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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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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

NEUTRAL ZONE

WELCOME:                       Come into my sewing room...........................;}}}

Here are the latest neutral strippy blocks....

I just love how the grays and browns alternate  ....(the lower line of blocks are the latest additions
making the gray diamond shapes)..

Here are the other ones:


There are a few pops of oranges, and turquoises in here as my stash of neutrals is very small...so I am
stripping off sections from multi-colored fabrics to fill in...
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{After two days of migraines that put me to bed (ugh!!) I am finally able to sew
 and craft once again}

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AND now for my NEW daily "magazine" journal..........
for those of you interested in my other obsession...;~*)))...







  I tore out extra pages (so the binding
wouldn't break) and then prepared this
Sunset magazine for everyday junk-
arty-journaling about our daily lives...













My First spread....

                 Here's a little peek...sorry for the glare...into last Friday, Saturday and Sunday

[I am "harvesting" images from old magazines to illustrate daily events....]

I am thinking though that I will switch to a weekly two-page spread--for after all, our lives are
not chock-a-block with busyness like when we were bringing up our family and working...

I am finding this a nice alternative to just written journaling ...altho', i am
of course, continuing to keep my daily journal in my Franklin...and my Weeks.

Here are the Youtubers that I follow to learn about this:
Heidi Hornsbury, Dede Willingham, and Craftyhodges ...
(there are many others, but these are the ones I follow.)

I am happy to have found a new way to use-up my old scrapbooking ephemera,
washi tape, and stickers....which have been inundating my craft space....

Hugs, Julierose, La blageuse  (crafting-euse)


Friday, February 9, 2018

A SLOW TWO BY TWO

                                                                    Two blocks a day
                                                                     And
                                                                     I'm on  my way....;)))

             Waiting for my other fabrics to arrive....four more grays and four more browns...

           (The two on the right are the start of the third big block across)
I am planning 3 across and 4 down for a decent size lap quilt with added borders...

I am not sewing anything together until I make all 12 Big ones (48 little squares) to see how
they'll play together...

These surely mirror our skies and dark trees....

                                               It seems like we just get short bursts of the sun--
                                                                 just enough to assure us
                                                   that it's still up there.....;~{{...
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Company coming tomorrow , so will most likely not get to sew....this is a no deadline, slow project...

I hope you are all escaping the flu

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (in neutral-euse)😘