poems and quotes etc..RR

I've don with Barbara's block

I chose this quote as it seemed to call to me


the stitch on the top is supposed to look like a zipper.  now that I look at it it needs a little help. maybe Barbra, you can fix that when it gets home? I know fixing zippers in real life is a pain but this one seems a matter of design and my zipper pull looks a little off.


anyway I got this great idea from this quote and this image was the first thing that popped into my head so I thought, what better to use as a focus!


I used the thimble as a cornucopia for the SRE roses, what better use for a sewers thimble?

and there always needs to be a spiderweb, not only to symbolize good luck but our propensity to forgo house work in favor of sewing some more ( at least I do!)
but where is the spider? Maybe under the patches? I thought that was a cleaver motif form the previous block so I incorporated it and the skeins of floss.
look who's hiding in there! hmm still no spider....



here is the finished block, the swatches are acting up as a peek-a-boo so no tattling, I want it to be a surprise!  ;)

Bag'O'goodies

 notes to self;

1) dying individual lacy bits takes more than a day

2) surrender your space to the job for at least a week

3) get used to having interestingly colored fingers for said week

 4) have fun with it!

5) see what $30.00 worth of flowered lace will get you?

I've been busy

 really I have been!
 I have figured out a few things in gimp but I am still struggling a little so please bear with me!
don't ask where that big red rose came from, It just appeared on the top one day and I had to work around it!

We have a group that meets every Wednesday 3p-6p at Crossroads mall in Bellview WA.  we Talia, Donna Pam and I sit in front of the Joannes and stitch, babble, share and compare (anyone is welcome to drop by BTW) 
 I looked down at my block
(can it be a block when it's a circle?)
and there was this big red rose!
where did it come from and how did it get there? have any of you had this happen?
boy I need to pay more attention to these things! I'm getting giddy.

 this is going to be a round box top I made one like this earlier last year but I liked it too much to sell it.

I don't seem to have that problem with this one!

this one has a more spirngy feel to it, I covered it with lots of bugs.

I love the look I get using Krenik braid for the spiders legs don't you?

about posting

I would post, I want to post, but we recently went from windows to linnux and well frankly gimp sucks, loudly!
I can't figure it out (and I've used cad programs for years)
so folks until I figure out another way to reshape, resize and generally fool around with my pictures
I got nothin.
Poo!

BJP October

 well this one took long enough to get here!







but inspiration is like that sometimes



gone when you need it and on overload when you have a lot of other things to do!

Now just one more!    

the fates box

 this is the brightest happy box I think I have made so far!


and boy do the colors POP!

 I found this great thread at Threadneedle Street, a shop in Issaquah. I used it for the swirly pattern around the picture.

It was so pretty I made the block to go with it specifically.

what do you think?
happy mystical, wibbly, wobbly,timey, wimey
fun stuff

Dec BJP

 I need 2 more and I have this years done!



this one was just screaming DECEMBER the whole time I was making it

 I finished all the backs to this years so I could wear them






they are to pretty to leave in a box

 I really should finish the ones from last year like this too!

blue hawaii box

 in hawaii where the weather is just like seattle only with sun and not so much cold!





 where the sun shines bright

 the gekkos scamper with you're morning coffee

 the surfing is wicked good

and the turtles laze about  *sigh*

just thinking about it makes me feel cold today!

getting stuff done-Finally!

 I know it sometime doesn't look like any of my projects are getting anywhere.









they will NEVER be done and I will be sewing on them FOREVER




then you find , squirreled away in a box, 3 projects, while you're  looking for something else


such is my silly life. here is the first of those.

I call it the dark forest.

September BJP

I got a little caught up with my BJP's







Here is septembers







 a little pink and swirly

 like a swimming girly

splashing water having fun

in the summer midday sun

 

Happy Solstice!

may this year find you happy in spirit, Healthy in body and peaceful in mind