tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85473593574452010232024-03-13T13:40:18.670-05:00FABRIC THERAPYFABRIC THERAPY - some people take pills to keep them sane...I take 100% cotton.Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.comBlogger581125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-6368294680753796312021-05-16T19:22:00.004-05:002022-03-07T21:13:10.660-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Block 44 and ROW 5<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioGDUe9xK2TzyBH1poZE3qNsZ-FgRIvVOCSoHKHypMZz1xO_9T_XTWYL__aNz8iYqx8m8sGVaL7qPPv8uIwlp6OIMV7d-JMlLi1Eu2A-n4MQ6Eek03DSx3zxZWE0cLBf2wuT6rbqZcXx4/s685/Mary+21.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="531" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioGDUe9xK2TzyBH1poZE3qNsZ-FgRIvVOCSoHKHypMZz1xO_9T_XTWYL__aNz8iYqx8m8sGVaL7qPPv8uIwlp6OIMV7d-JMlLi1Eu2A-n4MQ6Eek03DSx3zxZWE0cLBf2wuT6rbqZcXx4/w310-h400/Mary+21.JPG" width="310" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary Queen of Scots' life is getting rather complicated following her return from France to England. As the now seated Queen of Scotland, she was young, powerful, and beautiful with a determined strength and vigor. She was certainly strong and smart enough to be Queen. Her next husband would not officially be a Scottish King, but a King consort.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Growing up in the French Court, she was encouraged by her de Guise Uncles and King Henry II (the father of her betrothed Dauphin Francis II) to join discussions. She had the freedom to express her own opinions, even in political matters. Her exposure to this rare, female opportunity gave Mary the knowledge and confidence to go home and assume her thrown. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVht3m59nyLgddJgwbcPmB5ygRcj6mbuNObOGi0LtMKxY98J1Q4WfCjBgwbnhPj1F0MTmnpxvKT-xLzUrRmGEA7WpGpBS0ZOsoo8X303jYITTfVKCwSgJsZ4F0j-QBU9IVLmV99QUz_0/s296/Mary+62.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVht3m59nyLgddJgwbcPmB5ygRcj6mbuNObOGi0LtMKxY98J1Q4WfCjBgwbnhPj1F0MTmnpxvKT-xLzUrRmGEA7WpGpBS0ZOsoo8X303jYITTfVKCwSgJsZ4F0j-QBU9IVLmV99QUz_0/s0/Mary+62.JPG" /></span></a></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Current, and future, cast of characters (from left to right):</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Rizzio, Mary's secretary and closest confidant</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Everyone had an idea of who Mary's second husband should be. Her advisors were, of course, thinking only of politics and Scotland's allies/enemies list. England and Queen Elizabeth had their own ideas and even had men "planted" into Mary's inner circle, acting as influencers and providing intelligence. Elizabeth was still concerned about Mary's "Stuart legitimacy" claim to the British throne and was intimidated by her strength and popularity.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course, the de Guise side of Mary's family had matrimonial plans for her as well. Mary's mother, Marie de Guise of France, had come to Scotland to act as Reagent "place keeper" for Mary. After all, she was barely born when the death of her father had left her the throne. Mother Marie had powerful brothers in the French court which kept France's interests at the forefront. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">France, as a fellow Catholic country, was a strong ally with Scotland. They needed each other's support against England, now Protestant following Henry VIII's "divorce national conversion." England wanted to stamp out Catholicism in the region.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyty3qjjzlEadliOQXUgr1EFZxNu88IGdMw9oZrWJY2aVBh920s9Yr1teUjfzQiMrNDfmdDUD5dEWxhMWVKtAg925irZnoKTkTLYN8LEHZLAB0DUvYaklZb2sKQ4SqnEBPIKY78CGaIVU/s640/33cb26894181f4d8da0286b798d96f7d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="447" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyty3qjjzlEadliOQXUgr1EFZxNu88IGdMw9oZrWJY2aVBh920s9Yr1teUjfzQiMrNDfmdDUD5dEWxhMWVKtAg925irZnoKTkTLYN8LEHZLAB0DUvYaklZb2sKQ4SqnEBPIKY78CGaIVU/s320/33cb26894181f4d8da0286b798d96f7d.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Edenborough was fairly strongly Catholic, but outlying Scottish Clans sort of did their own thing. They basically wanted to be left alone, not wanting to work together against the English. The clans were too busy stealing and fighting with each other.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">There were skirmishes near the border with England. Mary would ride out with her soldiers in battles. It is said that Mary was not totally opposed to Protestantism, she mainly wanted to be able to be a strong, practicing Catholic herself.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, there was her older half-brother...he had gained some support for being the rightful King before Mary returned home to Scotland. He was trying to undercut her authority and had his own band of soldiers.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkLQZUQhVNABTGAC1WwSQ1LHOAHYex0T4H_9sv6-_W4ubI6I46vLVWq18gFqiGY0gOvWlAXqCSIKueCrPZDSLFr4ZmTARf0uusFnIkkzIXscEZe7J2G8Z6PKhMyQ9UAq9Lu3pMEVyzs0/s340/Mary+43.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkLQZUQhVNABTGAC1WwSQ1LHOAHYex0T4H_9sv6-_W4ubI6I46vLVWq18gFqiGY0gOvWlAXqCSIKueCrPZDSLFr4ZmTARf0uusFnIkkzIXscEZe7J2G8Z6PKhMyQ9UAq9Lu3pMEVyzs0/s320/Mary+43.JPG" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It is said that the King never even saw his daughter Mary as he was near death and she was born hours after he died. Then, there was Mary's right to the thrown...she was the king's legitimate heir. Her older brother was only a half brother, which was also a thorny situation.