As you can see, my daughter has made a lot of progress this week on her Prague cityscape counted cross stitch picture. I'm told that the blue parts are all water of some sort...I wonder what colour she will stitch next? It will be interesting to see the buildings...
I have been working on my new cross stitch picture---this one is the office window in Frank Lloyd Wright's studio in Oak Park, IL. Unlike the last picture I just completed, this one is only three colours plus the outlining. I will be stitching in the car again tomorrow.
The London Modern Quilt Guild had their 5th anniversary meeting today and celebrated with an open house. There were games, vendors, and of course, cake. I bought myself a new pair of scissors to keep by my sewing machine for cutting threads. Aren't they cute?
I also purchased 4 fat quarters to use in my Sarah Fielke Coming Home BOM which starts later this month. I have been gathering up my fabrics this week for this project. The three grays are the backgrounds and the rest of the fabrics will be used for the piecing and appliqué.
I'm sure many of you have been watching the Tidying up show on Netflix lately---I have been tackling my fabric storage area and have been making progress in organizing and, yes, getting rid of some fabric that no longer brings me joy...I'm actually wondering if some of the discards ever brought me joy...I can't remember ever purchasing some of them!
My fabric has been sorted by colour in plastic drawers for a long time but they were getting messy and some of the drawers would not shut...after some purging and folding, all of the drawers shut and the fabrics are all visible when I open the drawers.
The challenge will be to keep them tidy (and use the fabric!) I have a lot of fabric... Don't be fooled by these pictures of neat and tidy fabric...there are still piles to be tackled and organized. The joyless fabric will be sold at our annual rummage sale at the Elgin Piecemakers Guild meeting---we put the money towards our comfort quilts for adult chemo patients. I'm hoping that others find joy in my discards!
Finn had a lazy morning today.
I will be linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers in the morning.
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