and here is our early morning Red Sky = "Sailors take warning.." and the rest of us, too! We are already having 35 mph wind gusts, some rain--so far no snow! Good deal....(I may have to go and throw myself off the Saybrook Bridge (after getting my hair done, of course) if we get any more snow....)
I am working on RSC13 (Rainbow Scrap Challenge): the color for March is Orange.
Here is my pile (messy!) of oranges: All that I own really; not a big stash of this:
I need to re-charge my camera battery (duh!) so, cannot show you the cute mini-broken dishes blocks I slaved (Holding hand to brow & big sigh) over this morning...
I really don't know how I will put them together as yet, but I think that the pale peach will be the background, as they are VERY COLOR SATURATED! (Holy Samoley they be smokin' orange!!)
The plain colored piece on the left is one of my old ( ..er than the hills- haha) hand dyes that I did in the 80's. I haven't really known what to do with it (just opening, stroking, ironing, re-folding...sigh) so, now I will USE it!!
I may get to Hello Dolly later, but maybe a day off...cannot decide....
Windy days make me crazed!!
"Orange" you glad you dropped in... groan ??? Julierose, La Blageuse
TA-DAH! Blues-ey is finished...tied, bound, and keeping me warm while tv watching at night! I never ever thought I'd get this finished--really!! The most pieces ever in any quilt I've made. Thank you to Bonnie for her Blue Ridge Mountain Pattern which I scaled down to lap quilt size. All of her books are fan-tab-u-lous!
Here is the back--using up all but a very small piece of this old favorite fabric and a Nancy Crow fabric for binding (click on pix ).
I am doing my happy dance this afternoon--my first (and hopefully not last) finish of 2013.
AND: I am moving forward with Hello Dolly and have finished Row 6:
and here is another block using that "...That Old Black Fabric that you weave so well...." a song or every occasion in our house.... ;---)))
I have also started the RSC13 challenge (better late than never, huh?) from Angela at Superscrappy blog--but I canNOT get her button pasted onto my sidebar---aaargh--it just won't do it. A little techie-snit here....will keep on tryin'...
More S N O W predicted here for Wed THROUGH Fri...
Well, snow days is sew days (hahaha) I say..
And--now,off to my herbal tea to soothe my very sore mouth after yesterday's ouchy-Crown Challenge at my dentist + a cavity!! I looked like and felt like a blubber lip..my whole lower jaw was full of Novacaine;.no talkin' for me yesterday...but it's over--yay! All but the followup..which will be easy..as my dentist said ("Julie, no shots, no drills, just pop it on there!) I have a terrific dentist; I just get soooo anxious.....
See you all soon and a big thank you to Dunkin, the cat , for picking me as a winner of sewyouquilt2's giveaway. I am purring....Julierose, La Blageuse
Three rows sewn together on "Hello Dolly" (out of ten): I have set myself a goal of one row a day...now that I have stacked the fronts, backs and batting squares, labeled them and put them in order.
It gets a little confusing on the back as in Row 4 there are alternating blocks (angels/snowflakes). Will have to keep (what's left of my..)wits about me so as not to mess it up!!
Here is a view of my cutting table with all those blocks ready to sandwich (hmm, I forgot to eat lunch...) and put in rows.
A pile of sandwiches ready to go....(HAM SALAD SOUNDS GOOD....lol)
We had tons of rainy weather this week and here's what's left of the snow looking out my sewing room window:
We are so looking forward to sitting out on our back deck this year. Doesn't February seem like the LONGEST month--it's only 28 days, but they seem to stretch on forever.....
Not a whole lot left (yay!!) -- I am hoping for an early Spring. I need to see those daff-y-down dillies poking up through the earth...some color to relieve all this grey grayness!
I wish you all a super quilty weekend...hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse
Spent 3 hours cutting 100 (!) Christmas fabric blocks for the reverse of "Hello Dolly" and setting them up on the design wall--after removing the 100 from yesterday and organizing them into labeled rows.
This "monsta" is too big to photograph in its alltogether!!
Here is a look at the fabrics:
This is definitely 'Kota playing in the snow....
AND
Here's Santa....
And Angels caroling....
And Frosty, of course.....
Tomorrow, I hope to cut the 100 (! sigh) 5.5" pieces of light batting to put in between.
THEN.....(apologies to Raymond Chandler...) "The Looong Sew"....
Ooops, time to put in the ham...see ya all Julierose, La Blageuse
We visited Fiona (oh, & Jeff and Lin & 'Kota, too haha) --anyhoo....she has really grown a lot!! So much so, that I discovered that she will be going into a DOUBLE BED!! I made enough blocks for a twin size...uh-oooh...Remember me "Hello Dolly"??? I've been expanded--
Here's what I've done: this is a teeny portion of the 100 x 100 blocks for only the front of the quilt--it will be 60" x 60" +/- and a Rag quilt with a Christmas back. I have yet to cut those 100 Santas and the 100 flannel fillers..each block is 6.5 x 6.5 (I happened to have a ruler just that size....) (click on pix---;---)))
I have them up on my design wall and I love that pinky/lilac solid all around those Dolly blocks!
Here's what my DH made for me after I cut and pinned them up all afternoon:
"I'll Take Manhattan.." la la la lala....
I got to put Fiona in for her nap Thursday--bundled under my 1st Rag quilt for her in the rocking chair, I read her 3 books and then she just looked at me.."Where's the songs, Grand'mere?" So I lullabyed her to sleep...What a sweet girl...A wonderful day....
Julierose, La Blageuse (Grand'mere)
Up on my wall right now: this bunch of leftover HST'S I found tucked away in a baggie from eons ago!! They are kinda uneven (duh); they were my first attempt at HST work. Guess I gave up and put them away--but I am pressing (hah) on with them for fun! It took me about three days to figure out how to sew them together (rip-it, rip-it, 3x's--all 86 of them! Yikes!!)
That navy&brown leafy print was one of my very favorites. I don't plan to makeup any more HST's -- just use what's on hand...fun--but a little frustrating, too..
Here is our "cedar monster" after the "big snow" we had. The weight of all that icey snow finally broke it in half! I hate to lose cedars--they are so pretty...
As you can see, I haven't gotten much further with my Houses 2 little scene. I am having a really hard time figuring out how to border it --or not--so "up on the wall" pinning and un-pinning various fabrics and then just looking.....
I finally made my binding for Blues-ey yesterday and after all our errands today, hope to true-up the quilt and sew the binding on it...and so it goes, baby steps for right now....hugs from Julierose, La Blageuse
HAPPY VALENTINE'S
Julierose, La Blageuse
