BATTING BOOK, et al

 

"Strawberry Moon" page↑↑↑

I am starting to sew my pages together

in my batting book:

this photo shows the backs of two

pages sewn on the back of

what you see here...

[can you see the stitching?]

Then....I will

place these two 

together like so.....

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and whip stitch them together on 3 open sides

[top, side and bottom]

and----VOILA!!

A page with two sides sewn is born...

;)))

Here are two that I have sewn :

See how nicely they come together???

These are 

"Japanese Spring Moon"

pages...

Once I have finished stitching on pages,

I can then sew them together...

Here is "Strawberry Moon" 's

facing page that appears first

above on this post...

I started adding some beads

and sari silks ruched up to 

finish this one off...

It represents the ocean waves 

under cloudy skies...

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I am working to finish "Black Hole Sun" 's

"Won't you come

Wash away the rain?"

page...

The white stitching and silver beads  

are the rain--

and the blue chain stitches are

the emotional whirlpool...

Here they are together...

They are waiting to be sewn to the 

backs of finished pages..

(as explained above)

These are my "Summer Ocean Moon" two pages 

that I still need to stitch and

embellish further...

for now they are just basted in place...

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And in my Lego Project:

I now have 12 slabs --

11 on the wall here

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and 

I've begun to trim the 12th one  here

[approx'ly 11.5 wide and 12 long]

I still have a few 1.5" strips 

left--

We shall see what I can do with these...

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Not a whole lot of variety....;(((((

That container in the back

was overflowing

when I began...

So this is where things stand as of today...

I have taken the weekend to rest up and

hope to continue doing work on

both projects this week...

Hugs on a lovely coolish, sunny day

Julierose

La Blagueuse

(slabbing-and-stitching-euse)

 

SLAB-A-THON, et al

 

Ten of these slabs/blocks done

so far....

I have more to go in my "slabbing" spot below:

I have enough for for 3 more already sewn

into strips and

plenty of 1.5" strips ready to be sewn.  

No idea how many I'll end up with ...

😣

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On my Batting Book front:

"Won't you come

Wash away the rain?"

page is coming together...

S  L  O  W  L  Y.....

Resting hands today after

a week's worth of sewing...

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On the homefront--

My daughter, Candice, is coming down this

afternoon with her new "Friend" 

(Jeff, whom we've not met as yet)

  to go to a  Concert at McCook Point Park

this evening...

and they will stop by for a visit beforehand.

I went out this morning to market and

got some appetizers to serve.

Our weather has been really superb;

definitely deck sitting weather...

a nice change...

Hugs for a great weekend,

Julierose,

La Blageuse

(lego-ing-euse)

"BLACK HOLE SUN" WIP...et al

 

"Black Hole Sun" batting page

in progress...

Here is the lyric I am 

interpreting:

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["Black Hole Sun , won't you come,

and

Wash away the rain..."]

I slow stitched the rain in the

gray section above 

to give it more texture for 

that lyric;

and

I couched golden silk ribbon

around the meeting of 

black hole and sun

which emphasizes the black hole

better, I feel....

And I  free-hand stitched

the title "Black Hole Sun"

around the top

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The facing page will be some sort of

rain and whirling eddy representation...

I am still thinking this through...

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Here are a couple of photo shots from

Youtube videos showing concerts 

with Chris Cornell performing

with Soundgarden...:

And

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And....

Here are my first two

rough lego slabs...

uncut and un-ironed

and just sewn together...

[and not all that straight either!!!]

;((((((

;))))

But I love the randomness

that comes out of 

my "cut-as-you-go" method.

[Approx 11" wide by 14"-16" long)

I plan on cutting squares--

and I am

still deciding on final sizing

for these.

It took longer than I thought 

to sew these together.

👀👀👀

Above is about 2 hrs work...

😣

I think this will be a 

l o  n  g

project...

And,

I do need to cut more of a variety

of 1.5" strips to work with.

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I am happy to report that our weather has

cooled down considerably and the

humidity leveled off enough early

this morning so we could have our coffee

out on our back deck...YAY!!

Hugs,

Julierose,

La Blageuse

{happily-stitching-away-euse)