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April Art & Quilting

Despite taxes and lots of work for the day job I was fairly productive with my sewing and quilting in April. At the beginning of the month Blogger locked down all my blogs because of the spool art embroidery project I finished at the end of March. I got them back, but I still have no explanation why they would object to my stitching.

Kat came home unexpectedly for a friend's funeral, during which time I made and embroidered two practice pieces with scraps leftover from piecing the linen quilt.

This is the one I worked on while waiting to find out if her flight home landed safely. You can almost feel the worry coming off the stitches.

On Easter Sunday I put together this little silk piece. Okay, I admit it does look a bit like an alien one-eyed spider creature that wants to eat your face. But I'm (slowly) getting over my aversion to pink.

I also batted, backed and pinned the linen quilt, which took six hours. I am not getting any faster at this in my old age.

Starting to embroider this quilt was a joy, too.

This time around I am going to take weekly breaks from the linen quilt and do small one or two day projects so I don't get burned out on it, and my first break project was hand stitching and quilting a new mug rug for my desk.

I also made a little art quilt out of silks and taffetas for my embroidery inspiration board.

Happy May Day. :)

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nightsmusic said…
Happy belated May Day! I should be so productive. Jimmy went back to work today and I have my house back so hopefully, I can get back into my routine and get something accomplished. I've felt like such a slug while he's been home. I don't know why I can't seem to get myself motivated when he's in the house all the time. Retirement is going to be a difficult thing if he decides not to work in his barn every day.

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