Here is my nine patch. Each of the squares had a circle hand appliquéd to it's surface. Then the squares were arranged and sewn together. All of this was done with needle and thread. No machines.
Not even a rotary cutter. They looked boring and unfinished.
So I took a handful of scrap pieces of fabric with me to the couch where I spend quite a bit of Time. I tried out different things. Some I liked enough to sew down. Some I didn't like after they were sewn down (and then snipped and removed--sometimes more than once) This has never been pressed with the iron. Though I really would like to press it.
The idea here was about moons but really--it's about "circles" as nothing here ever was saying anything about moons.
The next prompt for the work is supposed to be layering and invisible stitches to hold the two layers together. Then quilting or adding embroidery stitching. I am wondering if I should just cut all the squares apart and make something else. Like a placemat for the table. To set my dinner plate on top of. I can continue to adorn this fabric square with more and more---I have another piece, much different, which has been so adorned and now is "just awful" and is buried in the scrap wastebasket. Waiting to be cut up and used for something. Such a waste of Good Thread.
And so ends February. It hasn't been the greatest month. Another storm is coming in with March. Supposedly rain but possibly snow and ice as well. Flooding. There is no sun today. I am getting tired of bananas. Haven't had a decent lunch all month. Put sugar in my coffee twice by accident and the pot is empty. So over sweet coffee or none was my choice. Had to accompany G to his doctor appointments because I am the only one of the two of us who remembers anything.
I think I am well and truly ready for February to push off. March will be better, right????
I like that, it doesn't need more, keep it as is.
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