Hemming hexies
The election has shaken me up quite a lot, more than I expected. After nervously stitching for hours to attach my butterfly to her border, I wasn’t motivated to stitch at all. I was...
Category: Making
Snow view
I am having a good time stitching my dark butterfly down on the finished background. I love sitting at this desk and looking out at the snowy forest. And the window sill is so...
Centerpiece
I find sanity and stability where I can and today it was here, at the table (small desk really) upstairs. I’ve been having trouble with the center area of the butterfly background. Giving it...
Evolution
This cloth has changed a lot since my original conception. Now it has a dark butterfly and a pale pieced background, with nothing else to distract. I cut up the larger rectangles of purple...
Golden village
I’ve had a great time stitching together this collection of wonky golden houses. I might embellish them with more stitch and patches (door and windows), but they are mostly done. Time to look for...
Haunted by hexies
English paper piecing. Finally. Sort of inevitable in that I’m English and I have a lot of paper lying around. And I like to piece fabrics together. This project is inspired by a piece...
Blue basket
I’ve been wanting to start another fabric coiled basket for awhile and finally got it going. At this stage I just have to keep coiling and stitching. I want to use up the blue...