A couple years ago I made a bunch of totes and purses to send to the gallery in southern IL. I used a lot of experimental pieces of patchwork as the outsides of the bags.
I lined this one in red with tiny pin dots and made 2 pockets in the lining.
The pile of sale fliers were inside on the first picture to make it stand up by itself. I never thought about them being in the second picture until I got to the computer. I guess no one is going to hire me as their photographer, LOL.
Are any others interested in the positive/negative black and white prints? Some of the prints are more gray looking because there is a close to 60/40 relationship of the 2 colors within the prints. I tend to be drawn to the more graphic ones but I figure I should have a little bit of the other ones in my collection. This is a portion of my pos/neg group. I have a couple ideas that I want to try with them.
Here is my first anemone bloom. They usually bloom in Sept. so they're a few days early. I know this picture is a little blurry but I didn't want to get my feet wet walking through the dew this morning to get a better picture.
I like the shape of the buds on this plant.Thank you for your concern about my headache. I was able to squelch it early in the day both days but then I have the one day of feeling "dull" afterwards. I will go shopping at Wal-Mart this morning. I can do that while I feel dull!
I don't deal with humidity very well. I also don't like air conditioning all that well, and since I don't have central air, the house is cooled very unevenly with 2 window units near the center of the house. I finally did turn on the A/C yesterday afternoon and the stickiness is gone. My energy has returned a little but I can't say I accomplished anything yesterday. I looked at the leftovers from 2 previous quits and admired them. That took about an hour!! LOL.
Last night I embroidered another of Laurel Burch's animals for the quilt I will eventually make for the guest room twin bed. Now I have 4 done, at least 20 to go.
It's a dreary, gray morning, but they aren't promising us very much (if any) rain out of this front moving through. The Canadian cold front should be here this afternoon. Thank you Canada!
This is how I spent the afternoon yesterday, having a ripping good time while talking to friends. I decided the first border wasn't wide enough to really give the "hole" appearance that I had when I showed it with the wider border. I have 2 more borders to rip and then I can cut new ones.
Below is one of the little critters that fly through my yard. I thought is was a cicada killer but found out now it is a dragonfly. I know my flowers, not the bugs.
They are predicting some much needed rain later today and maybe tomorrow. Our grass is turning brown and a lot of the perennials are going into their autumn stage. I think it has been about 2 weeks since we had rain. I remember it rained the day my brother left, Aug. 3rd.Thank you to all who reminded me about the time delay in picture taking years ago. The picture shown is a school picture, with the teacher in the top row center, sitting down with a book on her lap.
Some of the ladies I used to work with at the quilt shop are coming today for pizza and fun. I have a couple errands to run before they get here so today I will show you an old picture.This picture was taken in May, 1893. My grandmother on my father's side is the girl seated in the front left with her hands on her knees. She is 10 years old in this picture. She died when my dad was 6 years old, in the influenza epidemic in 1920, so I never knew her.
I guess the photographers never said "smile" in those days. They are such a somber bunch!
On the tote bag pattern I showed 2 days ago there is a bag with pintucking. To do it you need the right equipment. You have to have a double needle. The pattern calls for a 3.0 which means there is a 3 mm space between the points of the needles. A lot of my packages were purchased back when Pfaff was still putting their name on packages. You can see they come in lots of different sizes and even a triple needle is available, but not for pintucking. The 6.0 is for doing the double row of stitching when hemming a T-shirt, to look like the stitch from the manufacturers. The one shown is a regular one; I also have a ballpoint one somewhere.
The tote bag pattern also called for a 3 groove pintuck foot. I see I have a 5 groove and a 7 groove which means the pintucks wouldn't stand up as tall. I also have the foot at the bottom that is a single groove with a side panel that will ride on your previous pintuck so you can have evenly spaced tucks. You can also do fancy stitching down between 2 tucks with this foot. It looks like I may need to buy a 3 groove foot.
I do a lot of playing on little samples that sometimes just stay as samples, never made into anything. The next 2 pictures are my playing with a double needle and no pintuck foot. You will still get a tuck without the foot, just not as tall. These are hand dyed fabrics from Cherrywood.