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But what about love? Mary was pushed and pulled and finally ended up marrying Lord Darnley. It is thought that Darnley was pushed into the marriage merry-go-round by Queen Elizabeth and her advisers. </span></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ROW FIVE </b>is done and on the design wall. My bedroom design wall is smaller than the one in the basement...I've about reached its limit.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbIvP8M54ukmNE4ZBn26CYlIecGXajcicrVtgwK2qpiCCeJCvf5VGR71Mn-XTSDJkeKituhEyIlpMI0ILzrtXsv9-CihfG_p5CWJjG5nT8LUbNyU6ifcF70-y43cA-vEVyiyeFjPZFRw/s2048/QM+-+5+rows+horizontal-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1987" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbIvP8M54ukmNE4ZBn26CYlIecGXajcicrVtgwK2qpiCCeJCvf5VGR71Mn-XTSDJkeKituhEyIlpMI0ILzrtXsv9-CihfG_p5CWJjG5nT8LUbNyU6ifcF70-y43cA-vEVyiyeFjPZFRw/s320/QM+-+5+rows+horizontal-w.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Queen Pineapple</b> was blogged on 01/04/21.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Morella Cherry</b> was blogged on 01/04/21.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Spring Starflower</b> was blogged on 01/04/21.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Damson Plum</b> was blogged on 12/08/18.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Bearss Lime</b> was blogged on 10/10/20.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Marguerite Daisy</b> was blogged on 03/22/20.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Worchester Apple </b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdhmbiF4WZlpg5siSQk4pIBwa661UAAVTQamEo08tnAXTwhWCOstChba-w8eQBbu6C_ZNxTBUCOkYtZDRQct0VPZ16gVOCz20UUdKaPJfRrBsiIUFNYaQivM745xJ3tOJW6T89vpKs3Sk/s2048/%25281%2529+-+WORCHESTER+APPLE-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdhmbiF4WZlpg5siSQk4pIBwa661UAAVTQamEo08tnAXTwhWCOstChba-w8eQBbu6C_ZNxTBUCOkYtZDRQct0VPZ16gVOCz20UUdKaPJfRrBsiIUFNYaQivM745xJ3tOJW6T89vpKs3Sk/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+WORCHESTER+APPLE-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Eight more blocks, then on to the nutty bird border! I am trying to control myself drawing the birds, but they are all based on 16th-17th century art, manuscripts, and embroideries. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm finding it hard not "fixing" the drawings to be less fanciful and more "normal." It's a challenge for me to be faithful to the interpretations of flora and fauna by the artisans and crafters from that time period...I want things a little more anatomically accurate, I guess.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">And the wild colors they used...yikes! Although, I have to admit reproducing mystery flowers and birds in unnatural, unusual colors has been freeing! </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">From the little bit I've read about the lives of that era, an embroidery project using bright silks was probably a big help coping and balancing some of the daily difficulties.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa :o)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span><i>On another thread...</i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>I am still here! I have my second Covid-19 shot this week, but I am in a state where the split between vaxed and not-vaxed is about 50/50. So I am still mostly stuck at home with my post-pneumonia sensitive lungs, heart arrhythmia, etc.</i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>I am so jealous of all of you getting so much done during the shutdown! Being under house-arrest for 12+ months and the whole 2020 year made me feel so helpless. It totally interfered with my creativity, which leaves me depressed and irritated. </i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>I missed my 92-yr-old beloved aunt, siblings, nieces and nephews, quilt guilds, quilt shows, traveling to Michigan to see friends, etc. SO many small businesses closed in the Shoals area...even some major chain restaurants and stores.</i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>Here's to getting out and getting back to normal (and feeling more joyous)!! </i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></div></div></div></div>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-90913994786048165272021-01-04T06:00:00.002-06:002022-03-07T21:12:27.244-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Blocks 41, 42, 43<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrnfczkdffQriW-FkmGxMRIIZUEFxKEMtckU1prGLoGNkhmfP6_9mPft0CKNuTU5ZdphZpLidkJAOXX2BWv7iJXerKyR4YnbmsbDdmCLojuJsk_xdG9SJH7OcU6nlbuUgzOctoMzwIlI/s300/Mary+16.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="196" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrnfczkdffQriW-FkmGxMRIIZUEFxKEMtckU1prGLoGNkhmfP6_9mPft0CKNuTU5ZdphZpLidkJAOXX2BWv7iJXerKyR4YnbmsbDdmCLojuJsk_xdG9SJH7OcU6nlbuUgzOctoMzwIlI/w418-h640/Mary+16.JPG" width="418" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Mary Queen of Scots lived with the French court from the age of five until her marriage at sixteen to the younger Dauphin, Francis II. She learned languages and studied history, literature, and the Masters. In addition, her course Scottish dialect was cleaned up, French became her main language, and she learned riding and refinements such as embroidery.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Growing up in the Royal nursery allowed fun and friendship with other royal children in addition to her betrothed. Marie de Guise, Mary's mother, was from a powerful family in the French court. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The young queen's mom was back in Scotland, ruling as Mary's Reagent. Mary's de Guise uncles were involved in her education and discussions of politics, morality, history of the region, and the ties between France and Scotland.