More Autumn is happening around here.
I like the glow that comes with the combo of the red with green and the sun...great mix!
Maples near the hospital car park.
and in the garden
The Acer by the back fence (magnolia in front right)
Deep colours in the bush by the back door. Which I thought was a blueberry bush, but the Gardener says no.
Indoors, I am waking up the Amaryllis. They are ready for it. Even stored in the shed since the spring, they all have a little growth.
This photo was taken on the 31st October.
And here - spot the difference from 1 week! Actually, the second one in had grown inches within a couple days! I think the 2 on the left are still thinking about it.
I love Amaryllis! You probably recall the regular reports last year! I woke the first one up in October last year - then bought some more. This year I waited til November, in hopes that they flower together near Christmas.
This past weekend was also the weekend we packed up the Christmas Shoe boxes to send for Operation Christmas Child.
The Thoughtful Man and I enjoy finding bits and pieces to put in our boxes. We like to select special specific things beyond toiletries and school supplies. I like to imagine who might receive the box. I heard about a girl who had recently began sewing for family and friends.
The box she got had sewing supplies 😁! So I thought i can do that! So the older girl has sewing things.
The younger girl has sharing things...fun stuff to do with friends or a sister.
The younger boy had Plasticine for making and games to do with friends.
The older boy, I am thinking likes building and music,like my son did. So his special things are a recorder and a small Meccano set. I hope they all enjoy them!
And then, here are all the boxes done by the people in our small church.
There is Pat, our organiser, trying to stay out of the photo!
How exciting to see that 30 children can have the joy of opening a box and discovering the treasures inside!
For more likes, check out the links on LeeAnna's blog.
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Thursday, 25 October 2018
I like Thankful Thursday
So, here I am post-op
now I am recovered/recovering... wearing sewing glasses with one glass removed! for sewing it isn't so great, but reading and computer, not so bad. And for long distance - my long distance glasses with the right glass taken out. Although the eye is not yet at full strength, it is so much better than before the op it is amazing.
The surgeon wants to do the other because of my shortsightedness and a 'mild' cataract. So, when I see her in Dec, we will find out how and when. I do know the difference between the 2 eyes is like seeing with the brilliance of LED lights and seeing with incandescent lights. One has a blueish hue and the other is definitely yellow.
I am doing a lot of winking type of activity!
I like having a go. Here is an experiment I am trying.
seeing if I can grow an avocado plant. I know they don't produce avocados when they are houseplants, but I'm seeing if it will make a new houseplant!
I like random things. When I went to London with my friends, we had a bite to eat at this cafe. Not the greatest, but it has good food and will change your order (brioche instead of bun, etc).
Love, Love the name! and also the phrase on the menu!
I like seeing patterns when I am out and about. I took this photo because I saw a face in the knot in the tree.
But when I looked at the photo, I also saw a doggie waiting to go walkies!
I like WhatsApp. Now my sisters and I can send random messages and photos and it doesn't cost.
This from one sister
and even a photo of a squirrel's hoard in the outhouse at their camp!
Right, now I need to get on with that Ramshackle project. I have been posting process photos during the week.
Go have a look at LeeAnna's blog where she has links to 'likes' others have posted.
now I am recovered/recovering... wearing sewing glasses with one glass removed! for sewing it isn't so great, but reading and computer, not so bad. And for long distance - my long distance glasses with the right glass taken out. Although the eye is not yet at full strength, it is so much better than before the op it is amazing.
The surgeon wants to do the other because of my shortsightedness and a 'mild' cataract. So, when I see her in Dec, we will find out how and when. I do know the difference between the 2 eyes is like seeing with the brilliance of LED lights and seeing with incandescent lights. One has a blueish hue and the other is definitely yellow.
I am doing a lot of winking type of activity!
I like having a go. Here is an experiment I am trying.
seeing if I can grow an avocado plant. I know they don't produce avocados when they are houseplants, but I'm seeing if it will make a new houseplant!
I like random things. When I went to London with my friends, we had a bite to eat at this cafe. Not the greatest, but it has good food and will change your order (brioche instead of bun, etc).
Love, Love the name! and also the phrase on the menu!
