Nothing Got Done....

 

 But Cushions.... And Slippers...

I Can hardly believe it, Dear Readers, but I had a visit with my Sister for the first time in over a year! We have both been vaccinated now, and she was visiting her grandchildren who only live a couple of hours from here, so I borrowed her for a weekend overnight visit! Needless to say no minis got "worked on" but a whole lot of visiting happened and a fair amount of reviewing the mini worlds! And since Birgit has received her little cushions, I can show you the two I kept. Above is the whole project just finished with the stitching. I wanted to use as much of the silk gauze as I could manage, so I tucked the cushions into the corners, and filled the gaps with tiny slippers.  I have shown you one of the pairs of slippers already, and now I have also started to assemble another pair.

Here you can see one of them part way done. 

The lining has been added and the heel stitched together. 

Now the sole gets sewn on.

The sole is cut from an artificial suede cloth

 which you can see there in the bottom corner. 

(These are upholstery fabric samples I was given years ago.)

You will have to wait to see the pair....

They are not all finished.

But I had assembled the cushions a week or two ago....

Here is one of them with the pom-pom trim attached

 but the cushion not stuffed yet.

And the other one, before the pom-pom edging is attached.

I might have shown pictures of stitching this one a while ago.

Here they are both finished.

Here it is in The Cloud Palace...

And testing the look in Sally May's living room chair....

(I don't know where these belong yet!)

So you see, Dear Readers,

 there really is nothing new to show...

But partly finished Slippers

 and Pom-pom trimmed Cushions.

Snowdrops....

 

 And Slippers....

The Snowdrops are finished blooming in my RL Garden, Dear Readers, but they are in full bloom where I work in the Hills of Vermont. And some of you might recall that when I made the mini snowdrops for The Folly garden, under the lilac bush, I was concerned that they turned out a tiny bit too big for perfect 1:12 scale. You can see them in the gloomy morning light in the picture above. And I have a note beside my computer that has been there for a long time that says "Measure snowdrops" on it. This would be so I could prove for once and all what scale my mini snowdrops turned out to be! I thought I had made a measured drawing somewhere... but could only find the one I did for the little Squill blossoms. But the snowdrops have to be in bloom to measure them! 

Last week they were blooming in my garden,

 but I neglected to measure them!

This morning I remembered at the last minute on my way to work....

But the blossoms were all spent...

These stems were the best of the remaining blossoms.

They are not five inches tall... 

you will have to believe me because I did not go get a ruler!

Meanwhile, the blossoms at work are Huge by comparison!

Of course, it is difficult to get a sense of scale from a photo...

You can see by my hand that they are much larger

 than the little ones in my Home garden!

But I needed proof... so I plucked a stem....

And brought it up to my desk where I could measure it....

Nine and 1/2 inches long!

 

And the blossom alone is 1 and 1/2 inches long!

These are Huge snowdrops!

Here it is in a bud vase....

no shrinking violet this blossom!

I think I can safely say that my mini snowdrops

 are  in perfect 1:12 scale!

And what about the slippers I mentioned?

Well, you might recall that I was trying to use all the stitching space

 in the corners of the Christmas Tree Skirt project.

And when I had filled all the corners with "cushions"

 there was still a bit of space along the sides

 that I thought might just work for mini slippers.

I didn't have a pattern, so I made one up...

 

I stitched four pairs of slippers around the edges...

 each pair a little different from the others.

And then because I didn't know what I was doing,

 I made up one whole slipper without taking any pictures of the process!

I think it turned out okay!

I took pictures of the second one...

 but they are pretty boring.

I lined each slipper with a silk charmeuse cloth 

which is very fine and flexible.

I stitched the whole thing, not using glue

 except for binding the edge of the petitpoint before I cut the cloth.

 

The soles are made from synthetic suede cloth.... 

small samples that I was given with a variety of colors.

 

I think they turned out really well

 considering that I didn't know what I was doing!

And that's all I have to show, Dear Readers,

 my weekend having been spent in the RL Garden,

Huge snowdrops and Tiny slippers!