Google Issues

   My blog worked so well yesterday but now I am back to not being able to comment back to a comment. Will visit some friends blogs and see if commenting is an issue there as well.  I am really frustrated that I am having such issues.

  I started blogging when we retired around 2003  and is the platform I enjoy the most for sharing and interacting with friends.

  Oh well Google has no way to contact them either-they have pretty much neglected this platform over the years-it is what it is so just have to deal with it smiles.

  Needed to go to town for a few errands-early before 8 am and wow it was super humid and hot already. I think big storms are coming in tonight. Hoping no damaging winds.

 There is one family grocery store nearby where I went and was hoping they would have beef ribs like a beef short rib-nope they said they don't carry those-thinking why not when they have a counter with just angus beef cuts. Oh well. So I picked up jumbo shrimp frozen to boil-they sell a really good brand in that store. When I was at wal mart yesterday they had no beef ribs either. thought this was strange.

  I won't be working outdoors todays do to the weather-so I think I will be playing with some of my civil war reproduction fabrics to begin laying out on the large scroll.

  Happy mid-week

Slow Stitch-Meditative Scrolls

 Good Morning,

  I am still stitching on the third slow stitch bag. This one has taken a lot of time do to the smaller stitches. I had cut out already for 12 bags from my own hand dyes. This is starting to become a bit daunting. After this bag I will change the slow stitches to larger to speed up the process. I never should have cut out so many but my thought at the time was to begin using up my hand dyes to share with friends.

  Being my husband's care giver I have enjoyed working on these bags as we are very home bound now

   I follow a fiber artist and slow stitch instructor on You Tube. She lives in Europe and I have really enjoyed and learned from her. She has been sharing about meditative slow stitch scrolls that I am getting set up to do. This is an older video of hers but really explains the meditation of this process

Here is her video.

  I looked in my craft room stash and I found a bag of vintage wooden thread spools and also one larger weaving spool-of course I did haha   The last quilt I had put together used a cotton backing that was wide enough to have no seams, so I found a left over piece of it-just perfect for this set up. I have a bit more fabric left for a couple more small spools

My Mom was into making handmade bags of all sorts-this one is perfect to hold this project

This is some of the smaller spools I added to the bag, and found these civil war reproduction quilt fabrics that I have loved but not used much of-so thinking I may use these on the large spool I never did get around to making a civil war era quilt This year would probably be a good one to do that as we celebrate our country's 250th birthday.

I was happy to find this large spool in my stash-as looking around online they are very expensive now-These spools are now ready to start slow stitching on

In her video she mentions a book and author-and I have book-it is a good one.

   Hoping this blog will work-have missed all my friends here

Good Morning

   Thought I would give a new blog another try.

Still am not able to delete the blog that doesn't work.

  It has been very humid here this month with lots of rain. I always welcome the rain though as some summers here in the Ozarks get very little

  Still enjoying slow stitch projects-I am setting up a scroll soon-more later.

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