TWO JANUARY FINISHES, et al

 

Fiona's reading quilt,

bound and labeled

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AND

Willa's reading quilt

and her label

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I used their favorite colors

for the borders and bindings.

I thought this fabric was really 

cute for the labels...;)))

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I have also been working 

on my "Down the Garden Path";

and I have added stitching along the

rocks on the path and

some beading on the 

turquoise sari ribbon.

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I am working my way down the 

fabric getting background patches

sewn down.

Here is a lovely scrap that I

coffee dyed along the right side that

I  used the buttonhole stitch on...

varying the width....

This is a leftover from my 

Crazy quilt that was 

originally all white...

We get our next prompt on the

1st Wednesday in February.

I will continue to outline the rocks on 

my path and to sew it down.

I think you can see the stitching here...

I still have a lot of background edges

to be anchored down...but

I don't want to add much more

until get the next prompts...

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We actually got to see the sun shine

for about 3 hours today, but the clouds

continue to come in and the wind

is whipping up this afternoon...

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(resting-a-bit-euse)

DOWN THE GARDEN PATH, et al

 

This week,

I added a little stone wall and

the garden gate--

it is an old gate

and therefor, a bit wonky--

;)))

with grasses and

little florets on either side...

I used my Inktense Pencils to

dye a bit of green background

for the grasses...

[click to enlarge]

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This afternoon I cut and sewed

binding strips for both

Crumb quilts

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the next step will be to

iron them in half; 

then I will trim up the two 

quilts for binding.

I used leftover border fabrics 

alternating with raspberry for 

Fiona's and used a light blue

for the alternate in Willa's. 

I would like to get these finished

by the end of January---

but It all depends on how

my back reacts...

👿

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After walking two days in a row, 

I took today off to rest my back...

And

It has been another dark and gray

and rainy

day here...

I am hoping to

see the sun tomorrow...

but not holding my breath...😞

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(bit-by-bit-euse)

QUILTING and DOWN THE GARDEN PATH

I just did straight line vertical quilting

on Willa's lap quilty..

after setting up my machine and

the quilting I had to take a 

couple days off...

before tackling Fiona's quilt...

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Here is my Down the Garden Path snippet 

roll in progress.

I have the base pretty well covered

and did the first prompt 

which was "Wildflowers"...

I decided to work vertically so that

I could also use it as a 

wall hanging...

I finally figured out how I wanted 

the "Path" to flow...

I cut the stones fabric on the bias

so I could could get little curves...

And

the little yellow flower on the bottom

right is part of an old window shade

pull that my Grand-mere made...I

just added some French knots in 

variegated yellow thread...

My wildflowers are definitely of

the "fantasy" variety ;)))

Our next prompt is:

 "Garden Door"

or

"Garden Gate"

I am struggling to figure out 

how to do this one...

and have kind of put it on the

back burner to think about

it.  Or just not

do it at all...👀

I have more work to do still

on the backgrounds along the path--

I m thinking of adding grasses....

and more greenery about the base of

the trees...

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Mr. Sun has finally come out today...

we took a short (for me!) walk

on the field path--it was

really great to get out in the 

fresh--though brisk -- air! 

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(traveling-down-the-path-euse)

 

CRUMB QUILTS and MORE

 

Fiona's Crumb quilt 

all layered up and ready for

pin basting...

Here is the close up of the border"

I love how this goes with the 

lavender strips....

AND...

Here is Willa's

all layered and ready for

pin basting....

and

a close up of her border

One of my favorite

(I've been hoarding this one!!)

prints...

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Later on...

they are both pin basted and ready to

be machine quilted...

Tomorrow i will set up my machine

for quilting and work on these two

and my Ojos which is also ready

to be quilted...

I was going to hand quilt the Ojos--

but my hands are really 

sore these days with all my other projects 

on the go...

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Here is my first addition to my 

"Slow Stitching"

Just a small bit of greenery using up

some of my 

my lacey pieces left over from my

Crazy Quilting..

I want to add embroidered stems and

little leaf-ey things...with

fantasy wildflowers 

and

do something with that 

sky piece at the

top... 

I left the bottom of the ruffled sari silk open 

so that I will be able to begin the next prompt

there...

AND...

I have all these pieces leftover

I want to use them in this 

"Down the Garden Path"

fabric snippet roll...scattering 

them along the way...