I like seeing patterns when I am out and about. I took this photo because I saw a face in the knot in the tree.
But when I looked at the photo, I also saw a doggie waiting to go walkies!
I like WhatsApp. Now my sisters and I can send random messages and photos and it doesn't cost.
This from one sister
and even a photo of a squirrel's hoard in the outhouse at their camp!
Right, now I need to get on with that Ramshackle project. I have been posting process photos during the week.
Go have a look at LeeAnna's blog where she has links to 'likes' others have posted.
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Thursday, 4 October 2018
I like Thankful Thursday
I like measurable achievements...
all the mountain houses, plus a few extra that it needed, are cut out. Now they also have been fused. (not shown) I am working on the next section.
I like chickadees. So this was a wonderful gift my Mom sent recently.
According to my bird book, they are quite like coal tits over here, but I have not seen one. I think they are my favourite bird...but, then there are robins and blackbirds and ...
I like trees!
These trees were in the car park of the community centre. On Saturday we had our sewing group. I had to stop to take a photo!
And I like walking in the woods.
We went to a nearby park with the friends from church, including a few of our dogs. Lily Hill Park. The park used to be part of the grounds for a mansion which is now offices.
They do a lot with the fallen trees including the longest picnic table in England.
picnic photos from a few years ago.
So we had our picnic. and then went on the walk.
I love the patterns you can see on trees.
twisted
the little bit of limb left looks like a water tap you can turn on!
The bark is amazing.
This clearing was a fun place.
a portal
in the distance - steps cut into a tree stump.
So a lovely weekend! Holly, is usually a grump with other dogs. Our friends have a puppy, Charlie, who is about 8 mo. old. We didn't know if she would snarl at him or what, but she decided he was a good friend! phew! It was so fun to see her playing with him. It would have been good to let them both off the lead to play, but he hasn't learned not to run off yet. (Sorry, I didn't get a photo.) The other dog, Lily, is quite old. Holly only grouched her when she though Lily was going to come get our sausages. Sausages is her Favourite! After the picnic, she had no problem with her.
all the mountain houses, plus a few extra that it needed, are cut out. Now they also have been fused. (not shown) I am working on the next section.
I like chickadees. So this was a wonderful gift my Mom sent recently.
According to my bird book, they are quite like coal tits over here, but I have not seen one. I think they are my favourite bird...but, then there are robins and blackbirds and ...
I like trees!
These trees were in the car park of the community centre. On Saturday we had our sewing group. I had to stop to take a photo!
And I like walking in the woods.
We went to a nearby park with the friends from church, including a few of our dogs. Lily Hill Park. The park used to be part of the grounds for a mansion which is now offices.
They do a lot with the fallen trees including the longest picnic table in England.
picnic photos from a few years ago.
So we had our picnic. and then went on the walk.
I love the patterns you can see on trees.
twisted
the little bit of limb left looks like a water tap you can turn on!
The bark is amazing.
This clearing was a fun place.
a portal
in the distance - steps cut into a tree stump.
So a lovely weekend! Holly, is usually a grump with other dogs. Our friends have a puppy, Charlie, who is about 8 mo. old. We didn't know if she would snarl at him or what, but she decided he was a good friend! phew! It was so fun to see her playing with him. It would have been good to let them both off the lead to play, but he hasn't learned not to run off yet. (Sorry, I didn't get a photo.) The other dog, Lily, is quite old. Holly only grouched her when she though Lily was going to come get our sausages. Sausages is her Favourite! After the picnic, she had no problem with her.
Thursday, 20 September 2018
I like Thankful Thursday
I have been making progress on the prep for my next Ramshackle piece. I like this very much. Why does it take so much effort to get started - destroying the words in my head like; this is not going to work, you will end up doing it wrong, and such.
So, I told myself, no one else is doing this, so when I am doing it, it is right. I need to write that on the wall or something!
I like this for when my body thinks it doesn't want to do the above work.
I like the unusual colours of this acer by the back fence. It is usually more of an over all colour, but the summer was so hot, it has come out a bit more variegated.
Design inspiration!
