Button...Button

I got busy and listed lots of my hand-painted buttons. All are about 1".  If you have a favorite bird, it is probably on my Etsy site.

A very Seamy Day

Spent the weekend doing unpleasant chores but today I spent at the table with my revolving thread stand....just doing seams... Birds just tacked down.

Could I be more "hoop happy?"

 

Well maybe a little.  I have raved on and on how happy I am with my threads on hoops hanging on the door... But as I was stitching the other day I was thinking it would be even more perfect if they were all on a revolving rack at my side...  My first thought was a revolving tie rack I could mount on a stand but they were not large enough around to hold many rings. 

Since we worked booths at flower shows for years and years I have a small room in the barn filled with a variety of display fixtures and this is what I ended up with. 

I would like it a bit taller and the basket to have a bottom but it is workable.  I will see what I can do to tweet it to my needs.

Originally it was a shoe display rack and looked something like this, but only three baskets.  I had put bottoms in the baskets and used it to display small items.   I took off all the baskets except a large one. 

This is what would be absolutely perfect. It is a hankerchief or scarf rack.  The diameter is large and the height is adjustable...  But it is $60 plus $20 for shipping so I will (as usual) work with what I find in the barn for free and recycle and upcycle.  Plus I will keep an eye out when I am thrifting!

I'll be thinking on it while I'm winding down the garden and overseeing the "limbing up" of my forest to reduce fire danger.

Fans finish and full steam ahead on jacket...

The fan blocks for Lisa are finished and ready to mail   It will be a while before I get the next one and the wool block RR is  "whatever" so I am working on seams for jacket and getting all the motifs appliqued...

Tomorrow is back to the eye doctor... Sight in right eye has deteriorated to blurry  blobs and very dim... Left eye not so blurry I can't still stitch but very dim also//.. Working with multiple lamps at a time (3 ott lights) and upgrading my magnifier.. looking for one the strength jewelers or lab workers use.

Secret work on August unveiled!

 

I did the August page in Pam Kellogg's calendar which has just been released.  It had to be done in secret months ago.  It was hard for me to work on something and not share it on the blog.  I wanted intense color for the heat of summer.  Since it will hopefully be seen from a distance I also want something bold and visible.  But now it can be shared with everyone.  Bold enough????

The flowers were large silk white daisies which I disassembled, dyed with alcohol inks, rough cut the petals, stacked and beaded.  But what I was really happy with were the seams on it... Every one of them went into my seam book and will be used again on the jacket.