Texture and Happy Mail

cell phone pic won't enlarge, so i will take with camera.

Aurora. Storm. Quake. 

I didn't think the stitching would show up much yet. 

I am happy I stand corrected.

Even the small amount of purple stitching I have added so far, is showing the up/down that happens when you stitch horizontally. 

Happy Mail!  A swap with another patch pal. The patch is on velveteen? I love it.

Laurie also sent extras, as most of us do!  Thank you Laurie!

Not sure I can put it on the front of the PatchBook, with the first 2. 

I will figure something out.

Patchy Fun For Mother's Day

We are having open doors and windows weather!

There is a robin at the birdbath, drinking the water.

Bring you a little closer...

Ahh....there she is!  The bath is among the flower pots, on top of a flower pot, because the bath is a bit short.  I guess they never liked my DIY bathes from the last few years. I had to go buy a 'real' one!  It wasn't costly. Just really short.

Moving on to the Patches.  Gah these are soooo fun!

These 3 are for swappers who wanted to play. They were mailed yesterday, but I don't think any come to my blog, so....

Am taking another 'class' from Jude Hill, and the 'prompt' is "green."

I wasn't going to 'play' until I was reordering the chaos in my bucket. 

My there were a lot of green scraps!  I stacked them as I came to them, chose this ''30's print" for it's greenyness, and started at the bottom/selvage.  I didn't really do much tweaking, just picked off the stack and lay it down, working my way up the fabric. It's nearly 2 couch cushions long. 

Other works turning up.  Not much stitching on them yet, except for the middle one.  It suddenly reminded me of mom, of her red, blue, and lots of white, wardrobe.  Then I dug out the black thread, which I don't really like using, hard to see. But mom had bought it for a needlework she did over a decade ago, probably a lot longer than that even.  

Happy Mother's Day Mom!  

I picture you and dad having the retirement you never had together.

And Happy Mother's Day to those women I know, who are still with us.

Stuff

Patches still going strong. On the 'wander' patch, I satin stitched all around the edge of the words part/scrap. Like a regular patch you would see on...well anything you put a patch on.

Seems like triangles need to pair up with squares lately. 

Except for this next one...

This one is really basic, for now. I stitched the 2 triangles together, [before I could match them to a square]  wrong sides together, seam allowance to the right side. Maybe that flower needs to become a roof on the square??

Below....came across this in the search for something else. This was started before Ashley had children! [almost 10 years now!]

I cut apart a works I had made while taking one of Jude's classes. There is part of a soda can, a lid to bottle, labels from clothes, an accidental dinosaur that appeared when I was trying out stitches....Oh, and the ribbon I pressed and melted when I was giving it a bit of flattening.

For all the years the deers have been coming heres, 

they haven't ventured into the veggie garden....until now....

This deer is standing in a planter box, the blue thing, nibbling strawberry plants in another box.

Guess we won't have cherries from those blossoms. I will worry about what they are getting onto when and if the time comes.

Stitchy Stuff

Back of second quilt to be finished of the 7for7 Grandchildren Quilts.

All animal fabrics, since this one is for our animal whisperer. Most of these prints are from my quilty friends, those generous women who sent me lots of fabrics for these, and other quilts.

As you can see, I used the fabrics as whole as possible.

The snap tape I am using for the opening for these quilts, since they will be used as duvet covers....or not. Up to the child. They may be used for tents...should I tell them they can possibly crawl inside the quilt???

A patch. I came across this one in the black hole  foot stool. 

There is a 'plain' version posted on IG.

I have signed up for Jude Hills "last class". Patchwork in Perspective.

AND during the March Mending Mayhem on IG, some wanted to swap "patches" to be used as...patches on...well....anything. 

This is the debut patch, made by a fellow Scot, a thistle fancier, and an 

Overall's wearer, on the cover of my "Patchbook." 

Patchbook cover

Not sure if those pix will stay, I just copy/pasted pix of Overalls. 

click to enlarge

This is what I mailed off the my swap-pal. I laughed when I realized we BOTH used flamingos on our patches. I also gave her a xmas card I didn't send in 2018, because it's a little more 'arty' than many on my holiday list. AND I crocheted her a "thistle", that I made up as I went along. 

Anyway....the timing of the swap/mending event and Jude's class made me think about other bits I have made...and how much I enjoy making wallies, and after all, patches are just small wallies...right?  

So I am going to make weekly patches, and keep track of them in this 

re-purposed storybook. [not a favorite of mine, of course, just a blah one]

Patchbook inside flaps

This is the inside front cover, collage bits added, including the cover to a Spring Catalog from a wonderful seed company.  The bitty card came with the patch that is gracing the front of the book, for now. I pinned it to the cover. 

It may stay, it may change.

The next few pages are these, to give you an idea of how I will make this a "planner" style re-purposed book.  Blank stickers to cover stepsisters frowny faces, for writing on. The paint blobs are from another online class.  [I didn't get much further than that, I just don't handle a paintbrush like I do a needle.]