Not Much To Show...

Tiny Progress.... Or The Fabric of Life...

There really is not much to show you this week, Dear Readers, because it was the first weekend of Garden Season, and I needed to get outside and clean last year's dead leaves off the flower beds in my RL Garden! But that doesn't mean there is Nothing to show... because I did manage to work on a couple of Tiny things! The first is the petitpoint cushion in the Tree Of Life pattern from Janet Granger. I know, you are saying I showed you that last week... but that was the one made from her kit! As with the first cushion, there were leftover threads, and I decided to make another one using the 28 count canvas I had, which does make a slightly smaller cushion. You can see it in the photo above, nearly finished... and nearly at the point where I RAN OUT of the thread supplied with the kit for the background! We All know how Impossible it is to match the color of different batches of thread, even when we know the brand and the name of the color... neither of which I knew! But I decided to dig in my embroidery basket and see if I could come up with something close... and then I would "explain" the color change with a story about an Old Pillow that had tea spilled or some such tale! I found a skein of ivory floss.... but the skein no longer had it's color and number label, (I have had these embroidery threads for at least thirty five years!!!) but it looked to be a close match with the ivory supplied with Janet's kit... so I finished the stitching.....

And I don't know about you, Dear Readers, 

but I CANNOT tell where the new thread begins!!!

Can you imagine how unlikely it seems 

that I would have the Perfect threads for so many years?

So this is the second in the Tree Of Life cushions... 

all I need to do now is the backing and stuffing.

I do Love this pattern!

And because I am now having so much fun with the needlepoint kits, 

I needed to start another one right away!

Fortunately, I had another of Janet Granger's kits ready to sew....

This is a "sampler" done on 32 count canvas with a single strand of floss,

 so it is another step smaller than the cushions, 

even the 28 count ones I made.

(I used my magnifying glass!)

It is relatively quick to stitch, and as with real "samplers" 

the background is not stitched.

(And I only made one notable mistake!)

It is designed to be an "antique" with the stitching date of 1806.

I think it is quite charming,

 and like many things in the mini world,

 I have Always wanted to make one!

The kit even comes with a frame... 

I will have to show you when I get that step done!

I have a few more of Janet's kits ready to sew, 

I have bought some of her smaller count projects....

 I will be sure to show you as I get them done. 

I am now a confirmed petit-point addict.... 

when I finish one project, 

I need to start the next one right away!

(Even if it means running out of the right threads 

or using a different count fabric!)

And the last Tiny thing I worked on a Tiny bit, Dear Readers, 

was the settee for the Tiny Room-box!

I had already made the seat part last week....

But I have not been able to find the right fabric to use as upholstery!

Yes, I know you can barely see the pattern in this light.....

And then I thought I should add the legs now, 

even though they would be delicate 

and might make it harder to add the fabric later....

Just the tips of toothpicks, 3/32nds of an inch long.... 

but I think they are too tall and will need to be trimmed.

And with the legs painted too....

Isn't it Adorable?

But I am still not settled on the fabric to use...

This is the same fabric as the carpet in the roombox...

And I think it makes the seat disappear when it is put in the roombox.

Which defeats the point entirely!

So I have not decided whether to use it of not.....

I still might change one or both of the fabrics....

And because it is so Tiny, and so Incomplete....

I didn't take any pictures of it IN the roombox to show you!

Just this picture.

None of these belong together...

And they come from such diverse sources....

Old Threads and new.... 

Fabric from my former mother-in-law....

Kits from overseas and cardboard from work....

Coffee stirrers and toothpicks....

Somehow, Dear Readers, 

These Tiny Things become the Fabric of My Life!