Donation quilts

I have felt the need lately to just sit and sew, so in the past week I've been doing a couple of donation quilts. The first one is very bright and it's ready to quilt.

The second one is still just blocks, I keep rearranging them. In fact I've moved a few since I took this picture.

I got news on Saturday that my quilt honoring Yvonne Porcella was one of the ones selected for the show.

Time for me to get the label on!

Very quick post today because as soon as I finish this I'm packing my car, picking up three friends and heading to McCall for a couple of days of lake time.

The Weekly Leaf

The gelli plate came out to play this week, with a leaf from my garden and some mars red Jacquard textile paint.

Week #33

Daily Stitching updates

Gelli prints #222-228

Shades of Orange #149-155

Linked to "Off the Wall Friday"

Sewing for another baby

A young friend is expecting her first child this month, a girl that will be named Nell. This week after our yoga class we will be having a little party for her, so of course I had to make something.

We have also added some new additions to our family. In May our twenty year old cat had to be put down, two days later we discovered that one of the neighbor hood stray cats had had two kittens in our backyard. Even though my dear husband said,"no more pets, he was the first to feed them. The Mama cat is still very leery of us and one of the kittens is following Mama's lead, but the other one has learned how to use the pet door and gets in when it's time to eat. Yesterday I happened to see them sleeping in my herb pots so I had to get a picture.

The Weekly Leaf

This week was a SolarFast week, I painted avocado SolrFast onto a beige hand dye.

Put it out in the sun for 10 minutes.

I forgot to take an after washing and before stitching picture, but I'm sure you can figure it out.

Week #32

Daily Stitching updates

Gelli prints #215-221

Shades of Orange #142-148

Linked to "Off the Wall Friday"

Hands update and warm socks

Thank you to everyone that commented on my hands last week. My problem with it is the big black hole in the center, it has already been stitched with size 5 pearl cotton in a horizontal running stitch. I'm not about to take it out.

 The rest of the background is the same stitch only running vertical. Currently I'm entertaining some options; hands cut out of dyed organza, stenciling over the stitching or adding more stitching. I'm leaning toward the stenciling, using paintstiks so that the effect will be subtle. I am not a planner, I just dive in and start and figure things out as I go, this usually works for me but sometimes you just end up with a black hole. Right now the whole project is in timeout while I think and do other things.

I did finish another pair of warm wool socks, although it's been too hot to put them on for the picture.

The Weekly Leaf

This week I used the leftover crumpled and painted paper that had been used in week #8 and #10 leaves.

I was really drawn to this leaf that I had picked up in a friends yard.

It was cut out of the paper and fused to my fabric.

Then stitched.

Week #31

Daily stitching updates

Gelli prints #208- 214

The blue one makes me happy.

Shades of Orange #135-141

Linked to "Off the Wall Friday"