Tag: Stitch: Patchplay

April …

~ Liz A ~ 16 Comments

is done …

But there are still patches to show and stories to tell. Not to mention, May is already well-underway.

So watch this space …

Birthday Season

~ Liz A ~ 14 Comments
April 24-30, 2021 – Parker turns 4

I’ve mentioned it before, but our family adopted a wonderful concept called “Birthday Season” from Heather, first written about here …

And so, I decided to celebrate Parker’s 4th Birthday Season with a week’s worth of patches, which began with a real party with real (vaccinated) people on Saturday, April 24 …

  • Look …
  • it’s a uni-sprinkler!
  • “Calling” …
  • to thank Nancy for the cowgirl shirt
  • Sparkle nails …
  • and P’s (still) “three”
  • “Now be silly!”

There was also homemade pizza, fired up in Paul’s birthday season oven …

And while I don’t have any pictures of the very very blue Frozen ice cream cake frenzy, I do have a picture of Ellis greeting the waxing gibbous moon …

We returned on Tuesday to celebrate Parker’s actual birthday, but I was so in the moment that there are only a few pictures to share …

Along the way, Meg commented that P has been making peace signs recently when getting her picture taken. “We don’t know how that started,” she mused …

“peace out 3”

Don looked at me and I looked at Don. Then I fessed up, “well, I might have had something to do with that.”

So in the true spirit of Birthday Season, I’ll leave you with these patches of Tina’s pink and Deb’s blue stitched with variegated thread …

  • Parker’s P, so Perfectly done
  • along with her Artistic A
  • Really, she tells me, R is just a P with a line
  • and if her K is Kinda crazy looking, it’s all there
  • followed by an E, which is Everything you could hope for …
  • from a tRuly cReative giRl!

all taken from P’s signature on this art project, shown to us by her very proud big brother …

P.S. There may be a few more pictures to come because, you know, Birthday Season 😉

Kindred Spirits

~ Liz A ~ 19 Comments
April 8, 2021 – Marti’s Kokopelli

Marti may not have her own blog, but she is well-known to all of us from the thought-full comments she writes. So it was with some surprise that I learned of her recent move in a comment on this April 6 post, aptly named Taking the Challenge.

As sometimes happens, our conversation about moving continued behind the scenes via e-mail. Marti sent pictures of her new digs and some of her Kokopelli collection. So I asked if I could share them here and she graciously said yes …

The two I liked best were of Marti herself (sipping her morning coffee on the deck where she most recently spotted a hummingbird and a jackrabbit) and her hand-dyed and stitched collage cloth …

I zoomed in on the Kokopelli image on my phone and photocopied it on my home printer (which was running out of ink). Then poked holes around the Kokopelli outline and traced with erasable marker on muslin dyed with wildflowers at our Hill Country house …

At which point I decided to (finally) try Jude Hill’s wrap stitch with Deb’s threads in shades of New Mexico desert sand, prickly pear tunas, chamisa flowers, and autumn cottonwood leaves …

Best of all, I just let the colors fall wherever they happened to appear …

dancing to their own music.