Birthday Girl

Faith will be two years old tomorrow (the 13th) and she is such a delight!

I went to a local Christmas Show and saw a very cute shirt. I wrote down the saying and came home and stitched it out with my domestic embroidery machine. I tried to get Faith to pose with her shirt.

Here she is after I asked her to smile. Great expression, but you can't see what the shirt says.

So after many attempts, I finally got her to stand still to get the front of the shirt.

She was a little less than excited about standing still and straight.

"Who needs Santa I've got Grandma!" Feel free to steal the idea and stitch it out (or paint it on)for yourselves, I did.

And after all that hard work of modeling, it's a great reward to play with Pop Pop's pink pigs! Especially the one that oinks out "We wish you a Merry Christmas" and then squeals at the end. Any respectable BBQ household wouldn't be without one.

New Fabric

Yes, I'm still kicking around. We've had several life events in our family and it's kept me busy for sure! I have finally been able to squeeze in a little dyeing. I was trying to get some pieces of sort of solid fabric to go with a piece that I'm going to cut and actually make into an art piece. With the leftover dye I made these. (Note some are dark in real life and if they end up being difficult to see, that's probably correct.)

This one I did a couple of weeks ago. It's made from a mixture of the Earth and Basic Family (for Carol Soderlund students). It was wrapped around a pole, scrunched down and secured by rubberbands and the dyes poured on. Then the soda ash was added afterwards by pouring it over as the pole lay in a wallpaper tray. The fabric batched for a couple of weeks just because I had so many interruptions. It's quite bright, but very nice though. 1 yard.

This one I did last week, it only batched about one week, which means I didn't have as much interruptions, just Thanksgiving festivies. It was also wrapped around a pole, scrunched down and the dyes poured on. It was done with just the Basic dye family. I'm not sure how the stripes turned out so pronounced. I again laid it in a wallpaper tray and poured on the dye, then the soda ash was poured on after that. I really don't love the stripes, but I like the fabric and think it will be improved with cutting it up.

Actually the previous piece and the following piece are much darker in person, so the stripes aren't quite as strong. The next piece was done with the Earth family of dyes. Made as the previous two. It's very nice, with very rich colors.



This was done with the very last bits of the Earth and Basic family. It was just scrunched and put in an 9 X 11 rubbermaid contiainer and the dyes poured over and then soda ash added after that.

So I'll keep working and see if I can get something finished before the local quilt show deadline.