Holly likes safe places! It has been so windy just lately (you don't really have to send the left over winds here from America!). Holly gets afraid of the sounds of the wind inside. This is because doors bang shut. (sometimes the people can't live with all the doors having a doorstop!) The doors banging was her original fear, but now she has realised the wind causes it. So, she dashes outside if she can. Or follows me around like a lost sheep. Outside is Safe. She loves the smells the wind brings!
But sometimes you need a bunker, so this one has developed over the past couple of years. Originally the plants to the left were growing all the way to the plants on the right. But now it is Safe.
Since yesterday, there is a new one under the elderberry bush...quite deep.
I like finding shapes that look like other things.
I think this puddle on the table in the back garden looks a bit like a poppy head.
And so back to work.
If you want to see some of the other likes, go to LeeAnna's blog and check out the links.
So, I told myself, no one else is doing this, so when I am doing it, it is right. I need to write that on the wall or something!
I like this for when my body thinks it doesn't want to do the above work.
I like the unusual colours of this acer by the back fence. It is usually more of an over all colour, but the summer was so hot, it has come out a bit more variegated.
Design inspiration!
Holly likes safe places! It has been so windy just lately (you don't really have to send the left over winds here from America!). Holly gets afraid of the sounds of the wind inside. This is because doors bang shut. (sometimes the people can't live with all the doors having a doorstop!) The doors banging was her original fear, but now she has realised the wind causes it. So, she dashes outside if she can. Or follows me around like a lost sheep. Outside is Safe. She loves the smells the wind brings!
But sometimes you need a bunker, so this one has developed over the past couple of years. Originally the plants to the left were growing all the way to the plants on the right. But now it is Safe.
Since yesterday, there is a new one under the elderberry bush...quite deep.
I like finding shapes that look like other things.
I think this puddle on the table in the back garden looks a bit like a poppy head.
And so back to work.
If you want to see some of the other likes, go to LeeAnna's blog and check out the links.
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Apologies for the silence!
Lots of things going on around here. But I also developed a very bad throat and now real silence because I no voice!
Not that it should hinder me from posting, but by the time I have slogged my way through the rest of the day I am very weary and don't seem to be able to rub 2 thoughts together!
Anyway, delayed bead project coming up. All the photos were taken, but that is where it stopped!
I am making a chocolate cake for A Certain Young Man's birthday. So, back to work.
Besides the money we gave him, I gave him a lemon tree and his dad a carving knife and a book about whittling. My dad taught him a little when he lived over there, but now he wants to do more.
Not that it should hinder me from posting, but by the time I have slogged my way through the rest of the day I am very weary and don't seem to be able to rub 2 thoughts together!
Anyway, delayed bead project coming up. All the photos were taken, but that is where it stopped!
I am making a chocolate cake for A Certain Young Man's birthday. So, back to work.
Besides the money we gave him, I gave him a lemon tree and his dad a carving knife and a book about whittling. My dad taught him a little when he lived over there, but now he wants to do more.
Monday, 4 May 2015
Juniper Tree - 3
Here is the Juniper Tree with the stitching finished and the water soluble washed out.
I decided to let it dry with lumps and bumps...and wow! I am quite impressed with the way that makes it realistic!
After a bit of using the photo for reference, I went with making the colours work. There is A LOT of thread in this!
I decided to let it dry with lumps and bumps...and wow! I am quite impressed with the way that makes it realistic!
After a bit of using the photo for reference, I went with making the colours work. There is A LOT of thread in this!
Saturday, 2 May 2015
Tree of Life - 4
And here is the Tree of Life after it is dry.
This looks rather blurry, but it is the line shadow!
The tree came out slightly wider than the background. But as most of the others will reach over the top or bottom, I will allow this to reach over the sides.
And now that I am not 'officially' doing the journal quilts, I don't have to worry about suiting rules. Hey, that's a positive!
This looks rather blurry, but it is the line shadow!
The tree came out slightly wider than the background. But as most of the others will reach over the top or bottom, I will allow this to reach over the sides.
And now that I am not 'officially' doing the journal quilts, I don't have to worry about suiting rules. Hey, that's a positive!
Friday, 1 May 2015
Juniper Tree - 2
Working the darker areas first.
The little clump shapes really didn't happen in practice.
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In order to give my self a break or in pain management speak, pace things...
