Slow Stitching - visible mending

DH is working on a landscape project in the back yard and in the process we had to use these forearm forklifts to move the blocks which form the two steps of the project.  The block edges were quite sharp in some places and so they made several cuts in the fabric of the forklifts.  I did visible mending to get them back to rights for the next time these come in handy.  Several hours of slow stitching!!!  

I am joining Kathy at Kathy Quilts for her Sunday Slow Stitching.  Always lots of fun projects to check out on Sunday on her site. 

 Therese

 

Slow Stitching - red apples

I have been working on these for the last two months off and on and managed to finish off the fourth one today!!  I really like how they look!!!  I have two more to finish and then they will be ready to be added to a project - bags or a quilt!!

I am joining Kathy at Kathy Quilts for her Sunday Slow Stitching.  Always lots of fun projects to check out on Sunday on her site. 

I stitched a gray strip of cotton to a piece printed white for each of these.  I drew a pattern by hand and cut it out.  I cut six of them from different red fabrics from my scraps.  I have slow stitched them with running/stab stitches in various colours of red for the first three.  The last on the right/bottom was stitched in yellow along the gold printing on the fabric which gives it a cool look.  I drew the stems in and then stitched them.  I made them all a bit different as I was experimenting with using several different kinds of stitching to fill them in.  The leaves were hand cut and stitched into place next to the stems.  Therese

 

Packaged fire starters

Here is what they looked like all packaged and ready to go!!

Therese

 

Banana bags painted to house fire starters

Worked on fire starters this weekend and these are the bags I prepped

to package them in.

I started with bags from bananas, added a an insert to the inside front section to protect the rest of the bag and painted the front with acrylic paint.  I have several that were fairly old and with just bits of paint left in them so it was a good use of what was left in the bottles.  It was a very fun to just paint with no expectation of perfection or any particular look.  They look pretty cool!!  

Therese

 

More fire starters!!

I worked on fire starters this weekend!!!  It was so fun to play with paper and wax again!!  I made these to give to family when we camp together later this summer!! You can check out the process here.  These papers were mostly leftover from the prayer flag project I worked on a while back where I ironed the waxed flags between two pieces of paper to remove some wax and soften them so they would flap in the breeze.  Therese

 

Large card with hand decorated background, colour printed floral element and vintage seam binding

 This large card also features some of the hand decorated paper I made a while back.  I trimmed out a piece from the 12 x 12 and added some stamped flowers in pink and leaves in green which worked really well.  It coordinated perfectly with a floral digital (clipartix.com) I printed out last week.  I added a slot (SU) on each side of the floral image and added green vintage seam binding on each side.  I trimmed a piece of yellow cardstock to fit in between folding down the ends into the slots.  I added some decorative cabachons in pink and 2 clear flowers embellishments with glue dots.  I mounted this element to my decorative paper with 3D foam and then mounted the ends to theh back using double sided tape.  To finish it off I added little black dots to the edge of the focal element with a fine tip black Sharpie.  

Theres