Good Morning Thursday & Scroll Layout

   We missed all those T storms and rain last night, but it is still humid out there this morning. I should be out mowing-but not in the mood-smiles.

  I did begin work on laying out my civil war era reproduction fabrics on to the large scroll. I am liking it so far, needed a distraction.

  I have quite a collection of these fabrics as I love them. The era with earthy colors-back then mostly naturally dyed fabrics I am thinking.  I am working with a jelly roll collection-which are numerous long strips 2 1/2" wide. If I remember right I had won this collection and started making a few handsewn blocks-but decided to use those as coasters-didn't want to make a whole quilt out of those-was rather daunting at the time.

 So since these fabrics are the same width-working on being creative with the layout. I did dig through to get to a tub of fabrics that had homespuns that were soft plaids-so am using some of those too.  I also grabbed a  man's shirt as well. I used to buy as large as I could find of men's cotton shirts at the resale shops, to make numerous quilts that I had gifted to many. Great project to repurpose clothing.

  I ended up staying up late last night almost midnight-sometimes I need to be extremely tired in order to get to sleep. 

  I do have yardage also of these civil war era fabrics but only grabbed a couple of those for now. I was browsing online looking for quilt fabrics celebrating our 250th anniversary-Wow the prices have really gone up since I last purchased quilt fabrics-so still looking for those to add towards the end of the scroll.

 My last post explains the meditative scrolls with a video. Here is what I laid out last night.

Oh and I am still have commenting back issues here on my blog-I ended up deleting that last post about it-working on not fretting over this issue with Google. At least I can finally post a blog-hopefully that will continue-so if I don't comment back to yours it's a Google issue-smiles

Now for the photos  sorry my camera is not all that great click to enlarge for better viewing

  

Some of the strips still have the dates for the reproductive fabrics-will include the ones I have

 

  It is amazing how far these fabrics go-I am still going to have some left from this collection looks like. I placed another large section which makes me at the half way point for this scroll. So now I am thinking this scroll will all be just these civil war fabrics with the homespuns  I will look for another large scroll for the fabrics below.

This morning early I did find a patriotic collection in jelly roll usa made and cotton on amazon-One really needs read the description and the comments there on fabrics many were not good.  When I first wrote this up thought I would end with these modern patriotic fabrics but will look for another large scroll instead. 

Enjoy your day

Update I just found these patriotic ribbons on Etsy-perfect for my scrolls  I do not have anything like this in my craft stash..-the seller was destashing

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