Marching Along With Some Slow Sunday Stitching

Here we are on the 1st Sunday in March so I'm going to post a few stitching projects I have in mind for the month and beyond.

I purchased this cute little wool applique kit from Through the Needle's Eye.  It includes everything

you need to complete the 3 Potstickers plus the bonus egg pattern below.  Also, a package of sunflower seeds which I will start this week.

Yesterday I began to craft a new Goddess piece this time using the slow stitch approach, much like the way I made the K3n.clothtales week 7 heart.

I chose the green template for my first piece, traced it onto a piece of muslin fabric, loaded my needles with random pieces of floss too long for my Orts jar.

I always save the longer threads from my stitches in a little bag so when I am making a little stitchery I can pull pieces from it.

I began stitching random bits of  mostly floral scrap fabrics onto the base of the goddess, moving them about until I liked the direction they were going.

Then midway through, I switched the direction of the scraps.

                                                         

I changed the way I placed the scraps again and then proceeded up her arms.  I just need to do the head.

Once all the fabric scraps are placed I will start some random stitching and add in some hand embroidery stitching as well.  Once all the stitching is completed I will place the original template on top, cut out the goddess and put her on a background fabric.  Here is the heart I mentioned above, when the heart began it was just a traced heart onto muslin than I added the scraps and did the stitching, added the heart and button, placed the original template on top and cut it out resulting in the heart below.

I will be working on the goddess piece today for my slow Sunday stitching and linking this post up at Kathy's Quilts here:https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2024/03/slow-sunday-stitching.html

Also this month I will work on the Kathy Schmitz Woven Wreaths SAL piece for March, it's a cute little bee.  Tomorrow is week 10 of the k3n.clothtales SAL and Week 4 of the Woolie Friends Dancing Tulips SAL.  If interested here are the links 

https://www.youtube.com/@k3n.clothtales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0BqAW2n4To

https://www.facebook.com/groups/woolenoak