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Queen Pineapple</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBsR1YRkJJ9nX-0ILhCP_SWg9GkbG-3Q_nxWjkd6SrT-P-RN32t_8kYejvpwgHHX7AvzYD1-g77F_JdfXkMUXE1aHJZu0ORoJ13XmhsxfO8ffOsZlpIdWBdhuX4V8e2nsg0Pa93lOjT8/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+QUEEN+PINEAPPLE-w.jpg" width="320" /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Morello Cherry</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKXF_0WBFeeTLQXbKGPN5xD96oJUMsQmspcvGzGDBip-TOYXiL-zIzHCc-kY-66CmZeZXN9g9UIilPftbbuhnkS3Siw59v8BH7fWOeQR6LLyPPtsi7Rmu1w5Q_SHRHXKLqWMr9fqjGgE/s2048/%25281%2529+-+MORELLA+CHERRY-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKXF_0WBFeeTLQXbKGPN5xD96oJUMsQmspcvGzGDBip-TOYXiL-zIzHCc-kY-66CmZeZXN9g9UIilPftbbuhnkS3Siw59v8BH7fWOeQR6LLyPPtsi7Rmu1w5Q_SHRHXKLqWMr9fqjGgE/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+MORELLA+CHERRY-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Spring Starflower</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp7sRfNLOAC14imQhSqbwhngMfcAai7oC2DGYfXRNauBGZIETeMtDHJzpWgpGkoFyXq4NDvmfDYxFIf-i7FjYHrFXS2da-XJjjtVipu4ATncEpMqwg-57ZjJkt9Ja2GuZCfzYwB2Ke2ns/s2048/%25281%2529+-+SPRING+STARFLOWER-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp7sRfNLOAC14imQhSqbwhngMfcAai7oC2DGYfXRNauBGZIETeMtDHJzpWgpGkoFyXq4NDvmfDYxFIf-i7FjYHrFXS2da-XJjjtVipu4ATncEpMqwg-57ZjJkt9Ja2GuZCfzYwB2Ke2ns/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+SPRING+STARFLOWER-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nine more blocks to go! Then it will be all border birds, all the time, with two or three fun elements inserted to keep the birds company.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy, Happy New Year to all!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">🎉</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><br /></div></div>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-5014656356424872992020-12-31T21:50:00.000-06:002020-12-31T21:50:01.204-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 continues - Poop-poop-dee-poop!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyp2mgSvwDVZmB9Oer2CY6kfLvqx7WOUI9RlNoNS4M_dKQog6D7TMrULrdwv15lsFgvrQSTu3JQU8AWnZRI1qL9WUufYDzufMsvZneHX90bTh9epy1ica8DRxpxkiqNsKP1a6SVC5H30o/s360/mary+book+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyp2mgSvwDVZmB9Oer2CY6kfLvqx7WOUI9RlNoNS4M_dKQog6D7TMrULrdwv15lsFgvrQSTu3JQU8AWnZRI1qL9WUufYDzufMsvZneHX90bTh9epy1ica8DRxpxkiqNsKP1a6SVC5H30o/w354-h400/mary+book+1.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's talk about sanitation in the time of Mary Queen of Scots. It's the last night of a crappy 2020, so what could be more appropriate?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>(This subject is mentioned in at least two of the reputable books I am using as Mary Queen of Scots reference material, so I believe the validity of the subject is unreproachable.)</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Castles and great houses, just like the more humble houses of their subjects, had no running water, no indoor plumbing. Buckets of water were hauled to the castle/house for cooking, bathing, laundry, dishwashing, and what general cleaning was attempted. And if you wanted a warm tub bath, kettles had to be heated and hauled.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKBIqposG3iKNCYlHKAMdvCmBB9kD9mzC5fSaCQsZpO0txPBHObCLqft-A-10TIoP1EqnOPNCFKHDY3lvXolO2vjjqYE9DK4f82U_hiaEp-e8GhfQdnBEsbIa5U8D1VIR6av8154t_XE/s800/Medieval-Bath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKBIqposG3iKNCYlHKAMdvCmBB9kD9mzC5fSaCQsZpO0txPBHObCLqft-A-10TIoP1EqnOPNCFKHDY3lvXolO2vjjqYE9DK4f82U_hiaEp-e8GhfQdnBEsbIa5U8D1VIR6av8154t_XE/w386-h400/Medieval-Bath.jpg" width="386" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Outdoor privies were not practical at a castle, and certainly the climate of Scotland made their use unpleasant for the humblest of abodes. The use of an <b>indoor chamber pot</b> was the norm for the middle and upper classes and had to be emptied. It was personal, in the room, and a habit that was hard to change when newer, updated offerings were offered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Also, the upper class members using a chamber pot were not responsible for emptying its contents, so did not have the motivation to try something unfamiliar.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the 16th century this was often out a window. Some castles had cesspools below a certain window for disposal. These would fill and need to be dug out from time to time. In cities and towns, emptying would be out a window, and often next to the street where people would be walking. Sidewalks were sort of gutters, and these would overflow...especially in rain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, my shoes!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSBMh4qPfRZDisOHsPQG10RKI66hMC8-bLlwA6rWlHgvwxm9uvVmP4OWWA3zux4Xr4HgBxkZYc8i_uuVEP23r4s_sMAIiDZtNeml2ZbiLc7ofuRbNXVFtbCBZ26KHA-mDYs4t-R2_xNA/s578/hi_wodct.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="436" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSBMh4qPfRZDisOHsPQG10RKI66hMC8-bLlwA6rWlHgvwxm9uvVmP4OWWA3zux4Xr4HgBxkZYc8i_uuVEP23r4s_sMAIiDZtNeml2ZbiLc7ofuRbNXVFtbCBZ26KHA-mDYs4t-R2_xNA/w301-h400/hi_wodct.jpg" width="301" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In Renaissance Scotland, the housewives threw their chamber pot contents and slops out the windows with the cry "Gardy Loo!" (This was evidently derived from the French "Gardez l'eau," meaning "look out for the water!")</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAgYrGYMAuQ0N1GvNdkvDIA6e7c_U4sVG8Gh60rwu5awvf9OCdTUuRZTmi1OfKBbEGRDu95juRSXZk4nTKEqU2_7BRj7tLJzpZZYoOcio6EnLB3wXIWCO4RFXxEwFSshYLpBqiRAzJE0/s340/a_pair_of_sevres_bourdaloues_circa_1776_manganese_interlaced_ls_to_bot_d5337111h.