Beautiful things take time to make.
Beautiful newly dyed embroidery thread.
I started out only wanting to make red. But just let it go where it wanted to.
Color is beautiful.
Be creative, my friends! I am machine quilting today. How about you in all this snow?
Yes, I am on one this week. Hustling around trying to get the computer situation fixed. My computer guy is very disorganized and has cost me lots of extra time. Customer satisfaction is everything these days…Take care of the customer seems very easy, doesn’t it? One more trip back today to return something and then three will be working. I might cave and go for the big Apple for myself after this fiasco. And then my lab is sick and at the vet-she ate a cake on the front seat of my car-homemade and a gingerbread cake. Silly things -that as the vet says-she does this every December. Must not like how busy I am.
So, very little time has been spent on quilts. I have been hand stitching on my crinkle quilt. Pieces pulled
for something like this.
. Basting done for #5 which needs to be done before Christmas.
I think #6 and #7 might be for the week after Christmas unless a huge chunk of time opens up. Haven’t given up yet. And trying some more screen printing. Screens from Lynne Krawczyk.
Definitely addictive.15-30 minute bits of time in my studio.
I am going to put some of these threads in my Etsy shop as several people have requested that I dye some for them. But I will put them here first. Two batches:
The first one is Fire and consists of 5 skeins of hand dyed DMC embroidery thread- 10$.
The second is my favorite is : Spring Sky 5 skeins of hand dyed embroidery thread-10$.
Great for hand stitching on your art quilts. E-mail me if you would like them. If not they will be on Etsy tomorrow.
Whew -the weekend is almost here!
Be creative, my friends.
ADD: Hand dyed thread is sold- more to come in my Etsy shop.
I love little things that make my job easier. And I always learn something at a workshop that I can apply to what I am doing. This little scissors is perfect for ripping out tight seams. It’s actually a suture scissors. I bought one from Deb Kurasik at my workshop on Wednesday. The stitch length she recommended for paper piecing was 1.5-tiny -so ripping out was not fun. They really helped .
Also, I remembered some table extensions that we had used in a fabric dyeing class last spring that put the table at just the right heighth for working in a standing position. When I asked Betsy, my friend who is in charge of organizing the programs where they came from she smiled and went and got me a set of four from the closet.
PVC tubing that had been cut! This thirty dollar table is now the perfect heighth for cutting and standing. And I thought it was another gadget to be purchased. Why don’t I think of things like that? (yes, it’s ready for binding 🙂
I must move with my day. I am Mr. mom this weekend-dad and mom rolled into one as Marc is skiing in VT with his friends. I am tempted to begin something with this beautiful blue linen I dyed this summer, velvet and a drawer full of silk scraps I pick up along my way. I have a show I entered and must have a piece for in three weeks. Fun-remind me I feel no pressure!
Happy Sewing ,my friends!