BACKS--or fronts???

 

Fiona's American

Girl dolly quilt

and

                                                               Willa's Dolly quilt

                                                          

            Here are the backs (or fronts??) of both that I finished yesterday:

                                                         ↧↧↧↧

Willa's

and

Fiona's

Can you see why I wonder which

they will think is the front???

Hahahaha

I hope to gift them for 

Easter, which, thankfully

occurs late this year....

Next is to cut batting...

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On today's menu

is Roast Chicken dinner!

Tom will help me to

get it prepared.

He makes the stuffing

and the mashed potatoes and

I do the gravy...

Y U M M Y!!

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I am hoping you find 

J O Y

in your sewing today...

💖💖💖

hugs, Julierose, 

La Blageuse

("A-Foggy-Day-in-Our-Old-Town"-euse)

GEESE IN THE SNOW

 

THE FIVE CENTER ROWS

of Night Flight

are done..

There are

six more rows;

3 on either side left 

to quilt...

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Here is the snow off of our deck...

So pretty on our cedars...

So far we've gotten about 6"

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Early Sunday dinner

was roast chicken with

all the fixin's 

😋😋

And

Tom is doing the clean up

for me...

💕👴😇 

I am starting to feel better

this afternoon...

my cold seems to be going away

Still taking it easy though...

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Tonight we will be watching the

Superbowl

(Did you know that

Tom Brady is 18 yrs older

than Patrick Mahones?) 

Should be interesting....

I hope you are all safe and warm

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

😷😷

 

MIRROR IMAGING

  Yesterday morning, sitting out in my spot on our deck, I worked on getting the
upper black x's part of my next butterfly in a mirror image-- Right and Left...
                  Just sayin'..........That is a bit more challenging than it looks...

And, you hawk-eyed followers may see that that I have colored in part of its
body using  my Prismacolor Premier pencil in Pomegranate.. 
                                                             ⇊⇊⇊⇊⇊

These are a few of  the complete set I own

from my coloring book days...

I first underlay with white; 

and then add a very light coat of the Pomegranate--

I am trying  to see if it makes

this butterfly part

stand out a bit more...

We'll see what this looks with the

deep maroon stitching over it...

But first I need to finish the black outlining...

Today, though, with our breezes 

and the showery weather 

it actually feels chilly 

on the deck 

so I will be stitching inside...

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FYI guys:

You may want to hop on over to 

Dawn's blog

to see what she has made

for a G I V E  A W A Y

Really perfect for Autumn...

;))))

She is an amazing crafter....

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And for you like-minded "foodies" :

Sunday dinner will be corned beef, cabbage and boiled taters...

Y U M M Y

Hugs to you all on this cloudy Sunday morning...

Julierose, La Blageuse 

(playing with 2.5" squares a bit-euse)

SUNDAY PUMPKIN, et al

                                                Sunday's ........ I N C H I E
                                        [seeing as I worked on this]
                                                     ↓↓↓↓

I prepped the pumpkin block on my Turkey-Lurkey wall hanging....

           I added some simple, round, cut out flowers, prim style
                [not fancy just letting the fabric do the work]
                        using my squishy pumpkin
                                as a vase...
                                           I just thought this would
                                           fill up the top portion where, 
                                           on the pattern, there are stars and
                                            some writing....
                                                which wasn't
                                                     how I wanted to go....

Those bias stems were leftover from another project that I found 
when I was in the re-organization mode---
I stored them in an empty drawer for
some unknown future use...
and here they are...
perfect for my idea.....;))))

Tonight I plan on hand sewing this down while watching
the Patriots/Steelers opener... (Go Pats!!)

AND....earlier this morning

I did some eye surgery and 
beak enhancement on my Turkey
couple....

the whirling Mme...

                                and do-si-do-ing Mr.  

Here we are joining in on the dancing⇣⇣⇣⇣

                               Don't you just love our costumes?  lol
                     {See that foot work--just like my turkeys hahaha}

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We had an early afternoon dinner of corned beef and cabbage with
boiled taters...I cooked the beef in the crock pot and then added
a ketchup/brown sugar/mustard sauce and popped 'er in the oven
for 40 minutes...it was so yummy and just spicey enough...

so mes amies, I hope your Sunday was as much fun as mine was...

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (turkey-trotting-euse)

CROSSED UP

                                                         Crossed-Up center is together...
                                                             I 💖 how it came out;
Now to sew the side triangles on...................
I don't really like the stark white, but nothing else goes either....
Sooo,
I am hoping I can use a quilting stencil to make a four-corner design....
and fill those corners with hand quilting....
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AND...here...........
another G R A Y Sunday is before us....

We will be watching The Patriots game this afternoon ...

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Dinner tonight will be  Thom's spaghetti sauce and meatballs with my
own homemade garlic bread....👫;))))yum..

I hope your Sunday is filled with quiet and sewing...

