The big news this Monday morning is my house is clean! 🙂 If any of you have kids, you know the feeling of NEVER seeming to stay on top of the mess. We cleaned the house yesterday and except for a short tidy this morning I can say that the house looks great!
On top of this, I had a fabulous weekend! It actually started Friday with my being allowed to stitch on this:
If you want to read more about the fabric, I’ve written about it on my Houseblog, because it is fabulous vintage 1950’s fabric! Be sure to check it out if you’re in the Colorado area, because it’s going to be included in an exhibit down in Colorado Springs. I helped a gal in our neighborhood, who is a textile conservationist do the stitching and it was very educational! It took some time to catch onto how to do the stitches, but hopefully she won’t have to take out too many of them. I’m hoping to work on another post soon about her suggestions on preservation, mounting textiles and much more helpful neat stuff!
Then, speaking of the Denver Art Museum, a good friend asked me to tag along with her to see these:
This is an exhibit of Mennonite and Amish quilts. Great stuff! Even better yet, the Denver Art Museum is keeping this as a permanent textiles exhibition area! Yeah DAM!
So, after all of that, I had to get home and get to work on my own stuff. This is going to be a pillow for a really good friends daughter who is going to be baptized in the Mormon church. Her outfit has to be all white, so I figured an all white pillow would be a nice memory of the occasion.
LOVING the lace and I even found a handkerchief with an “M” on it (upside down in the photo) but it’s a really huge challenge working in all one color. Obviously it’s really variations of creme and white, but it makes an interesting study in textures.
It’s been a busy stitching weekend and my next post will be a tutorial on my FAVORITE easy-peasy silk ribbon flower! So, watch for that (hopefully today!)
