Valerean

Here's one of my homemade idea books. I put these together from thin scrap cardbaord, clothing or calendar inserts for the covers, and newsprint used as wrapping for the pages so I can recycle the paper. Here's an old pencil sketch of mine for a patchwork tote. I also write in them, as I did here while composing the poem for my pink-only quilt. It needs a little more polishing before I get it stamped on fabric. So I can stop pre-publishing months in advance, from this point on there will be two posts publishing per day on the blog until I catch up with myself in September. You don't mind, do you? Ha.

A lot of four unfinished patchwork panels caught my eye at the thrift auction. Each one has primitive angel embroidery like this one, and features the same antique fabric patchwork. It broke my heart to see that no one was interested them, so I put in a bid and won the lot. Stay tuned to the blog to see what I get when they arrive. Image Credit: the first pic in this post came from the original auction listing at ShopGoodwill.com.

June was a super productive month for me. I started off with altering a thrifted pair of Michael Kors leggings to fit me better, and turned a thrifted pair of British jeans into shorts for the summer. I crocheted a bucket hat for fall out of thrifted yarn by following Secret Yarnery's video tutorial here . My first mini quilt of June was made with crochet yarn and embroidery thread that I made myself out of twelve strand of sewing thread. I repaired an old quilt that the dogs like so they can go on using it. My second mini-quilt for June was a stitch practice piece, and also an attempt to save a bit of beautiful vintage tea towel embroidery. I made a wall hanging quilt out of a vintage cross-stitched napkin and a $1.50 bag of fabric scraps I thrifted. I cleaned and repaired two thrifted Vera Bradley bags. For my third mini-quilt of June I used a fish I found attached to one of the thrifted Vera Bradley bags to create a little underwater scene. ...