My Life in Stitches

A New Bear in the Garden

I'll have to start giving them names...

Her jacket and pants are made from an old 50's tablecloth pinned at the top with a funky brooch!

Her face and body are the softest alpaca...

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July 1st already?

~~Red~~ Pink, white and blue summer bears ready for completion...

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Yo Yos

I love these!

and this...

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Happy Friday

The hydrangeas growing outside now will become part of this gigantic dried arrangement I add to all the time to carry me through the long New England winters:

What's growing today in my garden:

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Red

Here are my red items to finish off the Cinderberry Stitches color challenge. What fun it has been!

My favorite red hankies from my extensive collection of vintage textiles:

Some of my vintage quilt blocks - this applique block is known as "turkey tracks"...

"courthouse steps" - a variation of "log cabin"...

"ducks around the pond"...

and "spider's web"...

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Today's challenge color at Cinderberry Stitches is chocolate. Hmmm... I love neutrals but I don't create with them much. I do have some gorgeous vintage textiles to display, however, along with a sampler made by my great great great something or other in 1819. Sewing is definitely in my blood!

More barkcloth:

More "bark"cloth:

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Blue

Thank you to Natalie at Cinderberry Stitches for mentioning my participation in this challenge! This is fun - Nikko Blue Hydrangeas are my inspiration today...