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="306" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAgYrGYMAuQ0N1GvNdkvDIA6e7c_U4sVG8Gh60rwu5awvf9OCdTUuRZTmi1OfKBbEGRDu95juRSXZk4nTKEqU2_7BRj7tLJzpZZYoOcio6EnLB3wXIWCO4RFXxEwFSshYLpBqiRAzJE0/w360-h400/a_pair_of_sevres_bourdaloues_circa_1776_manganese_interlaced_ls_to_bot_d5337111h.jpg" width="360" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yr6rFoRdzgT6pMsAu5tTUkiYhs18BDsgDtRd5_oAMgJaBlhEA7Ny56FzFgkSsvqIxnIPjvw-LzrEhDHAdIcEB3AtOFb2nDhYihLx3iKoAVgK5TNh41_EkGsq6vOHjyhDVgDpGPay1a4/s512/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="512" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yr6rFoRdzgT6pMsAu5tTUkiYhs18BDsgDtRd5_oAMgJaBlhEA7Ny56FzFgkSsvqIxnIPjvw-LzrEhDHAdIcEB3AtOFb2nDhYihLx3iKoAVgK5TNh41_EkGsq6vOHjyhDVgDpGPay1a4/w400-h299/unnamed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, the sound of the cry and the discarded material often arrived simultaneously. Woe to the one who looked up to see what was coming. It is believed that this may be the origin of the British term "loo" for a toilet.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Royal chamber pots were much fancier, more like chamber chairs or stools.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUOFB3YrGsM4_iZdyaZBU9k-NRuHH8BoKZvQt54msQsnOoC1deEzUwxXuVs0_KjDwbVN6VQ7b4RdbknLkZa2bP-EZPUMdPJVXhQjmGEFe6Q1T2RTq3KJpTMvR76F-sq0KHTJTNIQ351-A/s800/48091391871_93911f2485_c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUOFB3YrGsM4_iZdyaZBU9k-NRuHH8BoKZvQt54msQsnOoC1deEzUwxXuVs0_KjDwbVN6VQ7b4RdbknLkZa2bP-EZPUMdPJVXhQjmGEFe6Q1T2RTq3KJpTMvR76F-sq0KHTJTNIQ351-A/w300-h400/48091391871_93911f2485_c.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqTXI4ewn-i7RH5nKqCgVoIawc3zcZ3YYqKLnB63941ZSaaVUhrTWTIZ7KUYEOWmNCttbPO0nwxNCH-zvpd65hnKEMJ1GuUFGc8HUEM9pTVLOrnKJKwE6N_strRV134jsb4WX2s-YpFA/s1280/Stool+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqTXI4ewn-i7RH5nKqCgVoIawc3zcZ3YYqKLnB63941ZSaaVUhrTWTIZ7KUYEOWmNCttbPO0nwxNCH-zvpd65hnKEMJ1GuUFGc8HUEM9pTVLOrnKJKwE6N_strRV134jsb4WX2s-YpFA/w400-h225/Stool+A.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Castles and manor houses were generally equipped with <b>garderobes</b> that had stone or wooden seats above a shaft within the pit that had to be cleaned out at intervals.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="1234" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9mx9ZigJ8synXO9MYOVGJJzAVnddUkwephMFpaLfNYEmv8jtXIyyzfJd4SBHmhiSQTu7FN0OyFOEnPUTj76lqJ2dcAPD_eDIxlabkDtqa_FkHvz3NC_FAs8O_qr6539gXNlHlZcbLtE/w400-h390/1_z6g0D-iA9NeJVuXG_VYmXw.png" width="400" /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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As the waste capacity of the castle would reach full accommodation, people were less careful of where they took care of their bodily functions.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>There was a very high rate of infant mortality at this time. </span><span>Eventually a connection was made between filth and illness complaints, such as cholera. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After outdoor pits and pools were emptied/drained, stone floors and corners swished out with buckets of water and brooms, and shear length of uninhabited time, everyone was moved back.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe this is why there were so many castles and great houses per royal family. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps this explains so many castle ruins...some were simply impossible to keep clean over time or were initially built in too wet an environment to deal with waste water. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Proximity of human waste may have even ruined the quality of fresh water.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe as sanitation improved, it was not practical to keep up so many different homes, especially the ones not situated to make sanitation adequate..</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFIm8gJhVercZh3kktF0TLnZ02ctqPWMkilqHwPvBSdbV1xn-AJs8HlVwzqzyvol4WgOzyQjPI6piUy58RVrhea2_jCkw87eiOn1PVlYYSNp1pLAbCSZhEFjWOIqhCnTCePSBQ7aW55s/s1600/%252820130831%2529+-+Aberdour+Castle+-+028.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFIm8gJhVercZh3kktF0TLnZ02ctqPWMkilqHwPvBSdbV1xn-AJs8HlVwzqzyvol4WgOzyQjPI6piUy58RVrhea2_jCkw87eiOn1PVlYYSNp1pLAbCSZhEFjWOIqhCnTCePSBQ7aW55s/w400-h300/%252820130831%2529+-+Aberdour+Castle+-+028.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumvtw9O5g2eKqNjzCNjYIMDFBYisdnGAIfvrJzimxKG58VgjU161IiUePOh5X8FW85TXWRgZkaXOekG5NG8Fvp39y_yz10Weg62Li-ZIq9kbWfAha1Acwaba74VkPNg9h8fOIjB3rmI0/s1024/26926543836_d308a6cf17_k-1024x496.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="1024" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumvtw9O5g2eKqNjzCNjYIMDFBYisdnGAIfvrJzimxKG58VgjU161IiUePOh5X8FW85TXWRgZkaXOekG5NG8Fvp39y_yz10Weg62Li-ZIq9kbWfAha1Acwaba74VkPNg9h8fOIjB3rmI0/w400-h194/26926543836_d308a6cf17_k-1024x496.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Just when I fantasize about the 1500s and the ability to sit around all day and stitch, I uncover another unpleasant factoid.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay safe out there and keep each other safe. Here's hoping 2021 will be a better year!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">😉</span><br /></div>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-3155307150735416162020-12-22T00:20:00.007-06:002020-12-22T00:22:23.964-06:00getting excited<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(Yet another unposted draft; not sure where my head was in 2013.)</i></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Ooo...I am beginning to get excited about putting the blocks together!</span><br />
