Good morning Tuesday,
We begin a slight warm up today and tomorrow-so I will be food shopping tomorrow. After that we are going down into into the low single digits.
Last night I grabbed the other side of the winter scene in the magazine for inspiration. I kinda like this one too but my tree trunk needs much improvement for the next try.
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The other day when I was going through the Sashiko items-I found two pieces that would make into small pillows. I grabbed the indigo cloth first and stitching with white Sashiko thread. I should have started the other one first (a beige fabric using greens for the dragonflies) so my poor quality stitches would not show up so well-sigh.
This is just a simple stitch-a running stitch-but so far I can't get the stitches to be all the same size. I had taken it out so many times-that I am not going to do that anymore going forward. My eyes are not as good as before, and I went through my needles to find one that would work better for me-I did find one. I have watched videos on this and most so an entire line of stitches before pulling the thread through.
(Sorry about the poor photos-haven't decided if I want to spend a lot of money on a camera or not)
A couple weeks ago I decided on a layout for the next slow stitch bag-and have it all pinned. I use small quilt curved pins. I do not have much more of my hand dyed fabrics left-so using my stash of purchased and gifted hand dyes along with a few of my own. I used up a lot of my own hand dyes cutting out the lining for the bags.
Stay warm and safe with this extremely cold arctic air moving through.
Oh i KNOW!! Starting Friday night we are not getting above freezing til Monday... down to 9 Sunday night...with some precip predicted... brrr.... You can thank my Son in Law who complained that our Winters here were not cold enough... He misses CA and doesn't miss an opportunity to put his new home down.. lol
ReplyDeleteAre you going to build up your tree with more layers? I don't know what you mean i think the dragonflies are gorgeous!!! Stay warm girlfriend!! Hugs! deb
Good morning, No when I try a tree again like this it needs to be less wide-or perhaps more texture. that sounds pretty cold for your area. brrrr not looking forward to it-this house is pretty cold but I keep the thermostat at 72 to save money. My Mom had hers at 68 that's a bit too cold for me. and where my computer is-no heat in this room. well your son in law should like the cold temperatures you will be getting haha I love dragonflies so had forgotten about these two pieces I picked it-at the time thought it would be much easier than trying to mark a pattern on to cloth-
Deletestay warm-hugs