Thank you
everyone for your prayers and thoughts! My surgery went well. The tumor was a
very small one and only Stage 1A cancer so no more treatment is needed, just
watching me closely for a while. I’m feeling great just have to be sure I don’t
overdo it with lifting etc.
I have been
slowly getting back into stitching so this is what I have in progress this
Wednesday.
I finished
a block for my quilt guild’s monthly block exchange, I’m only two blocks behind
now!
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| Scrappy Blues Block |
My first
fifteen minute project is now complete. It was surprisingly easy to keep it
going. The day of surgery and two days of recovery did not see any stitching
but I made it up later in the week by stitching extra fifteen minute periods. Thirty
eight days later the monkey is now done but I think he will just go in the box
with all the rest of my TAST2012 pieces. I haven’t decided what to do with them
yet. (Please don’t ask how many French Knots are in that piece!) I did add ears
which were not in the original scribble. Generally I do not add any lines or scribbles
to one once the pencil leaves the paper or fabric but he just needed some ears
so they were scribbled in.
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| French knot monkey 15 minutes a day priject |
I’ve gotten
back to working on my summer hexagon project that I started last year using
embroidery designs from Wild Olive. I modified a few of them. This is my first
time making hexagons and I struggled with sewing them together. I worked at it
during a few of the Friendship Stitchers group I belong to. Then I decided I
really want to get it finished (I have the designs for Fall, Winter, and now
Spring waiting in the sidelines). So I started doing it as one of my just
fifteen minutes a day projects but I got carried away with it and worked more
than fifteen minutes. So it is getting done a little faster than expected.
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| Summer Hexagon Embroidery Pioject |
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| Painted hoops |
Next I
painted some outer embroidery hoop frames in anticipation of another Finish It
Friday project. I’m hoping this Friday to have some results to show.
Happy
Stitching!
Rose
3 comments:
such good news re the op and results, thank the Lord. Now enjoy your recovery and all the best for the next 20+ years. Love all you have done, the monkey looks so good and I am sure the added ears add to his expression. Hot sure why you are struggling with joining the hexies, I lie mine flat side by side and this way can use any colour of cotton as no stitches show, when I backed them up it did not work so well, hope this helps,
Thank you Margaret! About the hexies I think you need to give us a tutorial on how to lay then flat side by side and stitch them together. I hold mine in my hand when stitching them together, do you have them laying on a table?
it's wonderful to have you back Rose!!
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