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<span>Yes, I do have 16 blocks finished, which is the magic number I need for the symphony quilt. But I will not use three of the finished blocks in this particular quilt because they are more general: the lyre and both clef blocks. They will be added to another block to make a smaller wall hanging containing 4 blocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The fine-tuning went so well with the strings, that I've been doing it with the four woodwind blocks. Outlining the keys really highlights the detail of the keys.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa :o)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I've been making some ornaments for my sisters using photos of their kids (they range from 5 to almost 9 years old).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I got the idea for these balls many years ago from a <b>Martha Stewart magazine</b>. She was suggesting a small ball using <b>recycled Christmas cards</b> or heavy scrapbooking papers. I had to try it immediately! Of course, mine are not nearly as elegant as hers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I made the following ornament featuring circles cut from various recycled cards containing Santas. For many years my friends tore the front part of the cards off after the holidays and saved them for me. There's a lot you can make from recycled greeting cards!</span></div></div>
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I start out with old photos, often rejects due to bad backgrounds, someone else's weird face, accidental photobombing, or just my inability to take good pictures. I am a much better photographer when I can just cut an isolated circle out of a disaster of a photo. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now I print some of the photos my sisters send me by email or text (or I snatch them off their Facebook pages).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Using Riley as my guinea pig, I choose a circle size that I want, the larger the circle the larger the ornament. A good <b>paper punch</b> is very handy, but this ornament can be made without one.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I then draft an equilateral triangle that fits inside of the circle. Your final picture will be the size of the flat triangular surface, with the rest of the face/hair on the folded up tabs. It is OK not to get the entire face, but try not to just get the nose, unless, of course, you want a nose <strike>gay</strike> ball.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">See? The picture below was tossed due to the horse having a bad hangover (red eyes). Riley had no hangover, so the shot was acceptable.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I should have cut a circle of just the horse's nose and bristly hairs...that would be funny and Riley would laugh over that for the next 60-70 years.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ahh, those special Christmas memories of a nutty mutter...</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I use the triangle to audition and choose or refuse the photos. Then I center the face in the middle of my circle punch and cut away. You can trace around a plastic template with a <b>long straight pin</b> or <b>awl</b> and cut out with <b>good, small paper scissors</b> (just on the inside of the scratched line). The scratched line is not as noticeable as a <b>fine Sharpie marker</b> if your paper cutting skills are like mine. If you want to make a circle in a size not available in a paper punch, that is the way you will have to do it.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before you mark and fold, figure out what part of the picture needs a 'pointy tip' of the triangle for a good fit.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then I <b>DO</b> use my <b>fine tip Sharpie</b> to trace the plastic triangle on the back of each circle and make a sharp crease. I just couldn't see a pencil mark; again, that darn slippery photo paper!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a trick of the camera flash that the close ups of the creased pictures look a little 'glittery.' It doesn't look like that in real life.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Each ball has one larger middle 'band' and two 'caps.' The caps requires five photo circles each and the middle band uses ten, so you need 20 photo circles for one ball.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">The three folded, flanged edges on each circle will be the surfaces for the glue. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Photos are a little trickier than just using circles cut from old Christmas cards. <b>Cardstock</b> is more absorbent (and forgiving) than the slick backs of photos so you don't have to be as careful with the amount of glue. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">And they dry faster. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">With <b>slick photo paper,</b> there is no place for extra glue to go but out, like ketchup (or down on your blouse if you are eating a glue sandwich). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">So I have a little trick with clips. (Ha, Martha! It's a <b>good thing</b>.)</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I use the <b>Roxanne's Glue Baste</b> for photos rather than school paste, old-fashioned Elmer's, or glue sticks. Roxanne's is thicker and dries a little faster and harder. The needle applicator delivers the right amount for me. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Use just a few small dots applied on one folded back surface, smear with a finger or toothpick, and adhere to a DRY back surface on the next circle. Don't use too much glue or it will squirt out the edge and be messy, but cover as well as possible.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">After a couple of tries, you will get a feel for how much glue is the perfect amount. You could just cut a few circles out of an index card or a really bad photo for practice if you like.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now for my trick for photos. Since the slick photo backing is not absorbent, I use the <b>smallest office clips</b> to gently hold the edges together for a bit. You can also use the cool <b>plastic Wonder Clips</b> (which I didn't own yet when I made these) or <b>wooden clothespins</b>. