Mo'a Romig-Boyles

Saturn's Moons

I named my little wall hanging Saturn's Moons.  If you look closely you can see seven moons, in this piece.

Some are mended and others are not. Two are half moons.  One has a heart...

...and one that is velvet that you saw here. Then there is an eye, that has nothing to do with moons...it just appeared, in a space that seemed to be made for it.

Here is the whole piece.  Can you see the seventh moon?  Hint: it is a half moon.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend.

Remember to use Sun Block and...

...to smell the flowers.

Flowers in order of appearance:  Peony and Blue Flag Iris in my Mother's garden. Mountain Laurel appearing with hundreds of others in my garden.

A Work In Progress

How time flies. I cannot believe that it has almost three weeks since I posted here. I must mend my ways.

I am working on a piece that will be a wall hanging. This is the first part of it.  The fabric is indigo dyed flannel and a velvet moon dyed by Glennis of Shibori Girl. I meant for the lines to be straight on this piece however, as I was working on it the flannel stretched and distorted. I considered that an opportunity and worked with the lines. For my taste I think it worked out better this way, as there were already wavy lines in the design.

I free handed the design using a split stitch that I learned in one of Jude's classes.

See you soon...I promise.

Color

As much as I like white in my world, I also like color.

I took a class with Jude Hill of Spirit Cloth called Patchwork Beasts.  In that class I did several Beast things including this butterfly that is a Jude Hill design.  She started out captured like this.

Somehow she did not seem comfortable to me, so I gave her more space by cutting away the orange flower fabric.  Here she is...having also put on her blue ballerina shoes. I used the flower fabric as a frame around her.

The flower pattern reminds me of my new passion...Hellebores.  We have two in our garden, they are so satisfying. They started blooming in the beginning of March.

I love their center...somehow there seem to be quite a variety of centesr on one plant.

The image below is of the other Hellebore in our garden.

Picasa has some new features that I am having fun with...truthfully I am too lazy to do much in Photoshop...that is why I am loving the new features in Picasa.

Here are a few examples of what I have been playing with.

...and then I played around with some of the photos from our Easter table.

An Egg.

Miss Bunny.

Enough of this fun...now it is time to go back to sewing.

 

 

White Cloth

I have a lot of cloth waiting to become curtains, pillows or a quilt. Ninety eight percent of all the cloth I own is white.

That is a good thing because I love white flowers and white cloth.  I came by this cloth through inheritance.  My husband's mother, grandmother and aunt were all sewers and loved to embroider cloth. They embroidered pillowcases, tablecloths and hand towels. After my mother-in-law passed away thirty yeas ago I packed up all these pieces and only a year ago they all came together when a friend of mine helped me redesign my studio.

There were hundreds of pieces...I was astounded when they all came together, I had no idea how much I had stored away in boxes.

One day my mother said to me..."I have a few of your grandmother Romig's white hand towels, you can have them to use in your project" I nearly fell of my chair, when she brought them down from the cedar chest in her bedroom.  There in her arms she had forty five white hand towels, many of them beautifully embroidered.

I am cutting up many of these pieces, resewing them into nine patch pieces, that will eventually become a queen sized quilt.  I am slowly working on it and enjoying every minute.  I know who did most of the pieces by the initials R, T, D, H and B. As I sew I think of the women that made and used these cloths. Now I am using them, albeit in a very different way...I feel it honors their memory.