I won't be  buying anything for this

project,

but trying to use up what I have

on hand.

Nicki Lee's "Raviolee Dreams" 

is the etsy site

where I purchased the lace bits

many years ago...She

really does beautiful work...

i have quite a pile of them:

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The pinks include a mauve-y shade

which I love...

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I am continuing on knitting 

my facecloths in the

evenings while watching 

the tube...

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Another rainy and dark gray day here...

will that Sun every come out?????

Hugs from under my bumbershoot,

Julierose, La Blageuse

(quilting-sewing-euse)

VOLUME THREE: DOWN THE GARDEN PATH

 

I finished the base of my 

"Down the Garden Path"

for

#Roxy's Journal of Stitchery

Volume Three...

[she posts on YouTube

every Wednesday]

The first prompt is:

"Wild Flowers"

I have decided

to stitch 

vertically 

for more of a wall hanging

unrolling from my bobbin

like so--

I have pinned up the extra

length for ease of working..

Now to add the first prompt

which is

"Wild Flowers"...

and maybe some kind of sky-like

cloud formations?

This project continues

through June of this year...

with two prompts per month

{I don't know if I will be

able to stay caught up as

the cloth is quite large to

cover...}.

Stay tuned...

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Cold as it was this morning --

in the low thirties with a WNW

wind---we went for a short

walk to the field

and I managed one circuit.. 

As one says: 

"Better than nothing!"

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(slow-stitching-euse)

 

JANUARY CRUMBS

I finished sewing Fiona's Crumb lap

quilt center with the lavender bars;

AND

Here is Willa's 

With the pale blue bars.

Here they are together--

the same 

only different:)))

and use up some of the tiniest

bits I have found..

Now, 

I only have to add borders

to make them wider

and backings 

to make them into small

lap quilts...

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These are my month's 

crumb piecing...

I will try something different

for February in my attempt to

whittle down my crumbs and

cut offs...

👀

BECAUSE...

I have cut offs and strips and

crumbs from the 1980's when I

first began quilting and wanted

to "SAVE" all the odd pieces...

but never used them much...

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Another gray and rainy day here

I made us a meatloaf

for dinner  along

with what will be mashed

potatoes and gravy...

A good supper for a 

cold, raw

day...

hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(still-crumbing-along-euse)

 

JUST BECAUSE....

My progress on the purple

themed crumb blocks...8 more blocks to

finish before adding 

separator strips

in lavender...

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I had thought I was going to do the next 

Slow Stitching for Roxy's

Journal of Stitchery--

But if you look here on

my design wall below:

[click to enlarge]

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On the right, you can see the Slow Stitch

fabric snippet roll I made a

couple years ago...

This next 6 month's stitching is

just really a larger version of

a garden snippet roll---

and I had enough

trouble putting this one together

as I recall ;000

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And on the left is my next UFO:

My Mourning piece for my 

Mom and Dad's Passing...

❤

Mom has been gone for 7 years

now (I cannot believe it!!)--

and it is time to finish

this one up.  

It is all hand stitched--

and free cut...

even the squares are hand 

stitched together--

It took me about 3 years

to add the embroidery which symbolizes

their passing (two hearts on the bottom

left with rootlets growing into the earth.

I kept having to put it away as

it made me SO SAD...)

AND

My moving on into the

Circle of Life on the top right..

❤

I used a lot of the methods I learned

in an online class with Jude Hill...

So....

 I want to back this and hang it in

my sewing space....

Next up is to find a suitable backing...

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I have also set up a Rainbow Glue Book

for myself as I find this work so 

relaxing and I 

L💙ve

to cut paper and glue...

AND IT IS EASY!!!:))))

I used a simple composition

notebook, gluing two pages together

and sealing them with Washi Tape

for strength...

Below is that result:

A rainbow of colors along the

edges denoting

what color images to glue 

on each page--

  

There are

three pages for every color--

but blue has four

💙💙💙💙

(I Love Blue )

And the back pages will be

 Black & White Images...

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So, between the above projects

and my Garden Embroidery

(I am waiting for some 

needles to come in the mail

to begin)

I should have more than enough to

keep me busy....and give myself

the variety I need to choose

from every day...

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I hope your New Year is going well,

we loved the holidays, but are happy to

get back to what passes for normal

around our House on the Hill...

👫

Hugs,

Julierose, La Blageuse

(Doing-my-own-thing-euse 😊)