Sunday, June 12, 2016




  LOOK WHAT I FOUND
  I am sure you have seen all of the fun coloring books that have been for sale in the recent months. They have been popping up everywhere. While they look interesting, they use to have absolutely no appeal to me. I do not like to color- never have.
  When I was young (yeah- they had coloring books back then, smartasses) my mother bought me a huge coloring book. It was called The Night Before Christmas, and the pages were probably 24 x 36. I think I might have colored in it twice. I do not know what my aversion is to coloring- I am sure it has to so with some childhood trauma but I haven’t quite figured out what that was.
  A few years back Crabapple Hill Studio came out with a pattern called A Gardener’s Alphabet. I loved it. However, there was coloring involved- and a lot of it. Thank goodness for good friends that just so happen to love to color. Lexie actually volunteered to color all of the letters for me.   I have already shared some of the ones I embroidered- and no they aren’t all don’t yet either. Don’t judge me.

Gardener's Alphabet

  Then, the same darn company came out with some new patterns involving witches- and OMG are they awesome! Who will I con get to color the freakin’ things for me? Rachel, the very sweet daughter of my friend Terry came to the rescue. All I had to do was give her my fabric and she is tracing and coloring away as the patterns come out. How sweet is that? Have I started to embroider these yet? Hell no- and again, you best not be judging my ass.


The Mystery of the Salem Witches Quilt Guild #1


The Mystery of the Salem Witches Quilt Guild #2

   I was at a quilt show a while back with my peeps. I spotted a skull coloring book and thought “how cool- too bad I don’t color”. Then my friend Terry pointed out that I can use the pages for embroidery designs- OMG! The heavens even opened up and a light shined down! It was really probably the lights flickering telling us the quilt show was over and to get the hell out- but lets go with the heavens-it's a better story. A whole new world opened up for me. Of course I bought the book- and I have I used it yet? NOOOO- but let’s not go there. Remember- no judging allowed!
Skull Coloring Book

  Then, Lo and Behold- the mother-load of all coloring books came out. SWEAR WORDS!  They published it like it was meant for me! Of course I bought it, thinking a few of my friends needed an embroidery with some of these words on it- LOL. I love the fact that the cuss words have little kittens and dogs and flowers and rainbows all around the words. That cracks me up. I found it on Amazon.com- the web site that has everything.

The Mother of All Coloring Books
  So, now I am looking at all of those coloring books in a different light- can I use them for hand embroidery patterns? If so, which of my other friends can I con into coloring for me? My poor friends.
   Have a great rest of your day, my friends! I better go get some hand work done-