CQJP 2012 , CQJP 2013 and More Playing

Our satellite equipment broke down, and it took a couple of days for the serviceman to arrive to repair the problems. Add that to a hydro outage from the recent wind/rain storms, and I've been off the internet for several days. It's good to be connected again!

We had mild temperatures for 2 days, and a layer of water formed over the lake ice......you might be able to see the ripples in the foreground

Yesterday there was some colour in the sky

I liked the reflections on the ice. It's solid again as we've plunged back into the winter freeze

CQJP 2012 has the lace border sewn and I've begun adding stitched and beaded snowflakes, but they don't show up very well. Even the tatted blue one just looks like a little blob....So I shall have to make them bigger and bolder so they can be seen.......like the cut glass and tatted one in the lower left of center

here it is.......




   Once all the snowflakes have been added, I'll sew the lace border to the dark green fleece

CQJP 2013 January block has a seam treatment of  knotted fly stitch (last week's TAST) and I added 'pearl' beads

V's beads and more french knots

tatted JK flowers and curly stem

tea-stained lace with a cast-on stitch border

chain stitching

and the January block is finished!

I started the February block with a few cast-on stitch roses in a variegated rayon thread.......

Debra (of Tuesday Stitchers) sent me a pile of doilies (thanks again, Debra!)

this one is very pretty, though it has a hole, and is stained in a few places


I thought I might use it for the center of my CQJP 2013 wall hanging

I'd use this beautiful machine embroidered rose picture ( hey, thanks Debra!) that Debra included with the doilies to cover the doily hole and stains

I finished the last three blocks


pretty rose fabric (thanks Debra!)

and another pretty rose fabric (thanks Debra!)



















This third rose fabric came from my stash



hmmm, lots of roses


that's because my CQJP 2013 wall hanging will be called Lace and Roses!

                              


 More roses were added to the February block with some pale green leaves, some of which are created with the woven picot stitch for a 3-D effect

I've begun a bit of other seam work, and plan to add more to both. Here's how my February block looks now.



















a trip to the second hand shop in town yielded this wonderful book for creating lace!

I've been creating some more cards

This was a painted background over which I added a layer of lace, then painted through with a second colour






it was a little boring, so I added some more paint .......

zowie!

this will make a fab background

I used a technique from Creative JumpStart 2013 to create this layered paint effect

then I used a some sequin waste as a stencil........
does it look like a fish to you?


BIL likes to fish, so it may just become a Birthday card for him......

gesso and acrylic liquid paints

a spritz of water  .............and.......Fun!


I sure hope you're having fun this weekend.

oh, yeah, Happy Groundhog Day! and
Happy February!
Wishing everyone lots of wonderful hearts this month.

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs from Suz