WOW or WIP’s 15th August

When looking for some thing last Wednesday I came  across a pile of WIP’s   I kept this one out below and have started to sashiko  quilt it finally.  It’s call Mother’s  in war?    It’s all ways the women who suffer so much in a War, regardless of who is winning or loosing?   All the dark maron fabric is from a very very fine wool Kimono fabric about 80 plus years old it has been constantly darned with patches,  an old Japanese lady told me that she sold all her Kimono’s except this one during and after the war to buy rice to feed her children, her husband had died and she had to sell the kimono’s for that rice.  The kimono was also dyed many many times to make it so dark people would not see the darns or patches???   When she showed it to me I was so so sad and I just loved the colour so much, it’s not deep blue but a deep maron blue as it was dyed over a colour not a white fabric?  She could see how much I loved it for the story, the patches, and darns and gifted it to me .  I was determined to use it patches darns and holes in a quilt, then I found the beautiful blue fine wool kimono and Mothers in War was born and just grew?

This is a quilt for me to sleep under.  I loved making it, I’m loving quilting it and I will love it on the double bed?

InnSashiko quilting using DMC 5 threads , plus 3 threads from a DMC normal embroidery thread on the large flowers.  Thread is a very deep maron colour and shows up beautifully.

Close up

My first triangle all most completed.  It’s taking me 5 nights 8pm till 12pm to quilt one triangle.

Two triangles done 6 to go LOL.

Working now on a corner of the blue wool kimono, it’s not showing up like on the plain colour but it will be nice.

Sashiko stitches are a tiny bit bigger here than on the maroon?

This Lo vely  old lace I’ve just washed and pressed is about 50 years old  and machine made, will use it on some of my heirloom blocks.

Close  up of the lace, it is about 4 inch’s deep?

Brushing down an old old cottage chair of Sandra’s. Every year more paints peel off, their must be at least 7 different layers LOL.

Sandra’s cottage chair, have rubbed it back now it needs a good clean with bleach after the long wet we have had.

Seat is carved to fit around your thighs and it’s an extremely strong chair for sitting in, Not flimsy like many chairs today?

This is a wooden chair that came from the farm in NZ I think, Rods constantly reglueing that back in???   It’s Rods every thing chair but a chairLOL.

Thanks for dropping in.  May be absent for a while, having a knee replacement on Tuesday, in hospital for 10 days then 3 to 4 months recovery?  So may not have that much to blog about LOL.

Off to link with Esther on her WOW or WIP’s.

Cheers Glenda