New page of leaves

I finally put up a new page with all the weekly leaves from this year, you can find it just below the header at the top of this page, or you can click here. It would have been much easier if I had started at the beginning of the year and just updated it every week, but it's done and I will keep it updated.

I did get the little square wooden blocks pieces painted for the Art Guild to sell at the Art and Craft show in November.

Back in early September we had a small disaster in our kitchen, the refrigerator water filter leaked and warped the wood floor. We took out the pieces that were damaged, but since it's old we can't match it so new flooring was ordered. The flooring finally arrived, so this weekend I get to help remove the rest of the current floor. On Monday we have a friend coming over to help put down the new floor. This time it will be vinyl planks that look like wood and won't be destroyed by water leaks.

2018 Weekly Leaf wk#42

2018 Daily Stitching #3 days 23-29
Lots of french knots.

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

Road trip, graduations and birthdays

I have spent the last week celebrating with part of our family. We drove to western Washington and spent most of our time at my daughter's house outside the small town of Eatonville. My daughter has had various careers, but decided a few years ago to finally finish her college degree. She did that last Friday, graduating from the Tacoma campus of the University of Washington. I'm a proud Mom. While there my son that lives in Tacoma also joined us for the celebrations. His son, my oldest grandson, graduated from middle school and we went to the celebratory brunch at the school. Then to make it an even more celebratory week we celebrated birthdays, three of them. One of our grand daughters was home for the summer from college and we visited her at her job as a barista/front desk clerk at Whitaker's bunkhouse on the way up Mt Rainier. It was a fun week, lots of activity and family time.

The Weekly Leaf

This week I used the leaf that started out as golden yellow hand dyed fabric, stamped with soy wax using my big leaf tjap. Then it was dunked in the indigo pot. It's on the left in the picture below.

After being trimmed to size.

Week #24

The first 24 weeks of the year, last row isn't stitched on yet but will be soon.

Daily Stitching updates

Gelli prints #159-#166

Shades of Orange #86-#93

Linked to "Off the Wall Friday"