At Long Last Blue Skies
8 hours ago
bits of fabric..old and new..photographs faded with age..memories that linger through the years..they are all pieces from my scrapbag..
I promised to post her finishes and I received these yesterday.
If you have a black cat handy, you're all set. If not, here's one for you *VBS*
A costume is good,and little spooks from days gone by were witches, goblins, scarecrows and ghosts and much, much more. You were only limited by your imagionation and your budget.
If happy haunting was to your liking, there were lots of characters to imitate...Mother Goose is a happy choice. As for me?? Well, I've managed to procure an invisiblity cloak much like Harry Potters. I can hand out treats without being seen!
Here's that old tutorial table runner. I was so happy to be finishing it up. And I had such a good start. Backing made, runner quilted,but I've managed to mis-place the dark red fabric I used, and of course nothing else pleases me. So the search continues, and the binding is on "hold" until I find it. Darn! And I was doing so well on 'finishes'.
Now along with our gloomy rainy, snowy weather...you'd think I'd be depressed...but not too much to show some Happy Halloween spirit! Hugs for all *VBS*
it's good to pause for a tally of how we are coming on our New Years Eve UFO Challenge. You gals are doing super well! We began on September 18th, and as of Oct. 20th we have managed to finish 39 of aging UFOs!! I think that is marvelous since each finish is a victory we couldn't quite manage to meet before. There certainly is strength in numbers!! So stitch on brave challengers...stitch on. And if you find a few minutes pop in and see what the gals are up to. I'm nearly the finish on my project #3. I had hoped to have it done last week,but....well, you know how that story goes..*VBS*
To this picture, taken October 1940, you can add 69 years. It hardly seems possible to me that this is a reality. I must have taken a wrong turn or missed an exit...I can be HERE already, can I?
But yes, I can, and I am and it seems to be o.k. this year. The day was a very nice one. Calls from good friends and family, a lovely surprise gift in the mail *VBS*, DD#1 arriving after work and with our supper. New fabric to share tomorrow, etc. It was a good day.
This is the one I started along with the directions, so I could take you through it step by step.
By Dec. 7th, I had it to this stage. Square vs. rectangle(which is easy to do) and then I just "quit" with it. Its one of my bad habits. I'm not proud of it, but I do acknowledge that I have a tendency to "set things aside" at a certain point and have difficulty getting back to them. Well, it's high time I did!! I had made quite abit more of the stratas than I needed. So I decided to enlarge this square to become a runner for my coffee table. I made 12 more of the sub-sets you see in the middle picture and added them to the ends in the correct order *VBS* I'm now to the point I need to find something in the Christmas fabric drawer for a backing. The binding will be either the nuetral background color or the dark red, I haven't decided. Next time I show it, it will be finished *VBS* and that feels sooooo good!