My Women's March

 Women's March Jan. 21, 2017

 

I finished it!  A few days late. 

I really like how the knit fabric worked for couching the letters.  

This part also has 'forest land' added.

And I added a few of the facts...like how many marches there were that day and in how many cities. They don't match up.  I added them anyway.

I worked on the 'forest lands' from this angle, below.

It's not pressed yet, or signed. 

When I washed out the ink for the words, the backing bled, so now there is more pink than white, overall. 

[i am not good at thoroughly washing out dye on small things] 

My daughter finished her puzzle!

Did I mention I totally messed up mine while trying to glue it?

I got Ashley the glue you use over the TOP of the puzzle!!

[in other words...don't be like mom.]

Over the years, I have tried to do a dollhouse for myself. Never worked out. 

This time I am trying a 'camp site' instead. 

Basket crocheted by me. 

Popsicle stick table...not as easy to assemble as I always thought.

Popsicle stick trees in the back left. 

Glued to toothpicks and into a piece of bark.

Bare tree sticks assembled with help from Dan. 

He drilled the great big holes for them sticks.

The base is the tray from Costco that once held a bday cake. I kept the plastic cover too, in case I want a dust cover...although keeping

dust out of a camp site is an oxymoron.

No picture of it, yet, but I used another large plastic cake lid to 

put over my thread caddie.

The Women's March

Last Thursday, 2 of MY women went to our state capital, Olympia, on a class field trip. They got to meet 2 Women Elected last Nov., 

who represent the local areas.

This is my daughter, her daughter, and Senator Emily Randall. She heard there were some Kitsap Kids in the house, so she went out to greet them!

The other representative they met was Michelle Caldier, the Republican member of the house, but no picture with her, darn it, because we can be bi-partisan too!

I figure this is a good day to update my Women's March 2017 WIP 

[work-in-progress]  I am not done, but the Marches March on today!!

I crocheted teeny tiny PussyHats! 

Working with the 'yarn-strips-cut-from-leggin's' was so much fun!!  They aren't stitched down yet, just basted. But I am sooooo glad I took this pic, because I can now see my M is not quite right.

The 'bird's eye view of the Marching Women.

The whole piece. And yes it is wobbly, and will probably not lose that charming feature. The round blueish part?  Why that's our Big Blue Marble.

And because this little guy could not have been born without a Woman, my other daughter Steph.  He is really here to show him playing with the toy his Other Mother made for him. 

Other Mother?  All the eggs a woman has are made while in the womb of HER mother, so in essence, we are carrying our future grandchildren.

Another Completion, a Start, a Middle, a Puzzle

MonkeySquirrel click to enlarge

This. 

Well...it started out like the Bear I made for #6, something to teeth/chew/slobber on, and washable! Along the way I changed my mind and tried for a squirrel. Near the finish, it looked more like a monkey. 

This one is for Max, #7. His mama likes squirrels. 

His dad is into elephants, but I already made him one of those.

So who is into monkeys?

  I started this 'scene' in Nov. or Dec. 2018.

I have been adding bits to it as they came along. 

I just started stitching, so I consider it a 'start'.

The "Women's March 2017" needs working on. 

This is the "middle" part of this post. I think.

[Click on the label on the right side to see all the posts with this work in them.]

As I looked at the whole cloth, I figured it's time to add the words to it. Which led to an idea to try couching yarn to shape the letters. No pink yarn, but this pair of girls leggins' has pink in it. Since I had been given permission to 'do what you want with these, mom,' I cut them up!

As you can see, knit fabric, when pulled, curls up into nice tubes. 

Rather yarn looking, right?

Now to try it out.

Dan decided to finish the puzzle I had started. I sat in that chair in the background and crocheted. He used his phone to enlarge the picture, so he could find things, without taking a photo of it. No magnifying glass around here. Need to change that for sure.

I got puzzles for the families. This one is now done!

[we don't have children to interrupt, mess with, lose bits]

First of the 7 For 7 Grandchildren & Women's March

For #2 above, for #1 below.

I am hoping to make each one slightly different with the bands [called sashing] of color. 

All the girls got to pick the squares and the sashing colors. 

It's to actually help make the tops big enough to fit a flat twin sheet.

I will use the sheet for the backing, but assemble these like duvet covers, and not actually quilts.

Dan found this rock. It had split. 

I wondered if the dark spot is dino droppings? 

I am still working on the "Women's March."

Above, I am trying to depict buildings...I need to work on that space, but other areas are coming along nicely.

I wanted to back it with a sheer in pink. I had a white curtain panel part, so I dyed it with a tad bit of red RIT. Perfect. 

Back side. Click to enlarge.

Transparency. 

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The Women's March 2017 (WIP)

Struck a visible cord.  

The flow of Pussyhats between buildings, in a bird's eye view.

I knew I would have to put thread to fabric.

While scrounging around in my foot stool, 

looking for something else, of course, I pulled out a "thing" I had stitched together for something else....of course. 

It was perfect!  It was mostly white, for pink threads to show up on.

Assembled from random scraps of mostly textured cloths.

All thin, or sheer, or even holey!

click to enlarge, to see the pink pen dots.

Stitched together, but with angles, like buildings. 

There was even a blue-green-round-ish shape already pinned to it, 

that could represent the planet. I added woven wheel stitches for all 7 continents.  There are 12, buttonhole stitch wheels for the women/girls in my family, starting with my mother.* I also want to add stitches that represent women I know.

It already had the  'curtain rod' channel stitched down, better known as a "hanging sleeve" in the quilt world.

Much counting has gone into this piece, they aren't just random spots. 

First I put in 673 X/+ marks for the marches world wide.  That was a bitch to count out, so I got smart for the 847 more spots I wanted to add for all the cities signed up. With a washable crayola marker, I just spotted away. Now I am covering them with thread. Two side by side stitches, like an = sign. 

[my french knots tend to get sloppy]

673 marches in 847 cities?  I cannot find an answer to that question.

*my mother was forever disgusted that she made far less money than her "boss", and did FAR MORE work than he ever did.