Our kitchen has come along quite a ways! We made the final decisions and ordered the cabinets. They are due the first week of March. Here is the progress in photos:
Old linen closet, that wasn’t deep enough for a folded towel and only irked me day after day:
Newly drywalled built in book case instead:
Newly routed electrical work and insulation (to deaden the sounds between the kitchen and bedrooms):
Drywall patched and mudded:
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I was inspired by Mandy Pattullo to make a chickadee wall hanging mixed media piece.
As part of TextileArtist.org’s Stitch Club, Ruth Norbury tasked us with making a textural mixed media peice and I chose Hubert Robert’s La Fontaine painting as my subject.
As part of TextileArtist.org’s Stitch Club, I made a map of Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantium (by Martin Springett) following Bridget Steel-Jessop’s workshop.
I used a kintsugi kit by Jack Richardson to meld two broken stones back together.
I tested my painting skills in a challenge with Boy: who could paint the best D&D miniature?
I made a small mixed-media piece using an Eliza McClelland beadwork kit and some other art supplies.
I have a total of 107 flowers ready for my fussy-cut EPP Hexie Dreams quilt and am moving on to planning how to arrange them.
You can stop here if you don’t wish to read anything sad today. It’s already bad enough with Roe v. Wade, war, and such, I know.
As part of TextileArtist.org’s Stitch Club, I followed Valerie S. Goodwin’s workshop to create a map of one of my favorite places.
For my fussy-cut EPP Hexie Dreams quilt, I’ve so far stitched together fifty seven flowers.
In 2020, my embroidery guild offered a class on Ukrainian whitework: the Summer Lace pattern in all white by Terri Bay. Of course, this was well before the war occurring now. My friend, then, had recently gone to Ukraine to meet her father's side of the family for the...
I’ve begun sewing the hexies together for my fussy-cut EPP Hexie Dreams quilt.
All the hexies are prepped now for my Hexie Dreams fussy-cut English Paper Piecing quilt.
I used an acrylic template to make some soup bowl cozies.
Thirty more hexies have been prepped for my Hexie Dreams fussy-cut English paper piecing quilt. I’m either ready to start piecing them together, or just a few more to go – time will tell what I decide!
As part of TextileArtist.org’s Stitch Club, I followed Mandy Pattullo’s workshop to create a textile collage bird.
I’ve added 141 more hexies to my Hexie Dreams fussy-cut English paper piecing quilt, putting me well over the original goal.
As part of TextileArtist.org’s Stitch Club, I created an abstract motherboard using techniques from Richard McVetis.
I am participating in Anne Brooke’s #52tagshannemade #sew4thesoul slow stitch challenge for 2021. Week 52’s theme is making a little tree.
I am participating in Anne Brooke’s #52tagshannemade #sew4thesoul slow stitch challenge for 2021. Week 51-s theme was to create a wreath.
I am participating in Anne Brooke’s #52tagshannemade #sew4thesoul slow stitch challenge for 2021. Week 50’s theme was to add some circles.
Hmmm… You guys could have used this money to goto Hong Kong with me. I mean who cares about things like ‘property values’ , ‘long term investments’ , and ‘living in nice places’ …. I saw Monkeys!
Aye, it might have been worth it but we are getting really tired of not having real food around!
AWESOME!!!! I can’t wait to see it when it’s done!
Me neither! 😀 😀