Hugs, Julierose, La blageuse  (Go "Pats"!-euse)

PIECES OF MY HEART

Here reside: the tiniest little pieces of favorites from yesterday and today...
As you can see the pickings to make these Ojos are getting smaller and
the variety is getting low; but I am determined to "use them up".
And give me a lap quilt where i can wool-gather and look back; each fabric reminds me of my younger days...everything is so connected.............

Some Mom picked out and some my friend MaryAnn gave me (we used to 
get together and trade 1/4-1/2 yds for variety.....

I have used the leftover sky fabrics deliberately through out this project
as it seems to bring back memories....now why and how do certain fabrics
do this?  This is one of the things I love about using scraps and strings and
bits and bobs...;))) 💓💔💕💖💗

(singing "Sunrise, sunset, quickly go the days....")

Here

are

some

bits
and bobs
and cutoff

ends 
for 

the


corners....



I haven't as yet had to actually sew
some together to lengthen strips--but that is in my future....

and here is how the pink/blues look against my ISF and ISR darker
blocks.....I think it looks so much better than the long strips---
but I just 💟💞💝 those strips--they will be another project....probably a 
coins type....

so many years collecting fabrics...and these are just pinks, wine shades,
and blues....and I have whole lot of stacks of uncut left......a whole
wealth of heart-rending fabrics...and even if some are more loved
than others--when you use cut-offs, they all merge into a new whole
heart......;))) 
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And a TAH--DAH----here:

               Yes,  I finished Fiona's Sugar Plum Fairy Diamond Painting--
you cannot see the sparkle in this photo, but it just glimmers 
and shines...

Both granddaughters play in their outside Fairy Garden a lot--so this will
be for those long winter "inside" days to remind them of Summer Days
to come...

I have set up and begun Willa's canvas....hers tends to use
lighter colors--more of a pastel re-creation....
I am really enjoying diamond painting...I find it so calming....
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Chilly as it is today, Big Thom will be bbq-ing cheeseburgers and I will
fry up (don't you just love fry-ups???) green peppers and onions 
in x-tra virgin olive oil to top them.....
and we will simply have baked beans to go
with on nice Water rolls....(mouth watering here😉😋)....

Hugs from chilly CT,
Julierose, La Blageuse (Remembering times past-euse) 

SLO-MOJO

This is where I left off in...................OMG:  in JULY --😓😕😢😞😞
see there, I'm out on our deck,
quilting away...meantime................in between time...........

my poor Pomegranates have languished in my tote bag
since then.  YUP, nada quilting.....

I guess I just lost my M O J O for this project. :<((( 

I visited Kathy's quilts this morning for her Slow Sunday Stitching 
posting and  immediately thought about Poms...
they are resting underneath a side table that
I face in our tv room...all the time...
and I have AVERTED my
                                                  👀 (eyes)

up until this morning. 

Kathy stated it well...we do get discouraged (or at
least I have) once in a while...
even though this is one of my favorite quilts...

So, today I am (seriously) going to pick it up 
(I can see the excitement shaking the tote bag over there 
as I write this lol) 
and just tell myself--
one row just one row.;}}}}
and see what happens.  While I watch the Patriots Game in here....

Thanks so much, Kathy for airing out this frequent quilting problem that
seems to  arise now and then...for me, at least....and cheering us on....
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Sunday dinner tonight will be Thom's (aka hubby, hubster, Dear One, 
Mr. Wonderful) marinara sauce and spaghetti noodles...so nice and light...
and a day off cooking for me YAY!!!
 (yesterday I made Bean soup for our dinner--which is a recipe with many
steps).
He claims his back (which he threw out last Tuesday night)
needs for him to move around and he has a "taste" for
marinara today...Right now he's on the heating pad and doing his computer
stuff--something about plane spotting and ADSB ...urgh!!👴

So you see, no excuses, I just need to get to that hand quilting...
RIGHT???......(stay tuned to see wha' hoppen ;}}} )

hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (slurping noodles-euse) ;)))

*Edited to add:*

2:00 p.m.:
Got a few rows done, anyway before my hands began hurting...
My little scissors magnet kept me company. About 1/3rd of little side triangle...

[Patriots ahead so far....;)))] 

SNAIL SUNDAY (and A Sad Tale)

Joining Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching...my "Snail" day...setting up the 2nd
set of side triangles for hand quilting....

You can see the 4 big triangles in the center are done....

I am sitting out on our deck for early morning coffee...ahhhh...
the air has finally begun to cool off and the humidity is tolerable...

I will be quilting in 20 minute segments out here today--until
1:00 Red Sox Game time...(we DO have NESN here* see below)

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Tonight's dinner will be bbq'd hamburgers on water rolls with cheese and sliced tomatoes (onions for Chef Thom) and I have  made my German potato salad 
to "go with" which is chilling right now...

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and now for your reading pleasure (?) :
                     "A SAD TALE OF WOE" follows 
                          (long story, be warned)*

As i say:          It is so great to be home! ;)))))
                       Herein lies the story why.....

 We had tickets for the Tanglewood Concert this past Friday night--and a reservation at Jimminey Peak Time Share to stay overnight 
and come home Saturday morning--a mid-summer treat...