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I clip them on carefully so I don't mar the photo surface. The optimal number of clips needed depends on how big the circle with which you started.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">It can get confusing as to what surface to glue to what on the next photo. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">The clips are helpful to just clip without glue until you get your bearings again.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just look at the back and see how one triangle is 'fat side down' next to one that is 'fat side up,' etc. They alternate.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">It should look kind of like an unwieldly straight snake, consisting of ten photos. One good thing about the slick photo paper...if you get confused and glue the wrong two flanged edges together, they are easily pulled apart and repositioned. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cardstock is not so forgiving unless you catch your mistake quickly.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am making the middle band that takes ten pictures first. Due to the even number (10), it will make a band like a donut swim float. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I get to the two caps (top and bottom), they take an odd number (5). They will be closed like a shallow beanie hat.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've never made an ornament leaving out the middle band and just sticking two caps together. Might look cool and be a good exit point if you wish you had never started this project.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">The metal clips do make it a little heavy, but also provides little legs! I'm sure the Wonder Clips are much better for this.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-14436551437833182072020-12-17T08:26:00.012-06:002022-03-07T21:15:43.655-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Blocks 39, 40 and ROW 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQ0uYCcGVK8nWXzEcn5FKGCm-J4AnALSFP8cdWbGhyMtj10HPZuWmT6aBdln4fPFSQ2aIMSoNmLVadOWloZVsRZtIONB7eZkOkIY484WWN1s62b8HD8ljjNxe6UKXaS8S1wtmAihV0tM/s700/Mary+20.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="463" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQ0uYCcGVK8nWXzEcn5FKGCm-J4AnALSFP8cdWbGhyMtj10HPZuWmT6aBdln4fPFSQ2aIMSoNmLVadOWloZVsRZtIONB7eZkOkIY484WWN1s62b8HD8ljjNxe6UKXaS8S1wtmAihV0tM/w424-h640/Mary+20.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Coming home to Scotland as a Dowager French Queen was messy at best for Mary at 18 years of age. During all of her short life, England had been trying to neutralize her power and bend her will to their purposes. Even as a baby and wee lass she was vulnerable to being swept up and away by England. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The death of Mary's father at the time of her birth left Scotland on shaky ground. She was the unofficial queen at six days of age and quietly coronated at nine months old.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Linlithgow Castle, Scotland</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_E0EzXTZ18W44l9z48zNBTa6Mvem2MqT1NJG9QqEDbZ36Rnm1aev5iurHJ5K8jn7JkVldJaRzcsd1z5X2KKS5y0J0-OuMdbynPWJbX3TP_N1UBUV-x-bNXmojkLCn4fHEiaPrSq7bn8A/s564/Linlithgow+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="564" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_E0EzXTZ18W44l9z48zNBTa6Mvem2MqT1NJG9QqEDbZ36Rnm1aev5iurHJ5K8jn7JkVldJaRzcsd1z5X2KKS5y0J0-OuMdbynPWJbX3TP_N1UBUV-x-bNXmojkLCn4fHEiaPrSq7bn8A/w640-h426/Linlithgow+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary's familial claim to the English throne ahead of Elizabeth was real and being a Catholic with strong ties to France did not help. English Protestantism was beginning to set down strong roots around Edenborough and the Lowlands at this time.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Sterling Castle, Scotland</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVKSHLwaIJC7dVQDA4Wn3hstU2xoSj7gpwM10NhjyotpdRW0py28dVYFhFIG3qusmhAhJcIAuDrgDccHWuNwZm92Lv42QNhgJUF4VfFUZTDmFF7YkkIv60bO4cFN6NuglTKddRZOSBhNw/s705/Sterling+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="564" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVKSHLwaIJC7dVQDA4Wn3hstU2xoSj7gpwM10NhjyotpdRW0py28dVYFhFIG3qusmhAhJcIAuDrgDccHWuNwZm92Lv42QNhgJUF4VfFUZTDmFF7YkkIv60bO4cFN6NuglTKddRZOSBhNw/w512-h640/Sterling+4.jpg" width="512" /></span></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF3HD5u8nqCQFXVib9wNbKgnnjR6dLelH4xa9q8NQucFw-Z8ad6t7wOBqvzdC1jAzEiZGn73mbZvARoYvViysyW_KodQpJOHPsx-VNjWXRtRKgZKcTwknqPvfv_arcc9wn2BcIBZnHBO0/s563/Sterling+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Her French mother, Scottish Reagent, quietly moved Mary to the French court at age five years, already secretly betrothed to the infant Dauphin, Francis II.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Innermahome Priory, Scotland</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_kqa0KHkliQRXR8Dtsevguo0gSYW-eMNtd-AqkoU0Dorwf5guW4UlYri_X5ITOjsNSaXkQU4CiXbKRsF-eIYXGev6TIRB7ut16QWykSXrRzwLCNLddiQnkfaIqp72-Q5tuwO7r0z_GE/s564/Inchmahome+Priory+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="564" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_kqa0KHkliQRXR8Dtsevguo0gSYW-eMNtd-AqkoU0Dorwf5guW4UlYri_X5ITOjsNSaXkQU4CiXbKRsF-eIYXGev6TIRB7ut16QWykSXrRzwLCNLddiQnkfaIqp72-Q5tuwO7r0z_GE/w640-h426/Inchmahome+Priory+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ROW FOUR</b> of<b> "QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN"</b> is done and dusted and added to the design wall.