RSC, FINAL SATURDAY

                                                              Ojos Di Dios  (16 blocks)  ↟↟
                                               

                                                    "Verticality" and Flying Geese ↟↟

                                                                 Crumb Blocks ↟↟

AND...............................↡↡
                            "Maru-Gata Kimmi" still in progress:↡↡↡↡

                           These are my results working 
                              with my March Teal scraps.

I haven't finished trying to get the 1st threesome 
together in some kind of bigger piece; I  and will work on 
that these last few days of March...

I will be joining with Angela at Super Scrappy for our last
teal get together for the month...come and 👀👀 what everyone
has accomplished....
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"Mask Making" interrupted my Teal work...
But I was able to make everyone in my family a mask--
12 in all--I made ones with ties and cut, ironed (a lot!)
and sewed the tie bindings which took a lot of time.👀😏 

I mailed them off yesterday afternoon...
at least I felt as if I were "DOING" SOMETHING...😕
This whole c-virus makes you feel so out of control--
at least it does us..

We are sheltering in place except for needed
grocery forays...
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Tonight Thom will be making his spaghetti sauce for dinner 
and
then freezing the leftover sauce for a future meal. 

We've been doing a lot of that to try to stretch our 
food supply...eating smaller portions, too...but

have I dropped any "lb-age"?????
NOOOOO of course not...😒
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Hope you are all faring well during this troubled time...

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 👋waves from Julierose, La Blageuse (sewing-euse)

SPRING SUNDAY MEMORIES

                     
                                 I put my "Spring Baskets" up in my dining room...
                                                  hope "springs eternal" ;}}}}

I love this little improv piece--the last one I made before Mom passed away.........
She really loved it, too....

Loving this toile
for the background

                                            Spring blossoming all around

I raw-edged appliqued a few fruits.......↑↑↑a luscious peach,

a lovely pear
and some leaves.....









and

                                     some ripe red cherries.....

I just love that print I found for the baskets...so soft and looking
tres French Provincial, I feel.

I think this was the first Improv type quilt I pieced that I ended up
loving.....
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I began hand quilting Maru-gata Kimmi last night....

                                Here she is sitting on my knee 
                                   with her pink outlining....

I  decided she needed to be the star of the circle...;}}}
AND................this way she stands out;
and the dark green thread 
will fill in the rest of the center circle....

I am debating whether to add a few beads on the lotus 
blooms to accentuate that gold...

I haven't done a lot of beading since I made this piece for Mom:

                                This was her last Christmas present:  
                                               her "Mary Mandala"
                                                  for her bedside table.

                             It sits on my shelf in my sewing room now...
                                          bringing many memories
                                              of our happy times sewing together
                                                   HAPPY SPRING, MOM....💔

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I am plugging away on the "secret" project quilt...but my back problem 
has slowed that down a lot....
I am so glad that I began it really early--
it should still be ready for Christmas giving...hopefully....
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We have glimpses of Mr. Sun today which is nice....I am continuing to ice
my back and Thom is tending his cheek wound from the cryo excision--
We make quite a pair, the two of us 👫💕💕💕💑

But as my Grand-mere used to state:
                                                     "This too will pass..."
And so, 
We are purposefully NOT watching the News a lot...
the c-virus updates are troubling, 
but we are doing our part by staying home;
really, that is all we can do at this stage.  

I hope you all stay well and safe💝  

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (remembering happy times-euse)