Crafts and more crafts! Finishing touches

Crafty today (or just tired of the rain and grief)

The green guys are a pair of dragon slippers we found at a thrift store - seams falling open, heads dragging.  I inserted small dowels in the necks, added more stuffing, sewed most of the seams and now she has happy dragons

The flat mauve piece is a panel that Mom quilted that was left over from the quilt we finished that she had started.  We are going to hang it as an art piece.

the pillow is two panels that were left over

the beadwork/wood/art piece is the Hebrew aleph-bet done in loomed beadwork, mounted on small wooden squares (or rectangles) that were then mounted on dowels of varying heights.  Mounted on a thin piece of plywood, edging applied, wire and eyelets - hang piece

Next I'm going to work on netting for my bed - with all the rain the bugs are insane this year!  I'm also researching for a new novel I've got the basic plot for in my head - it's such JOY to research Nazis and WWII on a rainy day - NOT

Three Generations of Women

We are Jackie and Barbara, daughters of Kathlene S. Jones and granddaughters of Maude Carr.  In the mid 1980s our Mom’s bestfriend, Marie asked if Mom and Grandma would make her a quilt.  Our Grandma was a renowned quilt maker, all hand done, no machine stitching anywhere.  She had quilts that traveled to new owners from Germany to Alaska. 

Grandma wasn’t up to much quilting at that point but Mom said she would do it in large squares. Grandma helped pick out the material and pattern and did some of the hand sewing, the majority of the quilting was done by our mother. 

A miscalculation stumped Mom and she put the pieces away for years. After her death 1 Dec 2012 my sister and I found the squares and Marie told us the story behind it and we promised to finish it. Marie was overjoyed, it is a quilt of three generations (she considered our Grandma as her adopted mother).  Unfortunately, we lost Marie three days later but we have finished the quilt on 15 June 2013.  A quilt made in love by three generations that has a few teardrops tucked into the material.

This is honor of Maude Carr, Kathlene Jones and Marie Melendez

Wristband for Tim

This is a wristband worked up for a dear friend from highschool.  He's part of a Christian motorcycle club.

New Items

We have new items posted at Zibbet

http://www.zibbet.com/kathyslegacy

For Sale

http://www.zibbet.com/kathyslegacy

We have a couple of items and will be adding more

Bluebirds and more

Mom began embroider on six panels meant to be put together for a baby blanket.  She began the first one and didn't finish.  I finished it yesterday.  We're going to offer them individually or someone can buy the set and put together the blanket if they're willing to wait for me to finish the other five.

This is a wristband with a Celtic knotwork pattern burned into the leather

Why is this sideways? - it is a wooden cross with silver, gold, bronze and pewter seed beads inlaid

Click on the photo of this one, guys.  it's hard to tell the details. This is the Hebrew alphabet - the Aleph-Bet, in beadwork mounted on balsa wood and then mounted an varying lengths of dowel to put each on at different heights in random order. The colors were chosen at random with what beads I had in my boxes last year inbetween renovating the house in my exhaustion.  

This is a one of a kind piece. 

I'll post more pieces that we've worked on tomorrow

Embroidery

These are some examples of my embroidery work (the knotwork, Star of David and Jerusalem shield piece needs ironing - sorry about that).

The Alice Cooper patch is one I did when I couldn't find a backpatch.

These are hand embroidered

Woodburned Projects

A piece I did yesterday for sale

A Celtic knotwork of dogs I did a year or so ago

Don't know why this one ended up below the Celtic knotwork. Same piece as above.

These are hand done

Beadwork

These are letters of the Hebrew alphabet.  I'm going to attach these to a base at varying heights for a 3D effect.

This is a hatband/arm piece for a friend

John 3:16 beadwork

This is a piece I've done for a friend. This is still on the loom, the loose ends of thread and the ends are finished off and the weft lines can be tucked behind the bead-work when he sews it onto a jacket or leather for a hatband.

Business card

We'll include the web address of our site on the front with a stamp once we work up the website.

Current Quilt

This is the quilt that Mom was working on.  Jackie and I will finish it.  It's called a Tumbler quilt

Some samples of artwork

Some acrylic paint and black ink works I've done on drums

This one took 3rd place in a national art contest for veterans through the VA. 

Shawl Vests

Jackie made myself and Mom crocheted long vests for Christmas.  Mom's is a "coat of many colors" - mine is red and black (despite the pictures looking orange and black - it is red)

Homemade Laptop Case

Jackie took material we found in Mom's tubs of material and made a case for her netbook.  It has a main compartment and, under the flap, slots for her jump drives and pockets for her mouse and other items.

we're going to experiment with different materials and designs