Sixty five days to 65, day #23

3" square, embroidered circle.

Sixty five days to 65, day #22

6" square, appliqued circle, embroidery stitches

Sixty five days to 65, day #21

9" square, appliqued circle, embroidery stitches



The past seven days

Sixty five days to 65, day #20

3" square, running stitch

Sixty five days to 65, day #19

3" square, french knots, I really like this one!

Sixty five days to 65, day #18

6" square, appliqued circle, embrodery

Sixty five days to 65, day #17

3" square , fused silk circle and beads



My sewing machine got to come home today! I'll be busy tomorrow.

Sixty five days to 65, day #16

3" square, a very imperfect appliqued circle, embroidery stitches

Sixty five days to 65, day #15

6" square, appliqued circle, embroidery

Sixty five days to 65, day #14

3" square, appliquéd circle, beads



All seven from this past week.

Sixty five days to 65, day #13

9"square, appliqued silk noil circle, embroidery

Sixty five days to 65, day #12

3" square, chain stitch embroidery

Sixty five days to 65, day #11

6"square, appliqued circles, buttonhole stitch and beads

Sixty five days to 65, day #10

3" square, fly stitch and french knots

Sixty five days to 65, day #9

3" square, appliqued circle, buttonhole stitch

Sixty five days to 65, day #8

6" square, appliquéd silk circle, pearl cotton stitching

One project moving forward and one stalled

My "Sixty five days to 65" project is moving right along and I'm really enjoying working on each piece. I start each one with a general idea of what I'm going to do and so far none of them have turned out like my original idea. Each one has been turning into it's own little composition, I'm just going with the flow. This is how the first seven look together, when I post them individually they all look the same size, as you can see, they aren't.



This is the start of today's.



My gigantic circle project is temporarily on hold - my sewing machine decided it was tired of what I was doing and is making some very disturbing noises. The noise started at 4:30 on Sat. afternoon, my repair guy is 1 1/2 hours away and works 10 -5 Tue - Sat. So tomorrow I'll take it in to Boise and hope that he can get it fixed soon. I have the background almost three quarters done, but it will just have to sit and wait till the machine is better.

Sixty five days to 65, day #7

9" square, appliqued circle, embroidery

Sixty five days to 65, day #6

9" square, appliqued circle, blanket stitch and french knots

Sixty five days to 65, day #5

6' square, running stitch and stem stitch

Sixty five days to 65, day #4

3" square, appliqued circle, lazy daisy embroidery stitches in pearl cotton and rayon.

Sixty five days to 65, day #3

6" square, running stitch in pearl cotton

Sixty five days to 65, day #2

6" square, appliqued circle and running stitch circles

Sixty five days to 65, day #1

I had a busy day today so it's just a 3" square with a red silk circle and blanket stitch.

I'm ready to start!

Tomorrow will be the first day of my "Sixty five days to 65" project. I've got squares cut, more than I'll need, some circles cut and all my threads and beads together.



I'll be appliqueing and/or embroidering a circle on each of the squares, one each day. I've cut three sizes of squares, 9", 6" and 3" so that I can play around with them and fit them all together at the end. I'll try and post daily so that you can see what I've done, plus I'll feel obligated to actually do it!

I've done one more sample for my big circle - this one is medium size, 41"sq.