Green, green grass of home...

I seem to have a lot of green in this bag. There were a few long strips so I started piecing and cutting and have ended up with this.

At this point I have not decided whether to add lots of straight line stitching and do something like this or this, or whether to try and use up those scraps a bit quicker by throwing a load of applique at it :)

There were lots of smaller bits left over and so I have pulled out the embellisher again and added them to a scrap of wadding.

This will be kept, cut up and added to some future pieces.
Both remind me of a patchwork of fields, hence the title, which might give me some direction in what I do next.
Stay tuned!

Looking at these photos I see the difference in the greens. The first were taken in rare sunshine.

The last in the ever present rain!

a heart revealed

Yes, the scrim was in the bag. How lucky was that!
Have a good weekend.

a heart's progress

Any project like this is going to need a lot of stitching to keep all those pieces in place.

Beads help to cover any spots not covered up properly.

The beads were not in the scrap bag admittedly, but they were part of a bracelet that broke a few years ago. I knew they would come in useful someday:)

A Repeat.

The red squares this piece were cut from a an old silk shirt for a different project. Lots of those silk bits ended up in the bag.

Using the silk scraps, along with some other scraps of red I decided to put together another one of these.

Fiddly to do....Uh Yeah! ...but it will hopefully be worthwhile :)

Ta Dah!

Finished (sort of) journal.

The pages have not been stitched in yet because I am still working on them.

Tied up with the strip made earlier here.
(There are still scraps in that bag, so stay tuned!)

the hitch...and the solution!

I left you with a hitch...
The nature of the background means that the stitching on this needs to be quite intensive.
So now I have to stich in and out of those shapes!

First some big pebbling

I normally stitch my backgrounds before adding other elements, but got carried away with the freezer paper idea that I just ploughed on ahead without thinking things through.

Then some smaller ones (now you see it)

It is fiddly getting in and out of these motifs and inevitably some stray stitches will show up on the black.
 

(Now you don't) With the help of some black felt pen!

Of course all this could have been avoided if I had done the background stitching FIRST!!!

I will leave you with a view of the back/inside (sorry this is a non scrap bag piece.)

Stay tuned to see the finished article.

Trying something new.

I have had these doodles hanging about for quite a while. Time to put them to use.

I use freezer paper templates with paint and wondered about applying the same priciple for adding a stitched motif.

I could have stitched the motif I choose by eye, but would not have been able to keep any uniformity.
Seems to work!

I am feeling quite pleased with myself at this point....but I have spotted a hitch...