Happy February!
Happy to say the month started with sunny skies and quite cool mornings here in Marion County Florida.
I have been hand embroidering and slow stitching a few pieces since the first of the month. In fact I have been doing quite a bid of stitching since the new year, I'm seeing this as my Stitching Year or my year of stitching.
First up I did the K3n.clothtales SAL piece for week 5 with a prompt or idea of hidden secrets using the EPP for a hexie piece. I have to admit I wasn't too sure about this because I have never done EPP. It was easier than I ever thought. My little hidden secrets story is years and years ago I did a Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt using the template in the photo and cutting each piece out with scissors and adding the stitch line on each piece. I ironed all the stitch lines so I could piece the quilt. I never thought I would do another.
Each piece for Week 5 came from scraps of fabrics of quilts I have made over the 30 odd years.
I completed the stitching on the Airmid goddess piece, the pattern is from the Dancing Goddesses Etsy shop.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DancingGoddesses?ref=shop-header name&listing_id=1479656818&from_page=listingIt's a small piece of pre-printed fabric about 5x7 inches the design is about 5 inches. I will figure out a finish for it soon.
Yesterday afternoon I started to stitch a very meditative piece gifted to me at Christmas, the design is on pre-printed fabric in a spiral sashiko style.
The fabric is very thin so I backed it with cotton batting.
I'm using a variegated sashiko thread that came with the printed fabric. The lines are supposed to be washable I just hope the thread is colorfast.
I am thinking of using the spiral piece as part of a wall hanging I have brewing in my mind. I just love the look of the spirals.
Later today I will do the February block in the Kathy Schmitz's SAL Woven Wreaths. I'm adding my post over at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.
https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2024/02/sow-sunday-stitching.html
The 2 Crabapple Hill Studios patterns arrived early this week, I just love the cute little witches Meg Hawkey designs. These are blocks 2 and 3 somehow I missed blocked .
On another medium I am make a few paper crafted pockets, these are made using 12x12 sheets of scrapbooking paper.
February is National Embroidery Month
EPP is wonderful, isn't it?? Your hexies are pretty and your Sashiko spirals would indeed be soothing and meditative as you stitch round around. You have certainly started the year running with all those pretty stitching projects.
ReplyDeleteI really like your spiral sashiko project! Looks like a very enjoyable piece to stitch on. Cute Crabapple Hill designs, too!
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