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJf8jWlufFgryfYEXzueYGsB5K7-hrqX6oI5lI6J3gPWU6SDu9EOOb9QIwrXTsMuwrjySmuBPtjnXotU2DR-iNecW3L44bY7KwBjLKZUuTzVyU4tvNNb4A5pY73InrrNhlJthC3TQTqg/s2048/QM+-+4+rows+horizontal-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1559" data-original-width="2048" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJf8jWlufFgryfYEXzueYGsB5K7-hrqX6oI5lI6J3gPWU6SDu9EOOb9QIwrXTsMuwrjySmuBPtjnXotU2DR-iNecW3L44bY7KwBjLKZUuTzVyU4tvNNb4A5pY73InrrNhlJthC3TQTqg/w400-h305/QM+-+4+rows+horizontal-w.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Cambridge Sweet Pea</b> was blogged on 12/14/20.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Granny's Bonnet</b> was blogged on 12/14/20.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Belladonna Orange</b> was blogged on 12/14/20.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Lavender Daisy</b> was blogged on 12/14/20.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>The rows are not sewn to each other yet, but soon will be a top!</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are the final <b>ROW FOUR</b> blocks.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Fairy Wing Waterlily</b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEzQELK1mUmrlIF5fUSZ9VtvaJjahkPo0mhgI0T2ai1aF8gF7s9c_6uMC-F0k09aGFrIXTpHpQrqXN_cbc071ZS4o-8meAzsvPYh-aW0Co061byFLv0V3AEAjCOcRCljtwtPnn9rcE-k/s2048/%25281%2529+-+FAIRY+WING+WATERLILY-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEzQELK1mUmrlIF5fUSZ9VtvaJjahkPo0mhgI0T2ai1aF8gF7s9c_6uMC-F0k09aGFrIXTpHpQrqXN_cbc071ZS4o-8meAzsvPYh-aW0Co061byFLv0V3AEAjCOcRCljtwtPnn9rcE-k/s320/%25281%2529+-+FAIRY+WING+WATERLILY-w.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Stella D'oro Lily</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI72a_5PoHbrJm_QMPjCLTs9toWLRJAweIGdv8siw0DLK_8d7xk81rP5NH3dnTMcN2mLrts_FMypPbpcVCPxyBibpkg2ww_6lr5mMZGZs2wb8nQlrekKMZ_2dH0PbO3UEM433h_33Cnsg/s2048/%25281%2529+-+STELLA+D%2527ORO+LILY-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI72a_5PoHbrJm_QMPjCLTs9toWLRJAweIGdv8siw0DLK_8d7xk81rP5NH3dnTMcN2mLrts_FMypPbpcVCPxyBibpkg2ww_6lr5mMZGZs2wb8nQlrekKMZ_2dH0PbO3UEM433h_33Cnsg/s320/%25281%2529+-+STELLA+D%2527ORO+LILY-w.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Good luck with your Holiday Preparations!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">😉</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><i>On another thread...</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>I love using a mini iron when I work in a tight place. When I use steam, I hate trying to fill/refill the reservoir with water. It seems like the container with the water is larger than my iron! Of course that makes it too easy to overfill the iron and water goes everywhere.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxRO5a3x4kNqv8SQE2P9tz-HNPDDVLet9ClcsF5q-NQ9mzfCC6iUn2noznwXMT-qOpuAtVLGyp825v8Fpj35wK_4BL-ELGnADsHAHrgEx_jWcnkr8wj1TxSflMXbBjhKfppSqazEeVcs/s2048/fox+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxRO5a3x4kNqv8SQE2P9tz-HNPDDVLet9ClcsF5q-NQ9mzfCC6iUn2noznwXMT-qOpuAtVLGyp825v8Fpj35wK_4BL-ELGnADsHAHrgEx_jWcnkr8wj1TxSflMXbBjhKfppSqazEeVcs/w480-h640/fox+1.jpg" width="480" /></i></a></div><i><br /></i><div><i>Ta da! Problem solved! Who knew water was a condiment? Thank you Dollar General.</i></div><i><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><i><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><br /></div>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-10199935908237332442020-12-14T06:00:00.047-06:002022-03-07T20:18:16.197-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 continues - Blocks 35, 36, 37, 38<div class="separator"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ClGAu_skQgoBfO8UM3RIoUNNmMeWPs7xg_tsQ9M_YzcINMfvQbxfTv4fQ6dU_yy2YYvNrQkZzBRy_RfKC9tyVAhcCvOeR-3ZqPoYNuu5VCFNlU4wWda3zpqVCnTwXE14XSGESx2vi6Q/s488/Mary+12.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="366" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ClGAu_skQgoBfO8UM3RIoUNNmMeWPs7xg_tsQ9M_YzcINMfvQbxfTv4fQ6dU_yy2YYvNrQkZzBRy_RfKC9tyVAhcCvOeR-3ZqPoYNuu5VCFNlU4wWda3zpqVCnTwXE14XSGESx2vi6Q/s320/Mary+12.JPG" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Marriage and politics...not a good pairing in any century. Mary Queen of Scots was married three times in her short life of 47 years.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b> <span style="font-size: medium;">Paper Doll Box (front)</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Paper Doll Box (back)</span></b></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Isn't this fun? You've hit the big time when you get paper dolls made in your own image!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWEWkLei6RZ1biqzwOvEpEDaD_0pBTrkgXgEB9kLxrXDFDJ48KZlxW5VA2gqz_tTRZdEvVSyutTScRMScnTbZFjTLL7zg9sFo2nvxGVqc1eMoUeBoijXqAFhTcAsnluMZzh3KcEzMnOA/s512/MQS+paper+dolls+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="334" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWEWkLei6RZ1biqzwOvEpEDaD_0pBTrkgXgEB9kLxrXDFDJ48KZlxW5VA2gqz_tTRZdEvVSyutTScRMScnTbZFjTLL7zg9sFo2nvxGVqc1eMoUeBoijXqAFhTcAsnluMZzh3KcEzMnOA/s320/MQS+paper+dolls+4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary's first wedding was to Frances II, heir to the French throne. Scotland and England were allies, so the match was quite favorable. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rgywr4AJ4gyF4eq-twCCivDEzQD-PN12nwzpUS8wogmZ50NGM7PtQKe99-Z76wvlzEggy_LMW4QgJAgAqDD7ukN7kKUg7CNpjMXu_45bSwj69sp7zfvBkbK5w1OXMQYb6ncwat1k87c/s512/MQS+paper+dolls+5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rgywr4AJ4gyF4eq-twCCivDEzQD-PN12nwzpUS8wogmZ50NGM7PtQKe99-Z76wvlzEggy_LMW4QgJAgAqDD7ukN7kKUg7CNpjMXu_45bSwj69sp7zfvBkbK5w1OXMQYb6ncwat1k87c/s320/MQS+paper+dolls+5.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary had grown up in the French royal nursery, so she and the Daphine were close. He was 2 years younger than Mary so their relationship was most likely more like friends or cousins. Mary was fifteen years old at their marriage and Frances II was thirteen years young.