Hope everyone had a great weekend! It was gorgeous here in Boston.

His work is amazing and I’ve been stalking his Etsy shop for a while, looking for the perfect piece (usually what I want has just sold). This is the best though! I am going to find the right spot in my studio to hang it up. Then I can get back to his shop and start to shop again- I think my moth might need a friend.

And, I finished up this owl.

I was in the mood for a quick project and this owl body was already sewn and stuffed.

Of course I can make any project more complicated by spending hours picking through my fabrics!

I had fun looking at amazing antique toile fabrics- the originals that most of what I use is reproduced from. I bought buttons. I hadn’t planned on focusing on that, but I never seem to know until I get there!

I am most excited about these-

I can’t wait to put them on a fox’s jacket!

Today was spent doing a lot of this and that. This morning I collected a pile of dolls and sewed on signature tags and wrote up and attached their hang tags. It is a boring job but it is good to get it out of the way.  I often leave it until the last minute before going to a show and that is only one of the many ways I can make myself crazy. Anyway, all done now.

He has long sideburns.

2 pirate pals.

This is the what my son is doing in England- so amazing!

I’ve had a crazy week that somehow shattered my focus. I seem to be going in all directions and am trying to force myself back on track. I need to focus on finishing all the pieces I’ve started!

Isn’t this amazing skeleton toile? I thought it needed to be a pirate.

I lightened up this photo so you can see the design of the fabric. It started out black and white and I over-dyed it with blue.

We took our annual trip to Logee’s last Sunday. It always feels like a mini-vacation.

I’m going to be putting these last 4 fellows into my Etsy shop soon- hopefully tomorrow afternoon. I’m still working on the men though- there will be some more new ones soon.

I gave him more prominent ears-

His “belt buckle” is an antique shell button.

If you believe that I have control over how these faces turn out, you’d be wrong. I use a water-erasable marker to mark out where the features go and draw in a rough sketch. If I had any real control, all the faces would be the same. But, as you might notice, they don’t because I don’t. I start stitching and whoever it turns out that they are, appears!

And I think this one is particularly appealing!

I spent some time in the garden over the weekend. I worked on the compost pile- which is great news because it means my back is MUCH better- Hurray! My favorite gardening toy is my compost thermometer (I’ve probably mentioned that before) and you can see here that my pile was close to 130 degrees F this morning. That’s my idea of excitement!

The first of this batch.

This toile is beautiful- clear imagery, nice fabric, great scale. Good thing I like it because the remnant I bought is 3 yards! That is a lot of tattoos.