I have opted out of the Journal Quilt project with CQ. I just couldn't get all this done, take the gown to Henley, and so on. So, I will carry on with the trees without the pressure side of it. Journal Quilts as I usually use them; a theme and something to learn over the year.
This will be a big help when things like my dad's 80th birthday and Festival of Quilts and all the new big and wonderful possibilities that are opening up seem to come one right after the other.
And just so you and I know that I really do hope to begin the pacing things bit...I have taken 2 possible deadline things off of the 'This is what I would like to aim for' wardrobe door. I feel positively giddy!
Ha. Till I did all the washing today and washed the sheets and re-made the bed and actually finished the Juniper and so on. Still, lets not knock this. I am pacing the photos! Then I won't feel pressured to sew longer than I can cope with just in order to do blog posts.
So, bear with me on the one bit at a time thing while I finish catching up on myself somewhat.
Or go to Henley over the Bank Holiday and see the Heat and the Flame in person during Henley Art Trail. It is at Lady Sew and Sew.
The little clump shapes really didn't happen in practice.
********
In order to give my self a break or in pain management speak, pace things...
I have opted out of the Journal Quilt project with CQ. I just couldn't get all this done, take the gown to Henley, and so on. So, I will carry on with the trees without the pressure side of it. Journal Quilts as I usually use them; a theme and something to learn over the year.
This will be a big help when things like my dad's 80th birthday and Festival of Quilts and all the new big and wonderful possibilities that are opening up seem to come one right after the other.
And just so you and I know that I really do hope to begin the pacing things bit...I have taken 2 possible deadline things off of the 'This is what I would like to aim for' wardrobe door. I feel positively giddy!
Ha. Till I did all the washing today and washed the sheets and re-made the bed and actually finished the Juniper and so on. Still, lets not knock this. I am pacing the photos! Then I won't feel pressured to sew longer than I can cope with just in order to do blog posts.
So, bear with me on the one bit at a time thing while I finish catching up on myself somewhat.
Or go to Henley over the Bank Holiday and see the Heat and the Flame in person during Henley Art Trail. It is at Lady Sew and Sew.
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Tree of Life - 3
Here is the Tree of Life fresh from washing out the soluble fabric. It worked!
A bit of fiddling with some of the flower ends, but the structure has held together. Since there is still some of the solution (from the soluble fabric getting wet) left in the threads with this method, it will help it to retain enough stiffness to work with it when it is dry.
There are a few places where threads need trimming, but I am pretty happy with this.
A bit of fiddling with some of the flower ends, but the structure has held together. Since there is still some of the solution (from the soluble fabric getting wet) left in the threads with this method, it will help it to retain enough stiffness to work with it when it is dry.
There are a few places where threads need trimming, but I am pretty happy with this.
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Juniper Tree - 1
While delaying the washing out part of the Tree of Life. I started on a Juniper Tree.
There are Biblical references in the book by the Prophet Isaiah about how Sennacherib, King of Assyria, boasted of cutting the great forests down... the tallest cedars and the choicest junipers. But also that he would have his downfall and the forests would gloat (over him) now that no one came to cut them down. The distant forests would be quiet, birdsong and not battle cry heard, safe for a time from the axes.
These were also grown in the Lebanon.
There are Biblical references in the book by the Prophet Isaiah about how Sennacherib, King of Assyria, boasted of cutting the great forests down... the tallest cedars and the choicest junipers. But also that he would have his downfall and the forests would gloat (over him) now that no one came to cut them down. The distant forests would be quiet, birdsong and not battle cry heard, safe for a time from the axes.
Trying several threads to get the silvery bark effect.
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Tree of life - 2
More work on the stylised Tree of Life.
This type of work is more concentrated on one line of stitch gone over in different ways, so I think if this one does turn out okay, I might use 2 layers for any future open thread tracing. There is a tendency for the fabric to pull away or the stitching to get pulled or pushed into the bobbin area.
Now finished, I have pinned it to the foam core board.
Usually I wash out the water soluble first and then block. But I am concerned this will just go all floppy and get tangled. I will trim the excess away (should have thought of that earlier!) and then will run water over the board in the sink.
