Hand Cutting

On my desk today.  Cutting lots and lots of little circles for pendants and rings.

My Creative Space - Going Yoyo

There is some slow progress happening on my kimono fabric yoyo quilt.  I haven't dared calculate just how many I'm going to have to make, but for now, I'm enjoying the moments I get to sit down and hand stitch the little puffs.

As the collection grew, it came to me that as I plan it to eventually cover our queen size bed, I was going to need a queen size bed cover sized space to keep them in.  For now, they all live in my great-grandma's hat box.

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Promise Not To Look Too Closely?

Promise not to comment that my stitching could be neater?

Then I'll show you a little something I started working on today...

... hopefully I'll have it worked on further in the next few days....

This is... my Work In Progress

Mmm... I have a little trouble with that title. It implies that I should have one and only one WIP. I would feel so less guilty if the title was "This is... one of my Works in Progress".

Currently, one of my biggest WIP is this

Please excuse the roughness of the Title Page. It's just a rough concept mock-up at this stage.

The book is coming along in concept, design and content. I have my next trip to Tokyo in a couple of weeks.

On that topic, I had a friend help me with some translation the other night. It's funny, in Japanese, they wouldn't actually use the phrase "to buy fabric." Of course you directly translate it and people would understand what you are talking about, but apparently Japanese just don't say it. In this country full of gorgeous fabrics, I found that quite surprising.

Thank you to Debbie Hill for this week's theme to Angela, the fabulous hostess of This is...