SANTA.......ANGEL?

         Angel..........................................& S A N T A 

This:

  







Does 



not 


go with:↡↡↡↡     

                                                                     This......;0000!!!!

My color choices just didn't make it.....way too dark for my liking....

But I got some good buttonhole stitch applique practice....and reversing templates,
as a few of these needed to be reversed-- (ask me, go ahead, how I found that out!!)

And I learned that  I am not overly fond of having to keep on changing
threads and bobbins....;000

So,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 I think I will put some borders on Santa and then back it with Angel.......
And call it a practice run.....
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On the Orange Front:

   I hand stitched the whole center during the Red Sox game (they won-- yay)
 and 
today, I will while away the afternoon finishing the blades...I just love Dresden
Plates...
this one is Improv, free form and "almost" a circle ;))) such fun...
I think I will be making an Improv Dresden in each color for RSC--if my
scraps allow--I may even have to make a tiny one...;)))

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I hope your Sunday is as pretty a day as ours is--sun shining--a bit nippy;
 but the wind is dying down so .............
not at all bad out there....

hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (rooting-for-the-home-team-euse)

                                

SANTA'S FRIENDS, ET AL

                 I HAVE finished the forest on my main Santa block  
               and worked a bit
                      more on the surrounding blocks...
The angel, two crescent moons, and a star are complete...

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I am finding machine buttonhole applique hard on my eyes despite my
excellent lighting...perhaps, because it's so new to me---maybe 
I tense up while I am sewing?  ??? ;00

Next I will work on other trees and houses.....perhaps next week...
Here is my new applique foot↓↓↓↓

                                   Now I can SEE what's going on...

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I need to make hubster a new lap quilt--his is 20 years old--and 
starting to fray....
I made it for him upon his retirement...has it been 20 yrs already???
Time does fly away from us....
Perhaps a log cabin in blues and whites...we'll see

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AND----FYI: on our home front:
Hubster had MOHS surgery this last Monday-- 
and I have had my Nurse's Cap on ever since...

The area  was on the side of his nose, and much deeper 
than expected--so the surgery was quite extensive; and 
he has both internal and external stitches the whole
length of his nose.. 
(not fun!!)
but, the good news is that  they were able to excise it all...;)))

As a result....
he has been pretty sore, generally uncomfortable, and wiped out...
But, today he is starting to feel better....:)))
stitches will come out next Monday--

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So limited blogging, sewing etc...going on here...

Hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (nursing-euse)