It’s been far too long since starting this, a little while back a good friend and I began dreaming again of our beekeepers quilts and how much we loved our projects, but had let the blurgs & blahs keep us from them. Now I am finding a revived love for working the small peaceful puffs (slow and steady)
..and so it all begins ..again :)
I’ve designed this little Wild Clover Chart for all of us puff makers ..or really for anybody who wants something completely pretty to stitch on my Merit Badge pattern ..or anything else that needs some instant vintage sweetness.
My mom (Bonnie) and me (little girl chalklegs) circa 1975. That weird cookie jar on the counter next to the even weirder coffeemaker was her mom’s and when I moved out she gave it to me, it looks like an old timey radio and on the top handle it says “tune in a cookie”. I love it.
That’s little girl chalklegs up in the right corner (I’m a girl version of my dad) ..nothing good ever comes from putting a tomboy in a velvet lederhosen style dress for school pictures ..sweetly disheveled.
It has been months in the making, there was blood ..f’ing treadle sewing machine ..note to self: if the treadle doesn’t budge with a few good tries, don’t go at it like a barefoot Mac truck and snap it in half. Scattered days of doing absolutely nothing, I guess being moody and intently lazy never helps! But my workspace/art room/chalklegs studio is sorted and the no longer dusty gears are livening up, I‘ve done a little sewing, with lots of daydreaming in here :)
It just feel so nice to walk in and see tidy organization (this consisted of pairing like things together .. haha!) not an easy task in a room that is one big collection of random weird things. We have mayonnaise jars (oh yes they are vintage tin top miracle whips!) of unused men’s dress shoelaces from the 40/50s, an out of control grouping of glues and glue like products (come on adhesive engineers, make something that is out of this world amazing, that doesn’t stink, works on everything, holds like steel and won’t melt away my brain ..ONE GLUE TO RULE THEM ALL!) there are bins of doll parts, cheesy things from my youth (the 80s fricken totally ROCKED!), stacks of old keys, baby teeth, all cohesively (at least in my minds kooky aesthetic) mixed in, next to spools of vintage lace, antique victorian photos, beautiful cotton fabrics, and mason jars filled with grandmas buttons (not my grannys, but someones!)
I got rid of a lot, but there is still a lot tucked in here ..I love being swallowed wholly in this space ..turn up the music and make something!
..enter potholder, yes It’s that time again, you can find all the 2014 potholder swap details here! This year (well..I guess like always) I’m using cotton thread and I’m going with a pattern that is so beautifully understated and peaceful to work, I cannot get enough of its swirling layer cake texture ..very tarte tatin ala pineapple upside down cake YUMMY! I’m sure you remember the Tunisian Shell blanket, yes that one, just a tiny-ed up potholder version!
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