Latest work is complete!

"Making a Quilt"

Inside area of this wall hanging is 13×21”, I haven’t decided if it will be quilted or framed yet or if the border that’s on it will be staying or changed.
The curtains are hand sewn, as is the padded cornice, tie backs are fuzzy artificial flowers, bunny slippers were hand sewn from batting, felt and emb. floss, chair is padded, items on bookshelf include pieces of shells and a button. The round piece of wall art is also a button, and the chest of drawers has small wooden beads as handles. Most of the fabrics are cotton.

Discrimination

This is an 8x10 felt applique piece done entirely by hand showing a bunch of green and red olives in a bowl, outside the bowl looking in is an olive with a different shape and coloration. I think the words say it all...Discrimination affects olive us... ok I couldn't resist the play on words...lol

It's a start :-)

One of my things to do this year is to begin crocheting , and maybe knitting again. During Christmas I found an old magazine with several afghans in it and fell in love with the patchwork one, which is what made me decide to begin this past time again.
Shown here is what I have done so far, I need 43 more of the squares , although I will say 44 cause that red one didn't come out right.
Also need 32 more flowers to embellish the 16 of these squares with.
Then I will move on to checkerboard blocks, and then stripes. The remaining solid blocks will have cross stitch and applique on them for embellishing.
Can you picture it yet?
The picture isn't showing the true colors, well, the red, yellow, bright blue and pink are right but the blocks that look like a navy are actually a rich purple.
I have found this to be a very relaxing, stress busting thing to do at night while watching tv..or should I say listening to it..lol although I have noticed that I can now look up occasionally and s crochet at the same time.
Funny story..
The other night I was on the chaise under a quilt working on a block, when the phone rang and scared the heck out of me...turns out the reason it scared me was because I was SLEEPING and had been for almost TWO HOURS. I was still holding the hook and block in one hand and the
strand of yarn across my fingers in the other..LOL