The Sun is shining and temps are in the high 40's. Riley and I are spending the day together. G is off delivering Valentine Flowers for my former employer. He's been busy since 8:30 am so I'm sure he'll arrive home with a pocket full of cash. Riley misses him. And they just left for the "walk" and Riley is over the moon happy.
The art up top--- I painted the background fabric with plain white cotton and bottles of paint from JoAnn's with bubble wrap pressed to the surface (look closely). The vase is commercial cotton as are the stems and leaves. The flowers are "fussy cuts" from a floral fabric. Happy Valentine's Day!
I have been up in the Magic Attic. I found one finished, one started and two marked blanks of a floral appliqué. I finished the one that was started and then went looking for the fabrics I used to make the first two. It was a long time ago. Needle turn appliqué. I found.......nothing. I did find two really close matches for the pink/red and the tiny red print. The really great green I used for the stems and leaves---is not in the Attic. I looked and looked and then went up again to look more.
I was really getting into doing the needle turn --like--it was really fun! I wanted to do more. Now I am stumped. Two are finished and two are blanks. So--two the same and two different?? It could work.
The Magic Attic coughed up a bit of Valentine Magic. Batiks. Not the blue one but a handful of batik dots in all sorts of colors-gold, green, etc. And three long, narrow brown pieces that look like plant based dye experiments. The plants printed black and dark grey on the brown. They will likely go together with the dye sample squares from Karen and I am very happy about that.
I got a Valentine in the mail today. No name. No return address. If it's someone who reads this-- yes
Love Conquers All. Thank you.
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