SOME PROGRESS, et al

 

Here are the "starting" color stacks of my prints....

[I say "starting" as I haven't gotten 

into my bins, boxes,

and bags as yet to pull fabrics out...

but there are not really

all that many fabrics left!!

I may have to go "shopping" to round

out some colors as you can tell from the

smaller stacks...--too bad hahaha]

The two bigger bins on the left top hold

whites and "I don't know where

to put these?" prints...

and my Jolly Bars and 10" 

precuts...

and

You can just spy my leftover

bindings bin on the top right...

Here are my solids on the right

still in bins but not

yet re-folded...

I don't seem to use solids

very much so I think storing

 them in bins will work--

at least for now.

↴↴↴↴

All my jelly rolls, etc are stored in this blue bin

on my bottom shelf

and so far my shirtings reside in that plastic

zippy bag next to the pinks/reds bin....

I will be re-assessing these after I have 

gotten into my top shelf

pictured below

↴↴↴↴

I did find my long-lost quilt labels fabric during my

search--so that is good...I need to label a lot

of my finished pieces...;)))

And

While I am sorting and folding I am

coming across lots of little pieces that are now

here

A new collection of 2.5" squares ready to go;))))

I am using my old Accuquilt Go! Baby

cutter and the 2.5" die--even though it has

dulled a lot with age...👾

Lots of these smaller pieces lined up to be cut...

(Does anyone know of a way

 a way to sharpen dies?)

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While doing this I've felt the need to

break my "no buy" pledge:

So I began with these two great little

Halloween fabrics that I found on sale:

AND

I plan on using them to make my grandgirls--

Willa and Fiona --Halloween placemats...

I think they are just so cute;)))

So far so good--I am resting 

this afternoon after putting

in another 45 minutes this

morning...

I need to pamper my back a bit...

Hugs, Julierose, 

La Blageuse

(still-sorting-euse)

FALL CLEANING OF A SORT, et al

My fabric stash closet mess!! 

It is way past time to get this straightened out

so that I can FIND things and know

 what I HAVE on hand...

YA THINK?????

👺👽👾👿

Here you can see that I've begun

the reds and oranges on the left

neatly stacked 8" x 8"-- 

[with smaller yet not crumb pieces on top];

and these

are just what had been (shoved!) 

placed on the shelf higgeldy-piggeldy

🐖🐖🐖🐖

as they came in...

The left shelves hold all my printed fabrics

and the right (in bins) holds solids--

uh, sort of!!  

I mean really....

I have pulled peaches, pinks and blues

to work on and stacked them on my ironing

board to be dealt with next ...

[and you can see other colors have worked

their way into these piles--I wonder how that

happened hahaha]

↯↯↯↯

I am estimating at least the rest of this week

and perhaps next, also, to really get

my fabric stash  in order...

AND

I realize now that

I don't have a lot of actual full yards--

mostly Fat 1/4's and 1/2 yds...

I am resting my back 

right now, 

from all the standing

and bending needed 

to work on this..

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This Labor Day will be a quiet one

for us...

I am making my simple bean and hot dog

casserole with a tossed salad and

snowflake rolls...

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Tomorrow my daughter and Cassidy

(my grand- and her daughter) 

will be joining us for

lunch for a visit before she moves to

live in New Jersey for the next 

phase of her life....

You know you're old👵

 when your two oldest

grands move away to live--

Steven the eldest lives and works in 

Boston...

And life moves inexorably forward

doesn't it????

Happy for them, but a little

sad myself....

I hope you have enjoyed this long 

Labor Day weekend

💕💞😇

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(re-folding-and-re-stacking-euse)

 

CHRISTMAS OJOS FINISHED, et al

 

I finished "Christmas Ojos:

this afternoon...

{as usual click to enlarge any photos}

💚💖💝

Here is a closer look at the binding I chose...

and 

how the pink quilting looks on

the reverse tone on tone green:

As you can see, I did the 2.5" strip binding all on 

my machine--ending with a zig-zag on the

front side

I love all those little special items contained in this piece;

a good Christmas memory quilt...

Full of "bits and bobs" of leftover 

favorite fabrics...

Here it is on my dining table--most likely

it will be featured lying over my deep maroon

cloth which should set it off nicely

 for my Christmas dinner...

