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Great Family News!

4/28/2021

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Last month I received a text message from my niece; who I refer to as "The Wonder Baby", but that is another story. She texted to tell me that she is following in the family tradition of "ELOPING". My cousin Amy eloped, I eloped, my sister eloped for her second marriage, and now my neice is!

Yes, technically telling her mother and I that she is eloping, is not really eloping but since she is not having a formal wedding and they are going to another state; well it qualifies in our family's books.

So what does one give your only niece as a wedding present?  It has to be something special that can also become a family heirloom and in my opinion that present should be unique and thus one of a kind.  One of a kind items can be bought and even commissioned but why not actually MAKE the present. So that's what I am going to do.

Through out her life, I have made her quilts; I made her first one when she was about 4. I let her know what I wanted to do and that I needed some input from her so they would like it. We have now traded almost a dozen emails and have settled on a pattern and "colors" as well as the size; I will pick the final fabrics and then sew it and get it professionally quilted.  I will go visit them when it is time to give them the quilt. 

Here is picture of The Wonder Baby with her mom (my sister) back in 2002! Below this picture of my niece is a picture of one of the many quilts I have made her. This quilt, made in 2000, used the satin from my mother's wedding dress, in the some of the stars.
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Pandemic Stats - April 2021

4/20/2021

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Oh, yes it is that time again!
Duration: 13 (+1) OR 1 year 30 days
Covid Vaccine: 1 (+1)
Trips to the Office: 6 (0)
Pounds Lost: 13 (0)
Books Read: 39 (+2)
Temari Made: 56 (+1)
Temari Tutorial/Pattern Written: 8 (0)
Yubinuki Made: 11 (+2)
Lines of Executable Code Written: 37,471 (+21635)
Studio Ghibli Movies Watched: 20 ( )
Other Series Binge Watched: 10 (+2)
Haircut: 1 (0)
Voted for President: 1 (0)
Sewing Projects: 2 (0)
Participation in Snowmageddon: 1 (+0)
Texas Chart of New Cases from the beginning to now. (below)
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Basket Weave Temari and Yubinuki

4/11/2021

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Last month I started this basket weave temari. I based it on a temari from one of the books from Japan (Cosmo #5) but where they used 2 colors, I used 5 - 3 for the main weaved squares and two for the framing. I also changed up how the bands weave into the framing. I chose one direction (x, y or z) for each color this results in  2 of the 3 main colors being woven in each square and the squares on opposite sides of the temari are the same.   I also took many measurements long the way to make sure everything stayd "true" so the framing at the corners would meet nice and tight. Then I made a coordinated yubinuki using the same colors, again in a basket weave where stitched threads are the warp (vertical threads) and the weft (horizontal) are woven but NOT stitched.
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A few more Yubinuki

4/1/2021

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A few more yubinuki - the pink one is for the Plum Blossom temari that lives in Scotland, which I made last year. The green one is for the Cedar temari I made last month.
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    Laurie lives in central Texas with the memory of Erich, a.k.a. "the shop elf", who was her hubby of 35+ years and Cowboy Boots, the cat; her metals studio including 100+ hammers and 300+ chasing tools; her sewing studio which has a sewing machine, a closet filled with fabric, hundreds of skeins of embroidery floss and perle cotton, silk and other materials, and Mrs. King the dress dummy; one weaving loom, assorted knitting needles, tubs of yarn; assorted art supplies of pencils, colored pencils, water color pencils, water color paints, acrylic paints, markers, and pads of paper; lots of books; plus a plethora of geeky tech gadgets, computers, and more.

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