SUNDAY SMALL STITCHERY, et al

 

I have four of these vintage "cutter" blocks

that I bought (rescued ) a while ago;

and I have decided to use them as a 

backing for my new slow stitch project...

"My Little House"....

thus giving them a new life and purpose

instead of the junkyard!!!

[I was inspired by Karen at "Railway Cottage Studio"

on YouTube...visit her to see amazing hand

slow stitching projects....]

I set up the "initial" background on Friday

deciding to use my brown bits and 

pink-ey-mauves leftovers as

my color theme on this one...

Below is the final setting 

for the background

with the house pinned in place

Basting the entire background 

in place before adding anything...

I have pinned on my 

proposed special bits--

in this case  three little bunnies

(so darn cute!)--

and

 my little house 

with mauve/lilac-ey 

doors and windows..

Today

 I began stitching edges and the 

three little "bunnikins", 

deciding to add some little

bits of lace..

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I am working in short spans of time

and just really stitching slowly...

and, as per usual this is what my

space looks like :

😅😆😂😃😄

Like a fabric bomb exploded...

👀💣💣💣💣👀

I have three big boxes and several

baggies full of little left over 

pieces from making my fabric

books and decided to make some

little wall hangings with houses

as the main theme for all four...

This is a nice change after working on 

getting my "Littles" ready to be bound and

the Jelly Roll Jumble and Posies-- all

of which are fairly big in scale...

I do enjoy working in this smaller style...

No fancy stitches just whip stitch, 

running stitches, and maybe some small

seed stitches to come...

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Still hot and humid here, maybe

just a tad less steamy than yesterday...

Still and all feeling like 99 is not great!!!

{"Where O where..."  

is that Canadian

Cold Front?????}

I hope if it is really still hot where you are,

you can find some relief in AC...

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(Small-stitching-euse

CURRENT JUNQUE JOURNAL, et al

 

During this heat wave I've been working

on my current Pita Box Junque Journal

pages....

Here is our heat at noon right now:

If you enlarge this you can see that the 

"Feels Like" is now 112 degrees!!!!

and, we are told, tomorrow will be

EVEN HOTTER!!!

🌋🔥🔥🔥

So far no power interruptions and we are

inside in our wonderful AC....

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Here are the next few pages:

This marks the beginning of JULY here...

the little flippy card will hold 

my private journaling

about our day....

I haven't as yet done a "Strawberry Moon page,

but here is May's 

"Once in a Blue Moon"

This spread I am calling:

"The Disappearing Woman"

[Ever feel that way sometimes?

Where did the "you" in you go to?"]

I am looking for a poem to add to this one....

And finally, here is a double spread that I

just finished

This was welcoming June with its great crop

of strawberries and flowers burgeoning...

:))))

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I saw this on a blog 

(I cannot for the life of me recall

whose it was--if it's you let me know

in the comments? Thnx;))) )

I've been looking for a way to "use up" my solids

that have been sitting in their color coded bins

For- EVERRRRRRRR it seems...

This really looks like fun

to work on ....

free handcutting the wedges 

with white strips 

in between the rows....

I hope you are all staying cool if you are 

experiencing this heat wave.....

🌀

A little rain wouldn't go amiss

to cool us down...

🌂⛈⛈⛈

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(cutting-pasting-staying-cool-euse)

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THURDAY TABLETOPPER PROGRESS, et al

 

Pavement Blocks is all layered and

ready for pin basting...

Just getting that backing and

batting to size and laying it out really

exhausted me!! 

👀👺👀

It's the bending over, I think!!

Before i can even think of machine quilting

this one or sewing anything else,

I have to clean HELGA! 

It's been 7 months since I did;

she was stuttering along on my

final backing seam line--just

just made it before she really

clacked at me!!

👿

Hope to get to that tomorrow as my

back has had enough 

bendy-bendying...

;)))

:000

:&&&)

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Here is my beautiful beautiful

lavender that never disappoints

me!  Every season it blooms and

the bumblebees just love it

I was hoping to capture a bumblebee, but when I approached

they all staggered away in their

drunken flight laden with my lavender's nectar...

This color is SO intense--I can't seem to catch it on

my phone's camera...but it is just amazing!! 

Mother Nature at her best...

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Jeff took the girls-- Willa (L) and

Fiona (R)-- to Fenway Park

to catch a game.  

[Aren't they growing up fast??]

They do this every year 

when school gets out...

I do love my girls and their 

Dad and Mom, too.

Willa is now enrolled in

horseback riding camp and

can now canter....

I hope to get pix of that!!

💜💙💖💕💝💞

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Our "feel like" temp right now is

99 degrees--talk about

humid and sultry and muggy

and close and, and...can I

come up with any other words

that describe why we are

staying  in our AC today???

I hope you are enjoying what your

day brings to you, life is

so short and goes by so

quickly..

grab that golden

ring and keep it in

your heart...

hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(pin-basting-machine-cleaning-euse)