Sewing Saturday

Isn't she lovely? Welcome to this week's sewing round up!
(Listen to Stevie sing while you read https://www.youtube.com/)

This week I finished the binding, and the beading on her.
It's all scraps, laid over each other with no fusible. Raw edged applique, machine stitched, hand painted face with prisma pencils.

the flowers are paper with rhinestones. 

 The color of the month at Rainbow Scrap Challenge is pink, and it's a happy color to me. 

The design wall is pretty

 This week I sewed the lozenge blocks I've done in each color of the month. The tiny HST's made the little pinwheel piece to the right.

these are all larger scraps and I used them to create the sashing and borders. The pinwheels are improv, not measured or fussed with to make them match, so they are a bit wonky. 

 

like my picture! With digital if you don't position yourself exactly right it looks skewed. I like how fussy cutting that scrap got me the little scallop. The whole piece is 11" X 20"

I don't know what will become of these tiny quilts, but they feel good to make

I finished up the embroidery lessons with Sue Spargo... I liked many of them including the palestrina knot down the middle of butterfly, and the turkey work that makes fringe down the middle of wings.

I used a metallic thick thread that ravels, perfect. You stitch loops securely then cut them and rough them up!

I added little embellishments to the learning piece. I tried doing a knot at the top of the buttonhole stitch, straight stitches for grass and along the hexie edge.

Someone mentioned they have her book, the wool, and want to learn but they are scared to mess up the wool.

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 I just pulled out the wool scraps, free form cut components for a flower and butterfly, 5 small hexies and started. This is my learning piece... I expected it to be really rough but it turned out kind of pretty. Now how do people quilt and finish these?

I finished knitting DH's socks, and am knitting a shorter pair out of the scraps for me. Knitting is nice handwork for TV time

I zoomed with my art quilt group this week. We are all having a hard time being creative now. The uncertainty of life, and the lack of leadership through this health crisis has caused all of us to flounder. It's good for me to do weekly round ups for painting and sewing. It shows me I've accomplished something. Tell me how you are coping... I'd love to know...

LInking to

 wendysquiltsandmore peacock party (quilts)
http://frombolttobeauty.blogspot.com/
off the wall Fridays 
http://busyhandsquilts.blogspot.com/
can I get a whoop whoop Fridays 
tgiffriday

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

 slow stitching Sundays

oh Scrap Sundays 

 scrap happy Saturdays