Tag: Stitch Project: Remember 2016

Wimberley

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March 11, 2021 – Thrift store Nana shirt

When we first moved to Texas in 2009, we rented a house in the little town of Wimberley. It was, and is, an arts-y place, with galleries and live music and a funky town square.

Wimberley also had/has an amazing thrift store, amply supplied by the artists, musicians, authors and retired art-lovers who live there. I love/d it. So when we ventured out for our first post-Covid vaccine road trip, there was no doubt what our destination would be.

We ate lunch at the Leaning Pear …

got bedding plants at Wimberley Gardens, and best of all, shopped at the Village Store, source of many past thrifted cloth finds. All fully masked, I hasten to add, except for the al fresco dining on BBLTs (the second B is for Brie), crimini soup and fresh-squeezed lime-ade.

We didn’t spend long at the Village Store … it felt strange to be in an enclosed space with so many other people … but I did snag a great $5 buy …

100% linen in proper “Nana shirt” style. I even got complimented on it when I wore it on one of the St Louis shopping trips … ha!

So what better memory keeper for the day? The Gray Lines Linen samples yielded up a perfect match, along with a DMC 927 light grey green, which I always think of as the color of seawater …

Then I sketched out the machine embroidery pattern from the shirt in water-erasable marker and stitched away …

Precisely random or randomly precise?

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February 1, 2021 – Counting on it

I spent my time yesterday making black and white patches for the top edge of Remember 2021 …

and then finished the last patch of January to end at the same point as the last black patch …

I was surprised to find (although really, was I truly surprised?) that this new cloth will be virtually the same size as Remember 2016, even though both cloths were begun by making a month’s worth of randomly sized patches …

So it was fun to make a patch by counting threads to recall yesterday’s stitching …

although not too too precisely lest I slip back into old habits 😉

Done and done

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The second cataract surgery went well(ish) yesterday. Everything’s fine now, but ’twas uncomfortable for a time.

More important, Remember 2016 is now complete, front and back …

I stitched a white flannel backing to the pieced front using two strands of Deb Lacativa’s magical floss, running the stitches to the right side of each patch, zigging and zagging as I went, then running along the bottom of each patch …

which left a wonderfully random pattern on the b-side …

The raw edges of the flannel were turned under, stitched through to the front along the edge, then hemmed and finally secured with a second line of running stitch that did not go through to the front …

Which is probably only clear to me, but I’m recording it here so I can reference it later as needed. I even managed to sorta miter the corners …

And called it done.