                                          OR
                              SO WE THOUGHT:!!;(((
                      (File under "The Best Laid Plans")

When we got to the parking lot for Tanglewood at 6:00 to beat the crowds,
we were told to shelter in our car as we were in a severe weather threat...
we could not go in (even though we had reserved seats in the Shed 
for the concert, nor could we go to use the facilities;000...) 

So, we sat and sat in the heat and huge thunder boomers and chain lightning...for a whole hour....still no entry...;((((

and radar on Thom's phone showed storm after storm 
until after 10 pm....
So, sadly, we decided (like many others) to forego the concert 
and drive back to our lodgings...so depressing after a long travel 
day and much anticipation of a live concert....

But, hiking up our "doom and gloom" spirits........

We thought, well, we can sit and watch the Red Sox game in our
room --and have a snack and a beer....(and use the facilities!!)

Now, keep in mind this is Massachusetts after all--home of the Red Sox
.....And
nope--NO NESN  (their channel) --no game available...at all..........
Boooooo....

And so, we dejectedly
decided to just call it a night--and then--

found that the AC was SO LOUD and RIGHT by the bed; 
that 2 am found us up and wandering around--sleepless...
and not Happy Campers..(ya think?) 
SO...........
Right then and there we just looked at each other and began 
packing ourselves up and went home.

Thom drove in the teeming rain and foggy roads--and just exhausted 
and disappointed we arrived home--(of which it is said: "there's no place 
like home"-----and how true is that!!)

And so ends our travel saga-nightmare, ....
What a debacle...plus it wasn't $$$ a cheap getaway either....the room was
expensive and the concert tickets were front section!! gulp!!$$

No more overnights for us...we will be doing day trips for the foreseeable
future.......we are too old for this folderol!!
(If you read through this depressing tale, i commend you;)
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Hugs, 
Julierose, La blageuse (glad to be home-euse)

LEFTOVERS

 

                The start of our leftover pork fried rice dinner on this gray gray Sunday....

I use chopped, cold roasted pork, onions, celery and shredded carrots and
 pre-cooked white rice...with:

these additions; frying the pork bits with the Five Spices in olive oil until browned and
then adding veggies .  Lastly the cold rice, mixing well with Soy Sauce and Toasted Semsame Oil..........

and you get this:

A lovely "gibbilot" of tastes--set to simmer on lowest heat for about 45 minutes--
checking often to see if any liquid is needed...

one of our favorite Sunday leftover meals...

Luckily, Thom is the "Leftover King" here and often makes his own mixtures with various
leftovers, too...{waste not, want not--is that you Grand-mere, 
reminding me up there?} ;)))

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And here are the (sad) leftover Easter tulips....

these were a vibrant ochre with orange and pale green streaks...I plan to Winter
them over...and I even like how they faded into these....

these leftover tulips started out a lovely pale lavender;
 from my daughter for Easter...

Hoping I can save the bulbs and replant them in containers for next Spring;
I cannot put them outside as the deer consider them their own special
dessert !!! ;(((

I hope your Sunday (no sun here though, today!!) is a restful one...

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (in my "cheffette's" hat-euse)

SUNDAY DINNER, CHEZ NOUS

                 In our family this is called "American Chop Suey" and it is delish...
                       The patient  requested this for our dinner tonight...;~))) .

It is a mix of browned ground sirloin [with any xtra fat drained off],
 macaroni(cooked ahead al dente about 5 min.-- as it finishes cooking in the pan),
 onions, one can of diced tomatoes, a bay leaf, pinch of basil and tarragon, and extra tomato sauce or water if it gets too thick--as it simmers for about 1.5 hours. ) 

Both my Grand-mere and my Mom made this on a regular basis...all we add is a
garlic bread and we are good to go...

I hope your Sunday dinner is delightful--we are not football fans so we will be watching
something on Acorn tv this evening...with our tummies full of yummy-ness....😋.

hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (wearing her chef's hat-euse)

ON A COLD, GREY SUNDAY

A cup of "Joe" and a few of these going on this morning.  My little hexagon sewing kit sits on my lap, and I am slowly basting those blue hexies over their freezer papers. I am now able to baste about 10 before I "feel" it.  the Comfort Cool hand wrap helps me a lot.

In my mind I am wandering through the hills and valleys of Hexagonia, singing "I Love to go a-wandering, along the mountain track; and as I go I love to sling my backpack on my back!"  Backpack full of what else?? Hexagons , of course...songs for all occasions is our watchword around here.  Sometimes I think our life is like a comic opera..... LOL!!!

Later, this morning we are taking a jaunt out to our local Benny's --I need one of those blue speckled small roasting pans--I totally wore out my first one--it didn't owe me a thing--49 years of good service! 

 I am making pot roast, mashed potatoes with gravy and a salad for dinner tonight . I have also been craving pumpkin pie--I guess I am more than ready for Turkey Day..

.What are you making for  your Sunday dinner??? 

Hugs to all , enjoy your day, Julierose, La Blageuse