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July 5, 2021
French knots and buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

French knots and buttons

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June 9, 2021
Snippet Exchange from Quilting & Learning

Exchanging Snippets
In mid-February I exchanged the background of my snippet with Dorothy, another member of the Out of the Box (OOTB) Fibre textile group. We had until May 17th to finish embellishing our partner's snippet background and exchange them for the final reveal during our monthly virtual meeting.

Snippet background

A snippet is a small piece of something. You've probably heard of a snippet of music or video. If you Google "snippet roll" you will find that they are generally narrow lengths of embellished fabric that are often rolled around a piece of wood, such as a ...

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June 8, 2021
embroidery on silk dupion [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

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embroidery on silk dupion

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May 4, 2021
silk, a pocket, embroidery [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

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silk, a pocket, embroidery

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A pocket from sewing circle. from Karen Ann Ruane

hand embroidery on silk

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April 20, 2021
a pocket for buttons and 119 bullion knots from Karen Ann Ruane

an embroidered pocket for embroidered buttons

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April 11, 2021
buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

embroidered buttons

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March 29, 2021
front and back covers from Karen Ann Ruane

a hand embroidered needlecase in progress

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March 13, 2021
hand embroidered buttons [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

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hand embroidered buttons

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more buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

embroidered buttons

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March 11, 2021
hand embroidered buttons [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

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hand embroidered buttons

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buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

hand embroidered buttons

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February 23, 2021
kerchief girl ⋈ bow tie laptop case from Charm About You


It's great being asked to create a project when it's something you actually need! I've had my current laptop for a while but didn't have a case for it. My youngest has adopted my previous laptop, since all the online schooling started it made sense for her to use it. She has adopted my last homemade case to go with it. Clearly we don't need them for travel but it's nice to put devices away at the end of the day and keep them safe from dust and spills and the like. 


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February 6, 2021
hand made buttons and embroidery on silk [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

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hand made buttons and embroidery on silk

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embroidered silk and hand made buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

embroidered silk and hand made buttons

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February 1, 2021
buttons and suffolk puffs [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

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buttons and suffolk puffs

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adornments from Karen Ann Ruane

hand embroidered adornments

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January 29, 2021
hand embroidered buttons [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

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hand embroidered buttons

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buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

hand made buttons

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January 14, 2021
Project Quilting 2021 - Grey and Yellow from Quilting & Learning

I hope that 2021 has been good to you so far. I've been working away at this year's first challenge of Project Quilting: Illuminating (yellow) + Ultimate Gray. These are the Pantone colours of the year for 2021. I guess just having grey as the colour of the year could have been dull, so these are lovely colours together.


Project Quilting Challenge 12-1


I decided to keep it simple. As you may have read in my last post, my word of the year is calm. I took the opportunity to make myself of reminder of my word and intention ...

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