Today I am
homesick for my northern roots, it's late November, less than a week
till Thanksgiving and I long for the crisp cool air, rapidly falling
leaves of assorted colors and the familiar surroundings of New
Jersey, instead I'm in the land of perpetual green aka Florida.
Today I can fool myself just a litte, it's a gray rainy autumn day,
I'm inside where the ar conditioning is cool so it feels like autumn,
and the leaves of my sycamore tree have turned the usual paperbag
brown and mostly fallen to the ground so it looks like a northen
autumn day until you step outside and are hit in the face with the
humidity and warm temps and know it is autumn in Florida. After
twenty odd years in Florida I am always surprised when the
homesickness grabs hold of me.
On this rainy
Sunday I have started stitching the hand embroidery for the third
block of the Hocuspocusville quilt. I had this all ready to begin a
few weeks ago but I started on the Holly King and just kept on
stitching. As you can see I'm off to a slow start but than thats
what Sundays are all about, slowing down, resting and taking time to
breathe and do some much loved hand stitching.
Here is a look at
the Holly King, all the hand embroidery is done now I need to decide
how I want to finish him.
After looking at the piece for a while I
think I should have crayon tinted his face so I decided to eventually
make another. I'm
not sure if I mentiond this in a previous post, the pattern for the
Holly King is from Urban Threads which offers patterns for hand and
machine embroidery. Here is a link
I
plan to keep stitching on block three for today and I
am linking up here once again for Slow Stitching Sunday http://www.kathysquilts.blogspot.ca/
Your Holly King is magnificent. I hope the home sickness fades soon. xx
ReplyDeleteCute sign on your third block. Your Holly King is very pretty with all the colors. You'll be happy when you are much warmer than those in NJ. :)
ReplyDeleteHolly King is wonderful. I look forward to seeing what he becomes. I don't think I will ever leave the Northeast. I love all four seasons and I can't imagine the holidays without the cold weather.
ReplyDeleteI think your Holly King looks wonderful, I'm not sure you need to redo him. I hope you made good progress on Block 3!
ReplyDeleteHow funny -- your link up on Kathy's Quilts was right next to another quilter working on the HocusPocus quilt! Very cute stitching! :)
ReplyDeleteFun block! I've added more color to some of my embroideries using colored pencils--maybe you can try that before making another block.
ReplyDeleteSorry you have been feeling homesick :-(. I love your Holly King as he is!
ReplyDeleteI feel for you....for 25 years I lived in the hottest, most humid areas in Australia....and hated it. This year we moved to the coolest state and I realise how unhappy I was for all that time....I just love the cool weather! Great stitcheries....enjoy your stitching!
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