OWL BODY

 I bought the pdf for the Dastardly Owl pattern on Ann Wood's Handmade site.

I scrounged around for a few fabrics and made the body this morning.

Here's how I left him.  Those are pins where his eyes will go.

I rummaged through my Grandma Jennie's button collection and found two black buttons to use for the eyes.

I'll get to those tomorrow.

After lunch I made another page spread in my Junk Art Journal.

I'm having fun.

ART JOURNAL

Some friends mentioned an Art Journaling program of prompts and inspiration.  Since I don't feel like sewing I thought I'd check it out.  It's called Care December put on by Everything-Art.com 

So, today I made a 'junk journal'.  I found an old hard-bound book, cut the pages out and inserted some papers I had in my paper files that I haven't used in years.  I even sewed them into the cover.

That was day one.

 

NATURE JOURNALING

I attended a zoom workshop about Nature Journaling this morning.  It was put on by a Naturalist from the San Francisco Bay area.  They do these monthly, but I just discovered them.  Maybe I'll do more of them, it was fun.

MOVING THINGS AROUND

First thing this morning I started looking for a new iron, since mine died yesterday.  Can't do much sewing without an iron.  I thought about getting a 'tank' type iron - but they are expensive and I decided against it mainly because of the way my ironing board is set up.  I don't know where I would put the tank and have it be accessible yet out of my way.

So, when I found the professional Rowenta model I settle on I found the best price on Amazon.  I ordered it and was surprised to see that it would be delivered today, before 6pm, still free shipping.  Amazing.  [And it was.]

In the meantime, I cut out pieces and put them on the wall.  At the end of the morning, I wasn't really happy with it and spent some time moving a few groups around.

I was amazed when I downloaded these pictures of the quilt and the flowers - the colors are very similar.  Hmmm.

I took a picture of the Coneflowers so I could paint them into my journal.  It was hard to get the deep red/orange of the flowers right on this paper.  But I like it.

BAD TUESDAY

I quilted some more on the Leaf Tablerunner.  I outlined the leaves with an echo, then I really screwed up.  I thought I'd put a motif in the background.  I marked it with chalk and then quilted one row across before I realized I was quilting over the echo around the leaves.  The background is dark and I didn't see the previous stitching.  Now I need to un-stitch all of that.  I just left.  I didn't feel like doing that.  It's not going to be easy because the Essex Linen background is a loose weave.  Bummer.

Instead, I painted in my journal.  That was satisfying.

SEWING ROWS

I finished the last 5 blocks of the Wallflower quilt and then sewed two rows together.

This thing is going to be big - it won't fit on my design wall.

I bought a journal to record the quilts that I longarm.  I want to know when I've quilted 100 quilts - that will have paid for my machine.  [what machine, you might say.  I don't know where it is - all I know is that I paid for it already.]

You can see the journal in this first photo.

This Wallflower quilt will be one of the first, I hope.