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.
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| 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.
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| The Mystery of the Salem Witches Quilt Guild #1 |
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| 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!
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| 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.
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| 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-
