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| Patch #1 Rosemary-dyed linen, 1 3/4" x 1 3/4" |
Only 365 to go (I would have to pick a leap year, right?) Or maybe 730 to go ... because maybe I'll do two patches each day. Who knows?
But for now, this one patch is enough. It took very little time and it's not "perfect" (which is something I'm getting better at accepting). It started with rosemary-dyed linen, which is close to the background color of the blog.The grid was running stitched freehand. The lettering was inked in, then backstitched in red to match the Remember post two days ago. I'm pretty happy with how well the tiny (3/10ths of an inch square) 2016 came out...
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| Extreme close up |
As noted above, the entire patch is 1 3/4" square, a size that I settled on after trying quarter-inch increments from 1 to 2 inches on the Land of Flood and Drought. Other patches may or may not be square, but for now I'm sticking with 1 3/4" for one of the dimensions.
Here's how it played out on paper ...
followed by a good night's sleep, during which my mind came up with ...
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| Ruth Munson Barnett was my mom, MR is Don's nickname for our younger daughter and EEEEEEE ... well, you know |
This is gonna be fun!
and more eeeeeeeeeee.....
ReplyDeletewell, i will LOVE riding along with this. You know how i am so NOT a patch
person, 9 or otherwise. Just not in me, but i will so love watching you...
how you find such individual ways to work such a small square....
Hey Ho! as Jude would say.....
The blog world would be a sorry place if we all did the same thing ... here's to seeing how many ways we can combine cloth and thread to tell our tales !
DeleteP.S. If anyone had told me a year or two ago that I would be doing patchwork and loving it I wouldn't have believed them.
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