Working on Several Projects

I was working on this post yesterday and managed somehow to lose it. Oy.

So I am working on several projects.  You may remember that I bought this fabric at B Textiles (see my previous post).

I started to make a 12" ish square wall art piece which looks something like this:

 

I am not enamoured of it.  I wanted to incorporate fabric from my wedding dress (the white flowers), ostensibly being the reason I went to B Textiles a second time.  I started quilting it using straight (for the most part) lines with different spacing between them.  It looked so much more impressive in Carolyn Murphy's work...

In the meantime, I made four little collage pieces using the same fabrics.  Two I made on a background of felted felt - not crazy about the textile, and two I made on handmade paper which I purchased during Covid.

Here they are:

.5"

 If I knew how to orient them so they have the shorter ends at top and bottom, I would.  Also the frames are smaller than I usually purchase.  But they are done.  At least one thing off my list.

I am working on cotton scraps.  A while ago I received triangular pieces, most likely cut-offs from binding strips.  I sewed them into quarter squares (is that a term) and have now cut most of them down to 2.5", 2", and 1.5" squares which I will sew onto lightweigth interfacing in 20" strips to be used in some project down the road.

Here are the before scraps:

 And here are the first of the strips:

 I am also working on a quilt for Alana.

I showed her three tops I had made, and she chose this one.

 So I bought some more white-on-white fabric for the outside borders, and some batting.  I was relying on a fabric I had to be used for the backing but when I spread it out, I realized it had little rust dots in many places and went back to the drawing board.  I found two more different pieces of lavender cotton (no photo yet), so my next step is to cut the border strips and piece the backing.

I will be presenting the the POM L&S group next month how to make stencils of Hebrew letters so I had to figure out how to do that and I have, if I can get my laptop to converse with the printer.  My laptop is on the 2nd floor, the printer in the basement so I have been getting in my steps..I am also trying to do something with a mask I wore while having radiation treatments for a meningioma (shhh - my mother doesn't know about the treatments or the meningioma.  I will post when it is further along.  

So now I can cross one more thing off my to do list (this blog post).