I think all my blog friends must be despairing of me ever coming back, but like a bad penny I always turn up eventually.
These past few weeks have gone in a whirl and there are more busy times to come....will get to that.
Through it all I have managed to have a finish of one of the later pages....and may have to extend my expected finish date the rate I am going.
This page is about playing with textures. I attended a workshop at the quilt group last year where we learned a couple of techniques. This one was free motion stitching layers and then burning the top layer. Well I used that as a background for a collage, something I am coming to love, but still learning.
The leaf on the right is a piece of crazy patch from many moons ago, and carried the leaf shapes across to the second piece of burned fabric.I stitched the seams in gold thread. The check leaf on the left is the same pattern as the taffeta fabric I had my first long dress made from when I was 17.
At present I am home, but for the past two weeks have been helping Himself prepare for a hip replacement operation. He came over to see the surgeon, and was fortunate enough to get a date this month so there have been a flurry of visits to various people, and lots of paperwork.
We spent a week at serenity getting things organised there. The op is next week, and he is here with me now. I have had to wrap him in cotton wool because the surgeon said if there is even a suggestion of broken skin he wont operate because of the chance of infection.
He will stay with me again after the op, and then I will go back to Serenity with him until he is able to look after himself again.
This afternoon I have escaped to the back room where the computer is determined to have some time to myself.
While I was at serenity I had a couple of days sewing with my friend and old neighbour, Julie. She has been working on a schwalm cushion cover I started her on about 5 years ago, so it was good to see how much she is achieving with a bit more encouragement.
Julie is a great friend, with a lovely nature and is very supportive of me.
Here is a photo of her piece. She had never even heard of pulled thread work or schwalm before she started this so even though it has been a long time project she has done well. She was always an enthusiastic learner and took to everything I taught her with enthusiasm.
The weather was lovely while at the farm, and the flowers are all coming out in bud.
It is almost wine o'clock now, a time I look forward to at the moment
happy stitching my friends till next time.......
