Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #23

3" square, embroidered circle.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #22

6" square, appliqued circle, embroidery stitches

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #21

9" square, appliqued circle, embroidery stitches



The past seven days

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #19

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

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #18

6" square, appliqued circle, embrodery

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #16

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

Monday, January 23, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #15

6" square, appliqued circle, embroidery

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #14

3" square, appliquéd circle, beads



All seven from this past week.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #13

9"square, appliqued silk noil circle, embroidery

Friday, January 20, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #12

3" square, chain stitch embroidery

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #11

6"square, appliqued circles, buttonhole stitch and beads

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #10

3" square, fly stitch and french knots

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #9

3" square, appliqued circle, buttonhole stitch

Monday, January 16, 2012

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.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #7

9" square, appliqued circle, embroidery

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #6

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

Friday, January 13, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #5

6' square, running stitch and stem stitch

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #4

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

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #3

6" square, running stitch in pearl cotton

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Sixty five days to 65, day #2

6" square, appliqued circle and running stitch circles

Monday, January 9, 2012

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.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

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.