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File under:

Change of Seasons:

↧↧↧↧

Here is my Autumn Bounty topper with an old,

favorite bright yellow teapot

on my table for the coming

of Fall 🍂🍁🍃

I really love that center pear fabric...

💛💛💛

I have also hung my Autumn Stars on

the dining room wall..

[I need to make little hangers for it, right now

its just tucked over the bar !! ]

I will finish putting out more Autumnal pieces

tomorrow...to welcome 

Fall into

our 

home...

⌛💐🏡

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Hugs, 

Julierose,

La Blageuse

(moving-into-Autumn-euse)

JUNQUE JOURNALING, et al

 

Here is a new double page spread from

my Pita Box Junque Journal...

{you can click to enlarge if you wish}

I am using a lot of old photos

in this Journal--juxtaposed with

modern magazine images...

Can you find the face stamp on each page???

They tend to get partially hidden sometimes...

This has become my signature image for 

this volume...;)))

I call this one my 

Lady of Mystery...

Some pages have journaling cards

or spots to write...

Here, I've used an old group 

photo of Aunts of mine 

as a holder for the 

little Journaling card..

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Little by little, I am filling these pages; 

I have one more section left to

prepare --I don't write every day

diary style, but only when the

spirit moves me...

I am really having fun playing

in my  

Pita Box 

Junque Journal.

💛💜💝

😇

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(playing-with-paper-euse)

NEXT...et al

 

"Sunrise, Sunset" is next in line

for a long term hand quilting project...

I am beginning on the long coin strip center...

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Here is the final version of 

"Falling Leaves" 

A Flimsy now...

I decided to add just two more borders 

with cornerstones of the leaf fabric...

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And I finally finished my hand quilting on

"Christmas Ojos"

(Phew--lots of stitches here)

I love how textured it came out...

You can see all the stitching here....

😇😊😌😍

Now I have to find a good binding

fabric...

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Here is my little collection of

meditation spools on my buffet...

Five done now...

They are perched on my Grand-mere's old

cake stand and sitting on her

crocheted doily...

Those dried roses are from my last

year's bouquet from my

Sweet Baboo 👄💖

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Tomorrow my daughter and her family

will all be coming to share lunch with us

before they are off to college and/or

work for the Autumn...

Also, (one of the twins grandsons), Greg,

is bringing his new girlfriend

to meet us--hmmmmm

must be serious, right?

👫👌;)))

We hope to hear all about their

recent family trip to Brazil

for their cousin's wedding

celebration...💒

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(prepping-euse)

RAIN, et al

 

Isn't that something--that I had to take a picture of it finally raining!!

😓😒😐😕

We got all of 1.07" overnight here--look at our straw lawn there;

that shows just how dry we've been... We seem to be in a little

space that never got any rain --except perhaps .01 here and there

once in a while all this Summer...so this was an "event" for us...

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Itsy-Bitsy Spider is all together 

and

awaiting a border --

(N.B.--this was a challenge to sew the sections 

together with all those seams!!)

and 

my other latest project.....

Falling Leaves right next to it on my 

design wall...is still waiting a decision

on borders or not or what????

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And....

"Christmas Ojos" 

only has 3 more blocks for me to

hand quilt left!! 😂😄😅😇

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I pulled out this old UFO

and am now in the process of choosing

a backing and then layering it up

for my machine quilting pile...

It's been around for so long I cannot

even recall if I named it or not???

I used all my little leftover 1.5" sqs 

for this one...it needs to be finished...

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Sorry about not answering your comments 

on my last "Itsy-Bitsy" post--

😭😢😱

your comments all had gone to spam--

(thank you Blogger!!👿with no notification!)

But thanks to my sharp-eyed friend 

Lizzy

Who emailed me about this SNAFU,

I went into "Help" and was able

to fix it (I hope!!) --

If your comment doesn't show up,

let me know would you?

Thanks;))))

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(quilting-away-euse)

Comments

 

Your lovely comments have all gone to spam--I think I have corrected this in my settings...

thanks Lizzy for letting me know....they have all appeared on the last blog post now--will try to answer

you all...thanks,

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse 

(spammed-euse)