Journal Block 4 of 2009

Five Fabric Circles sewn to fusible interfacing, right side of fabric sewn to fusible side of interfacing, trim, split interfacing and turn right side out, arrange on a piece of fabric, press with a steam iron. The one I saw had a blanket stitch around each circle, since my machine doesn't have that stitch I used different stitches around each circle. Lesson learned, be careful which colors overlap since the dark will show thru the lighter color. Easy fun project.

Week 4 of 2008. Oh yeah.

Week 3 -2009

Pastels painted on off white fabric. I used leading to make a stained glass effect. Lesson learned.. keep tip clean.

2008 - Fun fabric with stitching

Week 2

This is nylon type mesh sewing on a block of red fabric and then fringed by pulling threads.

2008 word of month POT.
tea POT, watering POT growing in a POT on a POT. I had fun with this one.

JOurnal block 3 of 2009

Using bleach and a paint brush I wrote " Yes we can " , a bleach pen would be much better. I printed the Inauguration decoration and fused it on.

Journal block 3 of 2008

Journal block 2 of 2009

Remember cutting snowflakes out of paper as a child, that was my thought as I started this project.
I cut the snowflake out of fusible interfacing and ironed it on the blue fabric, used flannel for the backing and top stitched.

Journal block 2 of 2008. Pot was the word of the month in Jan. 2008.

Journal Block 1 of 2009

This was Journal Block 1 in 2008, at the time I thought I might was to do hand embroidery again.

Journal block 1 in 2009. Brushed paint on sheet of plastic, scraped off the paint for the 9 and squiggles, layed the plastic paint side down on the fabric. Using a roller would be better for even paint coverage.

Journal Block 52

The holly was done with oil pastels, even after heat setting they smudged a bit. Layered with batting and backing and top stitched.

Week 1 - 2009

Word of the month is "nine". Top stitching with gold thread on cream colored fabric.




This was last years JB for the first week. I must have been in a more festive frame of mind in 2008.

Week 52 - 2008

Oh Christmas tree???? Bias strips (trying for a tree shape) stitched with decorative stitch.