What better way to spend rainy afternoons than playing with fabric?
We had a lot of rain last week, so I was inside the house more than usual in the summertime.
After weeks and months of working on big projects with other peoples’ styles and color choices in mind, I took a break to play.
I pulled out some pieces I had overdyed in walnut or indigo and combined them with others lying around.
Bits of vintage fabric in browns and blues, some fun improvisational embroidery, and I had a little pillow. I used simple straight stitches, seed stitches, and a few fly stitches to embellish the pieces in the log cabin block.
A quick little project is always rewarding and the stitching is soul soothing. I love my little chairs – now they all need pillows. I’ve assembled some smaller blocks for pincushions, too.
Note: Since this post was published, I’ve been asked about the quilt in the background. Here is a photo of the full quilt. And an earlier blog post here described its construction. This earlier post was when I only posted one photo per blog – but more on this is coming soon.