small bits and pieces…

I have spent a great deal of my time carving stamps this past week.  I have a large piece of  “the pink stuff” that I mentioned in the post below…but I’m saving it for when my carving improves.  I carved more stamps yesterday but haven’t taken photos of those yet.  I’m showing the first ones I carved.  I couldn’t believe it, our local Wal Mart ran out of the white erasers. Friday, I made a trip to our Staples (an hour away) and they had white erasers in a pack of four but I thought they were way expensive.  I did purchase  two packs and hope that WM will get some again soon…I mean….why pay over 8o cents per eraser when I can buy one  for sixty-one cents? 

I added more to the background that is in the post below.  Only one journal page in a week?  That’s all I could squeeze in this week.  I used lots of regular colored pencils, acrylic paints,   some spray paint, and some poster pens….yep, I threw everything but the kitchen sink at it   And after all that, I liked the  background best! 

I also finished another quilt block.  When I finish the quilt block I’m working on…I will have sixteen completed blocks.  I’m getting close to having enough blocks to put them together.

 

Military Style Hat & Quilt Blocks

I have had a case of the blahs the past few days…no art.  I did work on my quilt blocks last night.  I have twelve of them semi-completed…I may do further embellishments on some of them.  Here are two more blocks that I haven’t posted:  (clicking on photo will enlarge it):

 

Yesterday I found the coolest hat tutorial on a newly discovered blog.  It’s called Crafterhours – sleeping babes, crafting moms.  Two moms do this blog and all their children are four or under…I think I read that they each have two children.  I understood the name of their blog after reading that    Anyway, the hat is super cute.  The tutorial is in three parts and is for a child but it could easily be adapted for an adult.   Check out their blog, they have other great patterns and tutorials for making all kinds of things.  I got permission to post the photo of the hat:

More Stitching – Quilt Project

This will be my last post until after Christmas.  I plan to be more faithful to post new art and my other new passion…working on my quilt.  I have almost finished six more blocks….that makes a total of nine completed blocks.  I’m not sure how many total blocks I will need…I want it to fit a queen size bed. I’ll have to figure that out. 

Have a blessed Christmas!!!

Art Stitchery Quilt Blocks

I have three quilt blocks completed and two more put together but I have some hand stitching to do on those.   I’m mixing new embroidery pieces that I have done, old linen embroidery pieces, vintage handkerchiefs, and  fabric scraps that I’ve probably had long enough to be vintage.   I have several handkerchiefs that I have collected over the years.  I don’t feel badly about cutting those up because most of them are fairly fragile.  I’m putting these together crazy quilt style so I have another layer under each pieced block.   I have never done anything like this before so I’m making it up as I go along.  A lot of the hand work is done at night while I’m watching TV.  I need better lighting because I used dark purple on something thinking it was black.  I haven’t done embroidery work for many years…I went through a counted cross stitch faze in the 80′s…I had to find out how to do a French knot because I’d forgotten how to do it.   I found a great website that has little short videos showing how to do almost any stitch you would want to do:  http://www.needlenthread.com/videos

Quilt Giveaway

The Old Red Barn Co. is giving away a free quilt. The quilt is backed with a vintage sheet. The colors in the quilt are just lovely! People are even making videos to increase their chances of winning the quilt. Go to the link below to read more about the giveaway:

http://www.oldredbarnco.blogspot.com/