Okay, I know I'm early, but I'm so sick I don't think I'm going to be able to any proper posts before Saturday.

So Merry Christmas, happy holidays, good solstice, all of that.

See you next week!

Not to mention the achy flu symptoms.  *le wah*

And so, though I planned to have a finished art quilt to show you today, I'm going to be posting a couple more of the stockings I've entered in the mini-peep boot contest that Lizzie House is having.

This one's my favourite - faux pony and sequins and beading, oh my!  It's not quilted like the first one was, but I still think it's totally cute.




And speaking of "totally" - I am TOTALLY addicted to making these little numbers.  I want to make 20 or so of them and do a whole mini tree of them next year.  BSP thinks they're great fun and agrees that we ought to have a mini-stocking tree.  (You'd only know how amazing that agreement is, if you knew we already have four Christmas trees which get put up every year.)



And then I made another quilted one, which I had to bead just cuz they're saucy that way.  :)

I have one more that I want to make for the contest (a shimmery baby blue number) and I have until the end of the day tommorrow to do so - however, I've been so sick I literally haven't been able to stand for more than five minutes and get dizzy and nauseous if I do so.  Not to mention, that if I say more than three words I start coughing up my lungs.  *le wah*



Off to the doctor tommorrow for me; and maybe if I can, another mini stocking for the contest.

Hope you're all doing much, MUCH better than I am (it took me two hours to make this little post!) and I look forward to talking to you all later in the week.

Cheers,

Kit

1. Summer Grove with Fireflies

This "digital doodle" called Summer Grove with Fireflies is by A Drawing A Day  Unfortunately, I have no link or identification information about this person other than their Flickr account, but I highly encourage having a scroll through their work.

There's a lot to choose from for inspiration... this one's "feeling" may show up in a quilt of mine in the very near future!

So, dear readers....

What inspires you?

I quilted it overall in my standby for small project - honeycomb quilting, and then I hand beaded it with green glass beads.




And I even free motion quilted some little trees on the ankle band!

The pattern is from Lizzy House quilts .  Join in the fun!

Here in Ontario, we've had crazy snowstorms the last week  - as much as 46 centimetres in one night,  and it continues to snow!

Of course, when you have that much snow, you make snow angels, snow caves, snow forts, and snow men - or in my case, snow people!


Of course, mine were on a table runner - which I made so that I'd have something to show you today (because the owners of two of the commissions I'm working on have asked me not to publish). 

However, our kitchen is white and a paler shade of that blue, so it'll be put to good use.

And how are you all doing in these last days before Christmas?

1. Red Rocks

This is a piece by Jane LaFazio, but it's the kind of thing that I imagine I will make with my fliffer floffer once I get it.  What's a "fliffer floffer" you ask?  Oh, I'm sorry, didn't you know?  It's a needle felter.  In particular, the Janome FM-725.

For the past couple of weeks I've been researching needle felters and have/had decided on the Janome FM-725.  However, when I went to my usual sewing machine guy, he informed me that Janome wasn't making it any more!  I called Janome direct, and they confrimed that it was true, although they said they would support it forever.  So then I called around and sadly, most places haven't had one.

I did find two - or so I thought - the other day I sent  BSP to pick it up at a particular location, and it turned out that the dealer lied!  She didnt' have it - didn't even know what it was and had never heard of a fliffer floffer.  *ahem*  BSP called me from the dealer and asked me what the fliffer floffer was called.  After the dealer got the information that the FM 725 was a needle felter and not a fliffer floffer, she still maintained she had never heard of such a thing and didn't quite believe it existed.

In any case, the hunt continues.  (I may have to settle for a Babylock version).  However, when I finally do get one, I will of course call it "Fliffer Floffer" - because seriously - could there be a better name?