It's Here!...

Brynwood Needleworks - "Summer Serenade - Bluebirds" Jelly Roll For Binding

Who would have thought that mail service from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin would take so long, but it's finally here! The jelly roll I need for the binding has arrived. I'm still working on the feathers, but plan to finish them today. 

Quilting the panel will be next on the agenda, and then I can add the binding. That won't all happen today, but it will happen soon. I've promised to share a closeup of the wall hanging when it's finished, and I'll also photograph it with the other two so you can see them the way I do...all together. I'm looking forward to that more than you know. I'm so enamored with this piece.

I'll close for now so I can get back to work. Fun times in my happy place...

It Finally Happened...

 

After seven years - illness-free -  I just came down with a cold. I forgot just how much I disliked being ill. Ugh!

So, today, I'm sharing three out-of-print items that I will be listing for sale in my Etsy shop. The first one is a leaflet by Barb Adams & Alma Allen (Blackbird Designs) called Summer Weekend. I looked online first and learned that the only other copy I could find was a "New" copy from Abe Books for $500. Yikes!

I'm offering this one for $95 here (free postage), and $125 on Etsy. It's gently used, but can go to someone else who will be able to sew up some of the designs for themselves. Here's a button if you'd like to purchase it...

HERE
 

Knits for Barbie Doll by Nicky Epstain is also out-of-print. This hardcover book is like NEW condition. You can purchase it HERE (free postage).

Finally, this is The Canvas Work Encyclopedia by Jane Zimmerman. It's also out-of-print, gently used (showing slight wear on the cover). It's available HERE for $35, which also includes free postage.

Sorry my post was late today. I'm going to make a fresh hot tea with honey, and head to my studio to concentrate on something other than how miserable I feel right now, and hoping Alka Seltzer Cold helps without putting me to sleep. See you again on Monday. Have a great weekend.

Stacking Hexie Flowers...

Brynwood Needleworks - Making Hexie Flowers

 

While Handsome and I did spend some time outdoors on this past weekend, I still managed to stitch quite a few hexies together to make flowers for my project. Even though I'm feeling great, I did just have major surgery less than two weeks ago. I need to keep reminding myself, so I don't overdo it.

 

I'm going to make more hexies this week, as I'm running out of fabric combinations with the choices I have left right now. I just need to fuse more hexie shapes to the backs of my small charms, and make those up, first.

 

Brynwood Needleworks - Back of Hexie Flower

I'm showing the back of one of the flowers to you so you can see all the teeny, tiny stitches I take to join the hexies together. It's very zen-like to hold the pieces in my hands and take these little stitches to join them. I'd share a short video if I thought you'd like to see me working. Let me know in the comments.

I'll leave the tacking stitches (white thread) in until I'm ready to trim and attach the flowers to my ground fabric. They keep everything neat and tidy at this point.

Tag will be here tomorrow (poor devil) to share some interesting news. I'll be back on Wednesday to share my progress with these. If you have the day off today, enjoy another day of the holiday weekend. It's going to be hot, hot outside, so you'll find me in a comfy chair with needle and thread...and my morning coffee.

 

Plum Sweet Hexies...

Brynwood Needleworks - Plum Sweet Hexies

In the spirit of doing a little more handwork, I did an inventory of what I have in process that I can work to finish now. One of the projects I've been overlooking is the bag of hexies that I've already begun.

 

These are hexies created using a fabric line from Blackbird Designs called Plum Sweet. I've had these since 2016 (I've written about them before HERE, too), so I don't even know if this line is still available, but I have an idea to finish these into a nice quilt.

I'm going to turn these into hexie flowers, and then they'll be appliqued' to a whole cloth background. I have lovely solid colored Moda fabric, so I'll use some of that as the ground fabric. I'm going to play with some layouts, and then decide whether or not the finished piece will be a bed scarf (to lay across the foot of a bed), a lap quilt, or a table cover.

I need to sew the light borders to the outside of the Everlasting quilt before I can embroider the lavender and bees, so this project will be what I'll work on until I can comfortably sit at my machine again. I'm looking forward to it! (It's about time, don't you think?)

Quilt Top Accompli'...

Brynwood Needleworks - Garden Magic Quilt Top (pre-longarm)

I finished my quilt top on Sunday. It's a perfect size for our queen-size guest bed. I'll still need to sandwich the top, batting and backing together, and then I'll be able to mount it onto a frame and do the machine quilting. Last stage will be binding, and my goal is to have that step (and then the quilt) done very soon.

For anyone interested, this fabric line was called Garden Magic from Blackbird Designs for Moda. I really like the quaintness of it. Sweet flowers and patterns, along with a nice selection of colors, but not too girly that a guy would be offended. Oh, the fabrics are very soft, too!

Handsome is particularly smitten with this quilt-in-progress. He thinks the finished quilt will make a comfy cover-up for an occasional afternoon nap. I think he's right.

So, I'm feeling very accomplished for this week already. Let's see what reveals itself as the week progresses, shall we?