I think I’d call her hair strawberry blond.
Once again I am being distracted by a quilt. Instead of focusing on any one thing, I am flitting between projects and everything moves forward slowly. The nice weather is another distraction. The flowers are amazing this year.
Lots and lots of dancing skeletons.
The hair bows seem 1920’s to me.
She has a fancy button on her belt.
This is the same fabric as the mustache man. It is fun to cut out the body pieces to highlight different parts of the fabric design.
A man with a mustache,
and a lot of giant flowers and foliage. This is a fun print. Brown hair and brown eyes.
A blond and bearded sailor man.
With his hat,
and without.
Boats, boats, and more boats!
French knot “buttons” on his trousers.
Well, you can’t really see his hair the the above photo but this one-
and this one-
and this one!
Here is a close-up of his embroidered belt- front-
and back-
I’m continuing to work on pieces that were part-way finished before I left for Washington at the end of April. It makes me feel as though I am actually accomplishing something when I am being distracted by lots of other things like the garden and clothes-making. There are never enough hours in the day.
A very complicated scene on his chest (and arms and back).
I made some owls this weekend. These 3 were all ready to go- I’d cut out all the pieces before the DC show but ran out of time to finish them. I only had to do the most fun part- stitching all the pieces in place!
I think of this one as my 70’s owl. I might have had some pants made of that brown plaid in 1970, or at least something very similar!
This one has lots of great textures.
And lastly, this very serious fellow.
I had fun with my variegated threads, stitching around his eyes.
I received a very nice email asking me to reproduce a dog doll that they had bought from Land of Nod. She told me such a nice story about how much they loved it and how the old one had gotten destroyed by a new pup. I explained that it would be similar but not exactly the same and she was okay with that. And, here he is.
I was lucky because I had all the colors of wool that I needed!
