One Needs A Touch Of Color

It was time.  Don't you agree?

It was also time to start being a good blog buddy and actually visit y'all on a regular basis.  It's difficult to get back into the social-presence habit, but I am a reformed Toad. Rest assured that from this day forward, I may not comment, but I'll be out here judging you.  Also, some of you people need to post more often. (And this is me after a sloth-hiatus.)

I am here today to introduce you to what I do when I'm not out shoplifting:

I embroider.  Yup.

Mainly turtles lately.  This is a swanky turtle.

This is a Van Gogh turtle.

Plain and fancy turtles.

Bumpy turtles and smooth turtles.

Ocean turtles that are not regularly blue. 

And here is what everybody asks - 'What does the other side look like?'  It looks like this. Here ya go.

Each one of them is about 6 inches by six inches, or 152.4 mm by 152.4mm. Lo these many years gone by, one of my Bloggy friends had a nasty hole. I was able to cover it with Style. If you have a nasty hole you'd like me to cover, I'd be more than pleased. Doesn't have to be a turtle.

 

You'd be surprised what I can do. 

Seriously. 

Send a picture.

"So why are you embroidering 30005789347 turtles all of a sudden? you may ask.  It's because my Biker wants a turtle quilt, and these are the appliques that are going to go on the topper.  

Yes, I also quilt!  Well, I make 'tufted coverlets' if you're one of those super picky types. Some have pieced tops, and some have embroidered tops. I don't have time to go dicking around with a quilting frame or to go paying a shop to put it through a longarm.  Quilts are about saving money!  I'll be dipped before I pay between $100.00 - $350.00 for that B.S. Take my tufting and like it, peasant. 

Yes, I am a fabric queen. Yes, I have a stash. Yes, I have a 1940 Kenmore sewing machine with all the bells and whistles. I am also a rabid fan of 

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It's been years since I made an item of clothing from scratch.  What I do is upcycle stuff I find at garage sales - but it's been years since I did that too, because I discovered character t's online. You do the math.     

-A t-shirt is comfy, stretchy, and has no buttons to go zanging off the walls every time I reach for something.  

-You can print an H. R. Giger picture on a t-shirt. Try that with a button-up. It'll suck. 

-They deliver t-shirts in the mail.  This means no trips out into public. 👍👍👍 

How many of you out there sew your own?