Socks and more mono prints

I'm a rather slow knitter, I average one pair of socks per winter but I have finished this winter's pair.

I've decided to cut up the 20" square mono prints that were in my last post. I have nine more the same size, so some of those will be cut up also. It will probably be a few weeks until I can start working on them so they've been put away so I'm not tempted. I found some mono prints on cotton that had been done about the same time.  I had already cut out parts of them but had enough left to cut out sixteen 3 1/2" squares, have sewn them together and will do hand stitching in black on them for my SAQA auction piece.

Daily stitching #353 - #358, plus a close up.

#60 - #65 plus close up

Week #10 plus close up

I've also finished the quilting on the queen size quilt and now have to sew the five sections together.

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Mono Prints revisited

In March of 2010 I did a mono print everyday. Thirty of them were on 20" square pieces of linen and the thirty first one was done on a 52" square of cotton. They were all circles, black on white. The last one (#31) was the most difficult to do, since it was so large,but it was my favorite and I hand stitched the whole thing with pearl cotton. It has been traveling with SAQA's "Beyond Comfort"show since early in 2011.

Mono Print #31

52" x 52"

Several of the other mono prints got cut up and rearranged last winter and then stitched with pearl cotton over the summer. I recently had it photographed.

Fractured Mono prints

68" x 50"

Yesterday I pulled out my favorites of the remaining prints and I want to do something with them. My original thought had been to just leave them as they are and do a giant nine-patch, but I really like what happened when I cut up and rearranged the others. So for now they are hanging out on my design wall waiting for me to make a decision.

There are several more hidden away in a drawer, that will probably join these if I decide to cut them up.

 Daily stitching #349 - #352, plus some close ups.

Daily Stitching #56 - #59

Weekly Stitching #9

This post is now linked to "Off the Wall Friday"

Lots of Stitching

After complaining about blogger and my problems posting, Kathy Loomis wrote and told me how to get words and pictures lined up. Thanks Kathy. It made me aware that I've been doing this backward for years, I've always done the pictures first then added words. So now I'm going to do words first then put in the pictures. Being a very visual person I'm always more interested in pictures over words. So this is a new experience for me . I've also hit the compose button above for the first time, that also changes things!

While taking pictures of my stitching projects I got carried away and took several close ups.

Wow this is working totally different than before!!!

Here are daily stitching #346 -348

#53-55

week #8

I feel much better about this now that I've learned something!