TEA ANYONE?

                                  The layered Teapot          ("Tea Anyone?")
                                                           is now ready for some quilting...........
I took a few stitches last night when I couldn't sleep↡↡↡
Can you see them?

I plan to outline the pot to start, and then do some kind of filler stitching; I am using
regular quilting thread on this one in a beige--the background fabric is one that I
coffee dyed a few years back when that craze "squirreled" me...;))))
                          [There's a new word to add to the quilting lexicon lol]

I will be working on this one this afternoon while watching the Patriots game....
Go Patriots............p l e a s e...;0000

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Here is a picture of a scrappy quilt I saw on Youtube that may be how I put my
red/pink scraps
together...

You can see that four 4" blocks are sewn together and then finished with that beautiful
sashing and cornerstones...

...I am thinking mine will be a much
smaller project--this one is some 60x60--total madness ;0000.--
perhaps a dolly sized
little quilt or even a pillow???...

I am really trying to make my projects smaller--but after making bed size or lap size
quilts all these years,
I am finding it difficult to do this...I just think in those sizes.....

I need to make some dolly size quilts to get into the swing of things..perhaps....
this one should become the first....
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I hope your Sunday is a peaceful one in these stressful days leading up to
the Holidays...
                                                S E W  O N 👍🙋🙏

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse ( scrapping-euse)

PINK and RED SATURDAY

                                        The start of a ( mostly) pink and red fun, scrappy piece

                                           Wrong side up here--need to iron them out
                                                (A little teaser here for you) ;)))

When I hung up this Christmas runner I made with DAWNIE at her site
Relaxing Robin blog SAL last year :

                                          The reds and pinks called my name...
[and while we're at it...
WHY don't they make more prints like this ↓↓↓↓ anymore???]

I especially like those reds and golds...

This is a little cut off piece from the 

quilt I made for my eldest grandson, Steven,

when he went into his "Big Boy" bed...

Ummmmm

Now, how did he get to be 20 years old

so quickly?  ;((((

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I decided some fun "just sewing" was in order on this 

gray rainswept day here....

Because I needed a treat after:

Earlier this morning I made egg salad for sandwiches

as our dinner along with french fries tonight...

Changed sheets and

did another laundry load

while Thom vacuumed the house with our brand new SHARK 

vacuum which we just love 💕💕

(it was our house's Christmas present this year)

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Looking ahead....

I picked out a first pull of fabrics for this quilt which I hope will be

my 2020 long term project 

Lots and lots and lots of applique :000

Wish me luck....

Mine will certainly look different with these

fabrics...I am trying to just use 

my stash...

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I hope you are having a wonderful pre-Christmas Saturday and

not having to rush around all stressed out...

💖P E A C E💖

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse (pink/red-ing-euse) ;}}}

I LIKE # 24

                             My table top twinkling tree,,,,,,, by night....

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                                 Snowy walks on the boardwalk by the ocean........

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                        This "overnighter" Lasagna --Big YUM....

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My son, Jeff, sledding with the girls...he sends me photos of all their fun times...

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I finished and sent out two Christmas placemats for Fiona and Willa--oops..
forgot to take photos,,;000

And that's the news from our Little House on the [snowy] Hill this morning...💝💝

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us and all of our positive likes for the week.

Hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (brrrr--it's cold-euse)

SUNDAY'S WOOLIE PROJECT SET UP

               My woolen pieces are all in place and ready for stitching...
            I left out really tiny acorns and a petite corncob...for now anyway

 This is a buttermilk Basin  kit that I've had for a while;
   it will be a change from cross stitching and embroidery
    for me in the evenings.....

  [I may have to cut another moon...this one is from
 the pattern, but I think it looks kinda skimpy ;((((]

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (Wool-gathering-euse)

I LIKE NO. 23

I like how this drawer is getting emptied out--finally ;000

I am thinking that I will make us new placemats with these rectangular
squares, adding borders of course...trying to cheer up these gray days
around here...

                                             I've run out of enough turquoise squares to make up
                             another block.....just a few mis-matched ones left...
The contents of the drawer will be dumped into a bag and picked out randomly
to make up a big scrap piece with the "leftover"--leftovers (hahaha--lol)

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                                           I like this quilt from Springleaf Studios blog....
                                                  Beautiful way to set Kaffee fabrics....
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And I like this one also from Blue Elephant Stitches blogspot... 

Since I haven't been well, I've been scouring bloglandia for inspiration and to
recharge my "mojo"....I like the low contrast backgrounds a lot....

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And last, but not least, here is my first wool project being set up:

It is a Buttermilk Basin one; I am trying to get the "back" pieces down first and 
then add the rest...pumpkins, branch, and bird and leaves.....this will become
my hand stitchery for the New Year.....

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hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (glass-half-full-euse) ;)))

OCEAN SNOW et al

                             MY HOMAGE TO OUR FIRST SNOWFALL THIS YEAR

I had begun this little piece last year and then--it got put in my drawer...and
pushed aside for some reason...

            I just really love this little Japanese print of houses in the snowy hills...
we live on a  cul-de-sac hill just above the ocean..a short 5 minute walk away...
so this just seemed to come together....

Again, so like me---;000, I don't know where this is going...but for now, it's
just a little remembrance....
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Here are a few more little squares that morphed into rectangles;)))

And these are ready to sew...↓↓↓

that iris blue print is a 
favorite of mine....

As you can see they are getting wonkier and more wonkified..;)))
BUT
I have, at least,  made a dent here:     

Now it's just bits and bobs left of this and that...so these may become 
                    border strips for some future project....we'll see.
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AND, here is the start of a new wool project:

I ironed a stabilizer onto the cotton background to help support the coming
woolen fuse-appliqued pieces...

I think I am back in the "sewing mode",,, finally....:))))

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse ("I'm back in the saddle again..." )

FOUND: FOUR PATCHES & MOJO

                          I opened some storage drawers today and found a whole lot of 
                                                                        Four patches... 

                                                  These are leftovers from
                       The Curious Quilter's  postage stamp swap of a few years ago...

Somehow,  someone who was supposed to send 50 different squares ended up 
sending me all turquoise ones...

                                                    Some were all flowery 
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I have been away from my sewing since I came down with some sort of virus that has 
kept me under the weather...as a matter of act, on Thanksgiving, I was really
not feeling well...but with all my helpers we managed to put on a wonderful meal
and have fun, too...;)))))

                   So, I decided to sew a few together...groups of twelve...that seemed to mesh ...

Ironing all my seams open, as I prefer, in order to allow me to hand quilt more easily...and keep the
piece very flat....

                                    I still have 2 drawers full to try to put together...
                                    and these will be all scrappy as they do not match in any way....

SO.........................
where am I going with this, you ask???
Frankly, I have no idea...

I am just trying to get my sewing "mojo" back...
I had a little "talk" with myself and said "Just get in there and sew...."

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse  (back-to-sewing-euse)