Drum roll, please . . . 🥁🥁🥁 I got my #mendandmakefriends patch from the talented @sinceremoose! I had the perfect place to use this golden patch. The stitches remind me of waves and surfs and seas. They remind me of the treks my little family of four has made to the California coast, just to be near the ocean. The movement, the sound, the crashing of waves, the swimming, the digging in the sand, the sunrises and sunsets. Oh, how I miss all of it while sitting here, in the dead of winter, snow on the ground, ice in the air, all around us bleak and brown. Your little patch has given me hope, Julia. Thank you.
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Wool-applique lettering complete on my #mendandmakefriends patch! I tweaked a technique I learned from Maggie Bonanomi’s book, Pure & Simple - her work is simple and unfussy and lovely. For her letters, she cuts thin strips of wool, bends them into letters, and appliques them down with a whipstitch. I couldn’t bend the strips with the same elegance, so I folded the wool to make the letters instead. I kinda love how the letters turned out - now for embellishment! That variegated gray/blue perle cotton from Sue Spargo is calling . . . but what to do with it? Stumped. I can only hope that my mending-patch pal @sinceremoose thinks this patch has potential.
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Grateful for #mendandmakefriends because I haven't been focused on my passion lately. I've been feeling fragmented, pulled in too many directions. But today I sat in an elementary school with my husband and my 5th grader, waiting, waiting for the results of a chess tournament. Four matches, each an hour-plus long. Seven hours of mostly waiting. I found time to sew tiny stitches, take them out, and start again. What fun! To have the time! Thank you @gatherwhatspills for the opportunity to join in, and to my new mending buddy @sinceremoose - how fun to *meet* today. Patch is underway! And my Charlie won one game - he is a good player. And so much more importantly to me, a great sport ❤
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What a sweet picture!! I love it!!! He is a sweet little guy isn’t he!
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He’s getting so big! The wonder in his eyes says it all 🙂 We enjoyed the snow here today – it’s finally feeling like winter!
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What a doll…I just want to sqeeeeze those checks! I miss the snow of UT. It did rain for about 5 minutes here in Phoenix this morning!
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