Field Trips in Fiber

Handwork Wednesday - the cat is back!

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            TODAY!>>

I haven't shown the stupid cat in a month because I had not worked on it since I returned from Houston. This weekend while I was feeling puny and watching football I actually made quite a bit of progress. This is the full extent of the sewing I have done in the last 6 days. Is there any better indication of how crappy I felt?

I'm going to start showing this wider image because it's the entire remaining section and I'll be working a little across the whole area from now on. Maybe I will be able to make a little more progress over the Thanksgiving break because I had a revelation in the grocery store today that I will not be able to eat stuffing or my Mom's fried apple pies. I have a much deeper appreciation for all of the wheat and gluten intolerant people in the world now. Eliminating wheat is much more draconian than dairy, eggs and soy combined!  I'll just start thinking of thread as my bread!

Thankful

Becky created a postcard for the November postcard challenge and then she sent it to my husband. He will love it! She is thankful for Veterans.

Becky doesn't have a blog (yet) so I'll add a link for her to this post. Don't forget to enter for yourself! You don't even have to make a card to have one entry - all you have to do is go to that post and describe the card you would make. If you make a card and post it to your blog, you get a second entry! Check out this post for all of the details. (Oh, and that's some of my metallic painted fabric in the top of the card!)

I also received this card for the Salt and Pepper swap on MQResource. It's from Judy. These postcards were quite expensive because she broke her machine while making them and wound up buying a backup sewing machine!

Field Tripping the Web - Issue 83

Yet another day of no sewing. But, no matter how I feel tomorrow, I am getting out of this house and going to work! While I wait to reenter my sewing room, here's something to keep you occupied for a while!

Eye Candy – Projects people have recently completed

• Anya's Readers are Leaders quilt
• Jeanne's Shoofly Pie quilt
• Caron's Serenity tote with Texture Magic
• Sue's Night Blooms art quilt
• Mereth's Surprise Party quilt
• Sue's "authentic" tote bag
• Wendy's Christmas BOM embroidered quilt
• Leah's challenge wall hanging
• Vivika's dog portrait quilt
• Diane's hand quilted replica vintage quilt
• Vicki's Radio Flyer scrap quilt
• Floribunda's heavy quilt for a special child
• Jackie's Kaffe HST quilt
• Libby's Broken Dishes
• Jacquie's He's A Star quilt
• Kathleen's Thankful Everyday small art quilt
• Caron's On The Town tote
• Wendy's Pieceful Garden quilt

  Longarm –specific Eye Candy

• Karen's quilting on a vintage Double Wedding Ring
• Kristen's quilting on 3 identical quilts

  Fiber and Other Art

• Gerrie's postcards - she is doing art every day so scroll around in her blog to see all the other ones she has made
• Gunnel's postcards
• Fannie's Two Sets of Wings mixed media art
• Kathy's vintage button pin
• Liz's mixed media boxes
• Deb's fabric beads
• Lorraine's journal covers
• Wendy's beaded brooch and bookmarks
• Karen's crochet bag with shibori lining
• Keryn's Etui
  

  Surfaces

• Connie's discharge dyeing
• Terri's hand dyed fabrics
• Ruth's wool dyeing
• Diane's paper making
  

  Garment Sewing

• Summerset's man's hiking fleece sweater
• Erica's V1152 little black dress
• Summerset's Vogue and Patrones dress and jacket

   Tutorials and On-line Projects

• Kellie's Joseph's Coat quilt applique tutorial, part 2
• Kellie's Joseph's Coat applique tutorial
• Summerset's tutorial for making a dress lining  
• Helen-Mary's tutorial for tying off threads ends on the longarm
• Barbara shows how she makes string blocks and assembles them in the top
• Dawn's Merry Delights embroidered pillow
• Shannon has started a BOM project on her blog
• Gudrun's Sweet Trimmings Christmas wall hanging tutorial, is the first free project in the Cross Country Christmas Quilt Designer's Blog Hop
• Sandy's Christmas table mat, the second free project in the Cross Country Christmas Quilt Designer's blog hop
  
• Connie shoes how she mounts her quilts to canvas wrapped frames
  

 Other Interesting Things

• Leah is having a giveaway for a big bag of  quilty scraps, the drawing is Saturday
• Craftnouveau is having a book giveaway through Nov 14. Check here for the rules.
• Hawthorne Threads is having a giveaway of Art Gallery fabrics, the drawing is Nov 16
• Quilt Gallery is having a Holiday Traditions quilt contest
  

 Found on Etsy

Monograms are hot right now. If you got to Etsy and search "monogram" you will find over 25,000 items! Here are a few of my favorites:

• Yebisu carries lots of vintage things for your projects, like these antique embroidered monograms
• Freshly Skeweezed has a wide variety of letterpress monogrammed stationery. I like this peppermint pinstripe set
• Roberts Shapiro has a line of monogrammed stone pendants, even a V
• Wall Spoken is there for you if you want a giant monogram on your wall
• kelsyhenke uses photographs of vintage sign letters to make framed word art to say anything you want
  

Whistlestop Web Tour - Volume 24

has been published to the MQResources site. This week I found lots of free patterns for Christmas decorations.

Color Palette - Coupla Nuts

Thank goodness for blog friends who are doing enough good things to help me keep my blog active while I fend off the flu. Thanks to Gabi (I'd pay good money to have a name as cool as Gabriela Divine!), I have a post for today. Actually I saw this photo on her blog and immediately "borrowed" it to make a color palette. I liked it so much that I then wrote and begged permission to post it. If you are not a regular reader of Gabi's blog, you really should check it out. She takes beautiful photographs and makes incredible greeting cards with lots of perfect little details. She lives just north of me in Virginia. My husband has met her but I haven't had the pleasure yet!

Here's her photo "Coupla Nuts". Please do not use this photo without permission from Gabi. The colors down the right side are the leaf. Across the bottom are the colors from the background and nuts. If I were using these, I'd likely use all except the three larger swatches on the bottom.