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August 16, 2021
Slow Stitching Sunday ~ Fall Leaves Time of Year from Life in the Scrapatch


Every year at this time, we add some fall mums to our garden 

and I pull out this quilt and do some very slow stitching.


Here is this quilt on August 15, 2020

This is the quilt before I started the embroidered leaves:


There are 64 background squares in this Schnibbles quilt top
completed Here in August, 2012. 
I have been slowly embroidering free form leaves since then.
I add a few more embroidered leaves every year.

Linking up again this year with 




One year I will be finished.


Perhaps this will be the ...

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August 16, 2020
Embroidered Autumn Leaves ~ My Method from Life in the Scrapatch


One more free form embroidered leaf on my  


The weather has turned a bit cooler and I have been sitting and stitching 
on our covered deck in the backyard.


The oaks have been dropping their leaves early and green this year.
I gathered some to inspire my free form stitching.

It has been so very dry and hot this summer that even these big trees
cannot get enough water to support their big canopies.
It is concerning when the deepest rooted trees in our area 
cannot find enough water deep in the ground 
and have to shed ...

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