Peppers and Quilting

Tomorrow I start the fourth novel of the year for my day job, but I've had a lovely mini-vacation and got all my research done, so I'm ready to work now. I went out yesterday to harvest the last of the peppers and tomatoes from the garden before the bugs and heat ruined them. I love peppers, even if they don't love me. :)

I'm nearly finished sewing the fabric elements to my summer art quilt top, too. Once the last strip is complete I'll bat and back it, and get started on the embroidery and embellishment.

Right now the quilt is in an ugly duckling phase, as most of the surface design will be in thread. These patches, circles and strips don't make much sense right now to anyone but me, but they will. Also, this is the correct orientation of the quilt -- I've been photographing it upside down. :)

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Old Loves & Such

My guy kindly bought me my favorite Chinese take out the other night, and my fortune cookie offered up an interesting story starter: This sounds sweet, right? Only the first thing I thought of was an old love coming back from the dead . . . . must be October. In other lovely news, my favorite hand-dyed thread artist, Lorraine from Colour Complements , is moving her business from Etsy to her own web site. Many of my favorite sellers on Etsy are leaving due to the whole "free shipping" coercion debacle, which has also soured me on the site. To show support I did a little shopping at Lorraine's web site and got in these: I love her threads and trims; you simply can't buy anything like them anywhere. Her work makes my specialty thread box look like a treasure chest: At night I'm spending just as hour working on quilting the scrap project runner, and I'm making slow progress: I'll keep quilting the runner while I try to decide on a design for t...

Progress

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Love Means This

Invested in a couple of hand-dyed bundles from one of my favorite fabric artists. This one said "Make me into something for Valentine's Day." So I went for a quilted and embellished tote. I kept thinking about what love means to me as I worked on it. Here's the finished tote. Although I was tempted to embellish with beads and pins, I got sick and only felt well enough to do a little stitching every night. As I worked I thought about how often love seems disappointing to us, especially when it fails to live up to our expectations. But now that I've experienced love in many forms, I can say that it's made me a better person than I might have been without it. Love is a precious thing, and should be appreciated in all its forms. I am very grateful for the love of my guy, my child and my friends who have stuck with me all these years. That's you two, in case you're wondering. :) Also finally found something to do with a ve...

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