100 days of stitching finished

I did the last four pieces of the SAQA 100 day challenge and then spent a long time arranging and rearranging the squares before finally sewing them together.

SAQA 100 Days of Creativity

7/1/19 - 10/8/19

45" x 45"

I've started a new project to take its place, I'm going to participate in the "25 million stitches" project. You can read about it here. I've got my 15"x 32" piece of muslin ready to go.

2019 Weekly Leaf  week 41

Gelli print on vintage silk

2019 Daily Stitching #4, days 43-49

As of today my hubby is 3/4's of the way through his Chemo infusions, so far everything is going pretty much as planned and it looks like his surgery will be in early December. So far extreme fatigue has been the worst side effect, and I hope that's as bad as it gets. Thanks to all who have wished us well.

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow SundayStitching"

SAQA Auction

The SAQA Benefit Auction has been going on for the past few weeks and the piece I donated is still available. You can see it and all the others still available here.

2019 Weekly Leaf #40
gelli print on cotton

2019 Daily Stitching #4 days 36-42
I've started some layering.

SAQA100 Days of Creativity days 89-95, only 5 days to go

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and"Slow Sunday Stitching"

Some quick indigo

I've had a busy week, Don's daughters and their husbands were here so I stayed out of the studio for the most part only getting minimal stitching done. So yesterday I mixed up an indigo pot and today I spent a bit of time turning a few things blue.

A loose drapey top, a dress, a very large linen gauze scarf(it's folded in half on the line) and a smaller rayon scarf. There's a trip with my daughter and granddaughter in my future to somewhere warm and humid after we get through hubby's chemo and surgery. More about that as time goes by.

2019 Weekly leaf #39
Gelli print on vintage silk taffeta

2019 Daily Stitching #4, days 29-35

SAQA 100 Days of Creativity, days 82-88

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching".

Miscellaneous

First before anything else, if you commented last week, Thank you. Blogger will not let me respond to comments and I'm also back to not receiving them in my email. Frustrating because I have no idea what to change or how to correct it. I also discovered that last week was my 600th post, you'd think by now I would have this figured out :).

I've been playing with scraps again, I have a little orange bucket that holds assorted blue, orange, brown and a few other colors of scraps and I'm piecing them into semi circles.

I have no idea where this idea is going, but it allows me to just sit and sew, one of my favorite things to do.

Now for something totally unrelated, I'm on the Board of Trustees for our local Library and this past weekend I went to a Trustees Workshop. The sharing of ideas and things that work for other small town libraries was very energizing. It also made me realize how much I miss that type of interaction. I haven't been to a fiber related retreat, conference or workshop in several years, I'm thinking it must be time to do that again.

2019Weekly Leaf, week #15
I have a coleus that has some wonderful fuchsia and green leaves, so this week I borrowed one of the leaves, gel printed it in green and did some fuchsia stitching.

2019 Daily Stitching #2, days 8-14

I love the texture that the crossed running stitch creates. Now it's time to make a decision on what to do in the center.

I'll be linking up with"Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching"

Scraps

I've put together one more top out of donated scraps, but now have another large bag full in my sewing studio. Here's the top

And here are the bags of scraps, many of them are fat quarter size or larger.

I have a friend whose Mom makes lots of donation quilts from scraps so I'm going to give her most of them, I have enough of my own.

Speaking of scraps, this is the container of scraps I'm using for the landscape project. I shove everything back in and put the lid on everyday. It feels like it's getting fuller, I must have everything stirred up pretty well.

72 days of Landscapes
Days 46 - 52

day #46

watercolor crayon, commercial and hand dyed fabric

Day #47

hand dyed fabric, yarn, pearl cotton and gel pen

Day #48

dyed paper towels

Day #49

dyed paper towels

Day #50

Sumingashi marbled hand made paper, dyed paper towel, yarn

Day #51

watercolor crayon, hand dyed silk and cotton, rice paper

Day #52

cotton fabric, screen printed fabric, dyed paper towels and micron sigma pen

2019 Weekly Leaf

Week #8   a gelli print left over from a few years ago

2019 Daily Stitching days 46-52

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching"