Day 70
Cause here in Albuquerque it was C-O-L-D all day...and the winds are crazy icy cold and besides the dust devil that engulfed our house and made it shake the gusts stayed at about 40 all afternoon. But this AM we put on our jackets and went outside to clean up the drifted garbage and tumbleweeds that yesterday's windstorm brought us. The cats are wanting to come outside too but we had work to do!
The blossoms all over town are pink and white...this is the ornamental pear in our backyard..small but growing!
I received yet another box from my mom who must be cleaning out everything she owns...these are various tree paintings that my Grandfather did--I have got to find a way to preserve all this art she keeps sending me, think I will have to come up with some sort of large display on a wall downstairs.
also in the box were more old craft and sewing books...I have not had time to flip through them though as I had a schedule of things I wanted to accomplish today. There were so many things that she sent in this box and so many memories.
I did manage to complete the scarf-my scarf- from the scrappy bits sent to me from Scott of Blue Nickel Studios...I put bamboo on the back for softness and just threw in some loopy free machine stitching
This is how the hand embroidery on the t-shirt turned out. I am pretty happy with it, next time I will use thinner thread, but for this particular design I was looking for something more raw but it was not suitable for seeing the details...if I do this again I will enlarge the design. I even used real safety pins which I though was cooler than stitching them!
I love the idea of the real safety pins in the shirt! Classic!
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