A New Day

   I have decided on the title of this piece.  The sun is finished, using a feather stitch in silk buttonhole thread, to tone down the colors and give some texture.  Now i want to do some more embroidery on the trees and add some plants.  I struggle with the urge to start another project [...]

This Sprout has a Hat

I soaked and planted Martha’s butternut squash seeds this week, and look! there are sprouts this afternoon.  And this one was still wearing its little hat.  Sorry, I still have not mastered the close-up focus on this camera.  I did not start working on the “rooster” project until a couple hours ago, so there is no [...]

Catching Up

Yesterday, Friday, i worked for quite a while getting “Chickenville” sewn down.  Now i am definitely not happy with the sun, so it comes off.  I gave away a bunch of perennial flowers this morning to a happy new gardener, making it such a pleasure.  Each time I dig something up, i think of the person [...]

Chickenville

This is what I got done on Thursday, the 22nd.  4 of the trees are sewn and the buildings are pinned.  I think that “Chickenville”, Cielo and Leaf’s cluster of chicken houses must be on my mind!  Thanks for the inspiration.  I am glad to be working on something like this after weeks of sorting [...]

Who is crowing?

Two things happened this week, I uncovered some block-printed roosters that i had used for potholders, and the neighborhood crows have been making an enormous racket.  This morning two large crows were on the wire outside my front door, and as i shooed them away, two youngsters took flight with them!  No wonder there has [...]