UFO: "I'VE NEVER BEEN TO PARIS"

 

This is an older UFO-- a table runner..

It has many scenes from France and

Paris in bits of leftover fabrics...

All layered and ready to be pin basted...

The  3rd OJOS down contains a 

charming French girl cycling...

[click to enlarge]

Here are some of the charming scenes

along the sides:

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These are all on either side of the

central blue-ish OJOS

I thought the strip below this scne

 looked like 

watery waves...;)))

A lovely windmill --

Could this be Arles???↑↑

A lovely rural scene...

I really recall enjoying making

 the long side strips

sewn on muslin strips; I began in the

centers and worked up and down

placing the French countryside scenes 

here and there...what fun😊

And

I used up a whole lot of very old

fabric from my early 

quilting

days...

I think this one will be hand quilted:

{with a few vertical and 

horizontal holding 

lines done on the machine}

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I still have a whole lot of

smaller project UFO's in 

various stages of finish.

This one called my name 

today and it is ready for

pin basting on my dining table 

sweater blocking mat...

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The sun is actually out 

this morning again--

yesterday it lasted until

noontime and then those

clouds massed in from

over the ocean...

AND

It is 44 degrees...

N I C E !!

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse 

(Je-besoin-de-finis-euse)

[SP??? I am forgetting my

French these days with

no one to speak with since 

Mom passed ;((( ]

RAINY FRIDAY DOINGS

                                        Friday morning coffee hour.....

S L O W L Y hand stitching on my piece....one stitch at a time...

                                Re-visiting my favorite fabrics 

                    This is called "I've Never Been to Paris"

            [Though, my hubby has been 4 times--while in the Service--
                               but that was "BJ" {before Julierose} ;))))]

                The center block is almost totally stitched...except for the 
                                    very right top corner....
                 Not in a hurry, just enjoying the journey.........

AND
Here is the reverse (hence the title):

                  I love this kind of slow sewing....so relaxing AND.....
this is such...................
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A wonderful change from my wayward curves who are--I swear!--
moving around (snake-like) on my design wall 
weaving and bobbing
all night long...

                                       



 AND
generally making me Dizzy and

                                        CRAZEE!! 
I hear them....doin' the
Holly -Golly, the Boo-ga-loo, 
I think the
TWIST is their favorite....;)))

I mean, really, who can even sleep
they fill my dreams..... 

                                      






Some of them even
                             JUMPED 
right
                             OFF

the wall!!!!;0000 (Pins scattered all over
the floor)...now how DID they do that????





Do you ever wonder WHY you started something? Why in the world???
What WERE you thinking???

NOW that----
                    is the great unanswerable question of my day.....

hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (watching and waiting-euse)

"I'VE NEVER BEEN TO PARIS"

A FLIMSY:                   "I'VE NEVER BEEN TO PARIS"

Stage One: just side borders---not enough...so I added a bottom and
a top strip using more Van Gogh fabrics pictures in the centers....

AND this cute print of a Parisienne....(keeping in the Van Gogh mode)

                               La Mademoiselle De Paris...
                                           avec un beret

                           Parapluie..(umbrella in the rain)

                            Tres Chic  ....rain never stopped a shopping spree.

I so enjoyed utilizing these 3 leftover blocks (who would have thought
               they would turn out to be my own dream of Paris???)

This is what I love about working with quilt fabrics in a free way....without
a net (pattern) so to speak....

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This quilt is both a "strip" quilt and a "coin" quilt (what do you 
say Ann? click to go to her blog).

I love using long strips of muslin to sew on...
I got that bright idea from looking through a book by 
Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell titled: 
                                                   "Quilting...just a little bit crazy" 
which details methods of Crazy Quilting...
(I bought this book of instructions to help making my own little 
Crazy Quilt hanging last Summer)-- AND
right before I fell asleep the other day.............. I thought:

                                      WHY NOT???? 

This is why I L O V E, love, {heart} my quilting books; 
you always find something to use as a  springboard 
for your own pieces; even if it's a method, exact copy or 
simply an extension of a nebulous idea swirling around in your 
brain.....
SO....................................from this:

                                                     
                                                  TO THIS:

And...
hubster wants me to use this as a wall hanging; so I will now have
to choose a dark binding I think;  I don't want to lose those edges of the light strips too much....

BACK into the stash--and FYI:
this was all made from fabrics on my shelves...how
great is that...;))))) 
(and in 20 minute segments, Cathy! click to go to her blog)
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This won't be the last of these blocks either--I have 4 more to make into something....(like I've said before, I always make many more than I need as
you never know which ones will work well together in this scrappy style).

I have no idea where they will take me...but I am excited about strip quilting in this manner...and my next journey....

Hugs to all from hot and sultry SE CT
Julierose, (La Blageuse-Francaise)