eagle decided to spread her wings further and fluff her feathers out....and so, (sigh)
those borders had to come in to save the day...

2) "beaks, and tips and cuts in a hurry..." not good; slowly slowly ; and only clip concave
curves..
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She is a bit tattered at wing tips and her beak is a bit blunted ....I think she's a bit worn out from my gyrations....a bit frayed....lol --as am also   ;ooo

3) dark fabric + dark thread very hard to SEE--even with new lenses....and that lovely red background moves before your eyes...choose fabrics more wisely....

NOW:  Questions to take my time over...

What to add......
and do I trim out the base fabric or not ...

.for now, she is resting on my wall...and
I need to do more research.

She will be a patriotic wall hanging...and, with that in mind
I am longing to make some little 9 patches in a border surround...but, we'll see....
And I need a flag somewhere and some flowers...perhaps a little pot of flowers and a flag
at the bottom?? and some fabrics to lighten it up a bit, too...

Stay tuned....I am also resting, ya think???;)))

hugs to all, 
Julierose, La Blageuse (new applique-journey-euse)

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY

Getting ready to fly................................................

                                  HAPPY DAY TO ALL OF YOU CELEBRATING....

Hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (turning turning turning-euse)

FLY LIKE AN EAGLE...

Here is the beginning of my "Fly Like an Eagle" journey in applique.

I found this pattern in Sarah Fielke's book and loved its simplicity--uhhh..and also not a
lot of pieces for a neophyte appliquer...;}}} I will be showing how I do--warts and all..

You can see the blue starred fabric that will be Monsieur Eagle (L)...I was lucky to have found it and that cute red print in my stash....I don't have any patriotic pieces made, so this will be my 4th of July tribute...

I plan to do prepared applique as needleturn makes my stomach clench in knots...for some strange reason...;???)

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AND....
I am taking a break from the Coin Toss series (will be backing and quilting Midnight Garden
next--and pondering what in the heck to do with the other two sets that is different!)
Soooo,
In the meantime, ("...in between time, ain't we got fun..")

Here are the first 3 liberated baskets I've made: Fruits and Flowers

I am using up the last (sob, sob!!) of my beloved toile print as a background ....

On the left basket the handles didn't remain where they were told to stay--they bowed outside the edges (bad handles!! Naughty bias!!) and so I will applique a few leaves and cherries to uhhh ....cover up their errant ways...hahaha they will definitely be .......
                                    
                                              L I B E R A T E D....;))))

I have 3 more cut out and ready to sew...those handles really have a mind of their own...
but I think I can "Handle" (groan) them.....

Hope you are all enjoying this holiday...we are--I am so glad to have the
 hubster home....;)))
hugs
Julierose, La Blageuse (flying-euse)