Then it will be a tense moment while I wait to see if the tree can be used in one piece. I tried to attach branches a bit at the ends to keep it from all turning to a dried up Daucus carota or Wild Carrot/Queen Anne's Lace at the end. Well, that could be an option if it does!
This type of work is more concentrated on one line of stitch gone over in different ways, so I think if this one does turn out okay, I might use 2 layers for any future open thread tracing. There is a tendency for the fabric to pull away or the stitching to get pulled or pushed into the bobbin area.
Now finished, I have pinned it to the foam core board.
Usually I wash out the water soluble first and then block. But I am concerned this will just go all floppy and get tangled. I will trim the excess away (should have thought of that earlier!) and then will run water over the board in the sink.
Then it will be a tense moment while I wait to see if the tree can be used in one piece. I tried to attach branches a bit at the ends to keep it from all turning to a dried up Daucus carota or Wild Carrot/Queen Anne's Lace at the end. Well, that could be an option if it does!
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Tree of Life - 1
Today was the Offcuts sewing group meeting for April. Being a bear of very little brain today, I thought it would be easier to work on a tree. (for my journal quilt tree series. The fact that I need to have 4 posted by the end of April if I am to 'officially' continue, may or may not have had something to do with it!) But so I didn't stress about making a tree to look like a tree and so on, I decided to do a stylised one.
Inspired by various Tree of Life depictions over the centuries...millenniums even... Actually, I think these depictions are stylised depictions of something like an Espaliered tree. A wood craft where trees are trained against garden walls.
So, I sketched a simple one. Straight up with cross pieces and then a bit sticking up at the end of each cross piece. But then I wasn't sure about how to do the top, and looked in my book which I have mentioned before. (written by a forester about trees mentioned in the Bible, ancient historical lands and/or which grow in the Middle East now.)
Ah, a bit more style needed. So, simple became more complex. But still it was a break for my brain from pattern drafting, which I find I am unable to do when I am chatting to friends about sewing!
And with a few stops and starts about things, this is how far I have got.
As you can see, I abandoned the overly complicated bit at the top!
I chose a variegated thread someone recently was getting rid of. I figured if I am going stylised, I may as well play with colour, too. At first I was worried the thread was too strange...it has pinks and blues in it. But when you look from a distance it works. I also have a green thread in the bobbin, so when I wash out the water soluble, that will add to the colour.
Inspired by various Tree of Life depictions over the centuries...millenniums even... Actually, I think these depictions are stylised depictions of something like an Espaliered tree. A wood craft where trees are trained against garden walls.
So, I sketched a simple one. Straight up with cross pieces and then a bit sticking up at the end of each cross piece. But then I wasn't sure about how to do the top, and looked in my book which I have mentioned before. (written by a forester about trees mentioned in the Bible, ancient historical lands and/or which grow in the Middle East now.)
A tree in the palace of King Ashernasirpal
Ah, a bit more style needed. So, simple became more complex. But still it was a break for my brain from pattern drafting, which I find I am unable to do when I am chatting to friends about sewing!
And with a few stops and starts about things, this is how far I have got.
As you can see, I abandoned the overly complicated bit at the top!
I chose a variegated thread someone recently was getting rid of. I figured if I am going stylised, I may as well play with colour, too. At first I was worried the thread was too strange...it has pinks and blues in it. But when you look from a distance it works. I also have a green thread in the bobbin, so when I wash out the water soluble, that will add to the colour.
Friday, 3 April 2015
Cedar of Lebanon - 4
The water soluble fabric is washed out.
and now I am blocking it. This has more areas where things weren't joined so well or extra threads on edges. But I expected it because of the way the trunk and boughs were sewn. I will join things together when I stitch them to a backing after I have trimmed random threads.
and now I am blocking it. This has more areas where things weren't joined so well or extra threads on edges. But I expected it because of the way the trunk and boughs were sewn. I will join things together when I stitch them to a backing after I have trimmed random threads.
Monday, 30 March 2015
Cedar of Lebanon - 3
On Saturday at the Offcuts meeting I finished the stitching on the Cedar of Lebanon. Now it needs to have the soluble stabiliser washed out.
I am pretty happy with this!
I am pretty happy with this!
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