Life in quarentine or for my own mental health

I may not post for a while. Anyone who is a regular here knows this happens from time to time, when I get overwhelmed with other things to do or loose the mojo to do. It's a thing with me.
I battle with a mild form of Anxiety and depression that I don't tend to advertise because people (not you guy's, you're great!) are judgey. I just don't want you al to worry if I drop off for an extended period. I'm OK. I hope you all are OK too.

When life gets overwhelming I self-isolate (convenient, no?) and retreat into the things that make me feel better. I sew and binge-watch, or garden or read. I have cultivated many, many hobbies to cope with being overloaded emotionally or mentally.
I think we can all agree the news lately is worth a bit of whelming.

I try to keep politics and religion out of my blog but it seeps in from time to time, again those of you who come here often, pretty much know my proclivities. I am an Atheist Leftist.
I have received a few comments that I have erased for being nasty and hurtful. I don't expect everyone to agree with me and I don't expect everyone to fall in lockstep, with every idea I espouse.
I can handle dissent and I welcome debate but there is no space here for abuse.

Funny, how people who accuse you of being a snowflake, that can't handle a different opinion are the first ones to rant and rave when you challenge their beliefs. I have no place for that in my life anymore. My step-father was abusive in many horrible ways and my ex was a narcissist so I have done this already, I won't allow it here.

I apologize to anyone for whom I have offended with language or ideology but I will warn you all

That Is Who I AM

I do swear like a sailor, (and if you think I'm, bad you should hear my mother) though I do try to tamp it down in public.
I will speak my mind and it won't always be politically correct.
And if someone deserves it, I will tell you why you are incorrect and why I think this.
I like a good discussion on many subjects, a bit of argumentation is OK but the minute people stop listening to each other you are no longer in a discussion, that is the minute the discussion ends.
I refuse to apologize for being myself, I did that for 45 years. I'll not be doing that anymore.

I felt the need to get all that out into the world of my blog.

For anyone wanting to follow along Jennifer Clouston is running a tutorial CQ class on her blog page

http://sewsocrazy.blogspot.com/

SHe is the author of several marvelous books on crazy quilting including this one which is awesome to teach from
Crazy Quilt International on face book is also a great resource for eye candy and the occasional how to and many of my hero's are members and regularly show their work. I highly recommend these gals if you need ideas stimulation or just some eye candy.

peacock moral challenge progress2

 SO here he is in all his glory

and mostly done too

I'm still deciding if he is done, done though


I may add an extra bit or bob somewhere





Added a little button-hole stitch and beads

to fancy it up even more

The silk ribbon daisies I added after most

of the serious sewing in the motif was done

Here is a better close up of the tail feathers

There are two layers of overcast stitching 

And I added a strand of god filliment

to give it a little extra bling






This motif was to fill up space

which it did marvelously

I just kept building it up row by row

with some beads I had laying around

from something I took apart

until it filled the space I needed it to






The shaped fly stitch seam treatment

still needs a little something, though

beads maybe something, else......







Two layers of chevron stitch with beads added

This may be done


                but one can never tell

Here's a fancy-schmancy shot


And the whole thing so far.

We have just been remanded to our homes

until may 4th,


 so


another project to keep me busy, is in order I think.

good thing there are 7 seasons to the show I'm watching

as I'm on season 3 already.......






How are you all coping?

Peacock Moral challenge

 After you have your outline stitching down

it's time to fill it in

In the head I decided to fill it in with stem stitch

because it gives me a really lovely texture

that overcomes the distractions

of the green velvet and the white lace

And gives this motif a more solid look






I then filled in the wings along the back

and the cover feathers in purple

going down to the display feathers

I'm binge watching Scott& Bailey as I sew


there are 7 seasons, that should be enough, right?










I filled in the display feathers with

cast on stitch in two different colors

 to give it dimension around

bright yellow I chose for the centers

These are going to take a while to fill in