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The same year, Mary's cousin, Elizabeth I became Queen of England. Now Mary became heir apparent to a English crown as well (her third potential throne). British genealogy, the Stuarts no exception) has always been complex and screwy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Soon after the wedding, King Henry II died from a fatal lance injury and his son became King. Francis II only reigned for about two years, when he, frail of body anyway, succumbed to a hunting accident. Mary became the Dowager Queen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Soon, Mary's mother, who had been Reagent of Scotland in her place, died. Mary returned to Scotland to take the throne and sort out the political mess between her beloved Scotland and England.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhi50aujx_djXM7Kpv_ybyJpbj4K-w1GjBx-DVNEj2atmOvg9nw0WcRN10g8bnZv9W-jo-qrKvACQvUKisvnshoEBjlA5qNqftR-l948nNAbzzsLcmXVfHwb0NfK2-UALktT6pKFXaSFY/s512/MQS+paper+dolls+8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhi50aujx_djXM7Kpv_ybyJpbj4K-w1GjBx-DVNEj2atmOvg9nw0WcRN10g8bnZv9W-jo-qrKvACQvUKisvnshoEBjlA5qNqftR-l948nNAbzzsLcmXVfHwb0NfK2-UALktT6pKFXaSFY/s320/MQS+paper+dolls+8.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary wed Henry, Lord Darnley. He murdered Rizzio, her beloved servant right in front of her, three months before their son, the future James VI, was born. I wonder who was her son's father? Lord Darnley had an idea, or if wrong, thought Rizzio knew.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Mary with baby James VI</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYfXZUUaMD3WK-s0WaUB2KQX_4baHFCp_22Ok-r1I7I-XmHpFMoOdBTQegSYFZb_Z1nIOVGJUSkQeuDnUytuvWd_3eZBnIZgTx3kd_RMs2g5Xe-JzsJJ8tHsAmT6LVkhefCWE5UL-Fcw/s512/MQS+paper+dolls+6A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="344" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYfXZUUaMD3WK-s0WaUB2KQX_4baHFCp_22Ok-r1I7I-XmHpFMoOdBTQegSYFZb_Z1nIOVGJUSkQeuDnUytuvWd_3eZBnIZgTx3kd_RMs2g5Xe-JzsJJ8tHsAmT6LVkhefCWE5UL-Fcw/s320/MQS+paper+dolls+6A.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary in prison. Older James VI, who becomes James I when on the throne</span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhts-C9zkp6wGnNVFkbrjizHCVwfF7KeIOZc6QB3qtgDwgfZX7n4jmXGg_Eb27I16WL9q_vyJndXyekSrbBLcW_Sytz5u95Egdf0tSKnNk7rLJ5_ibUQGwt79TdZ9qHP1hdZg9cPzT-Djo/s512/MQS+paper+dolls+6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="371" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhts-C9zkp6wGnNVFkbrjizHCVwfF7KeIOZc6QB3qtgDwgfZX7n4jmXGg_Eb27I16WL9q_vyJndXyekSrbBLcW_Sytz5u95Egdf0tSKnNk7rLJ5_ibUQGwt79TdZ9qHP1hdZg9cPzT-Djo/s320/MQS+paper+dolls+6.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lord Darnley was then murdered followed by Mary foolishly marrying Lord Bothwell. Mary was under suspicion for Darnley's murder, followed by a string of unfortunate events that led to her abdication of the Scottish throne and imprisonment at Lochleven Castle in Scotland.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30H68TRlCECRXcBToNwYBG5yS2sA83P7OW_BG3nzzZOXl-qfBuCwpQk084HPJP9Y-jt6XkpqOvuPLCHac_L8BIjPOJ4MFkIIcjQ2nSTphPNwz_vs7cPTNVAK-HiuhfE6rXV46_zJ0i7g/s512/MQS+paper+dolls+7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="383" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30H68TRlCECRXcBToNwYBG5yS2sA83P7OW_BG3nzzZOXl-qfBuCwpQk084HPJP9Y-jt6XkpqOvuPLCHac_L8BIjPOJ4MFkIIcjQ2nSTphPNwz_vs7cPTNVAK-HiuhfE6rXV46_zJ0i7g/s320/MQS+paper+dolls+7.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Queen Mary abdicating the Scottish throne</b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEL2tjxASRfNLuc1IUD7QuDlXQldjq5zJDHaZVZri0cBys1TajxLaP4c5U0KSokHmyIu9f3nTOFE6_l4KplSUsygM1jj7afm3lwUaeN2kq9NX2Jv9UVJ4AAJGCurmph-NctN204wLWj4/s800/Mary+72.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="571" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEL2tjxASRfNLuc1IUD7QuDlXQldjq5zJDHaZVZri0cBys1TajxLaP4c5U0KSokHmyIu9f3nTOFE6_l4KplSUsygM1jj7afm3lwUaeN2kq9NX2Jv9UVJ4AAJGCurmph-NctN204wLWj4/w285-h400/Mary+72.JPG" width="285" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whew! 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyFhTWJ-RJt3HfosHuaOJOAirWd-zmgPop2aPsD3pelVK-JGCMjVJXlLMSsZdYzz28-n3qmzYwbyH-16toFBtYHvkBw_4phojzV2kt-z3XLU0hdx5eYVNtqLlr6CE6-YxP50L1TEaBX-Y/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+BELLADONNA+ORANGE-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;">These blocks are part of <b>ROW FOUR.</b> We are moving along pretty well now with <b>QUEEN MARY's GARDEN.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">😉</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span><i>On another thread...</i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>When I was a girl, it would be raining at my grandparents' farm, and my little brother and I would be inside and bored. Grandmother always had an expired Butterick pattern book, two shoe boxes, two pairs of scissors, and a little waste can for us to make "paper dolls."</i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>We would sit on the cool concrete and cut out the pictures, placing each one in the shoeboxes. There weren't as many dads and babies to choose from as moms and daughters...</i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>I can still see and smell the rain coming off the roof in a curtain, lightly misting our faces. I don't think I ever had a store bought set.</i></span></div><div><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span><i>When I ran across the vintage Queen Mary dolls, I thought I would just see what else was available out there, although what I found was mostly for 'adult little girls' to collect and perhaps use for making crafts.</i></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDu1mcKUdK_DY6d8toMrPgW-zxaPrVTiZu-TJqbgUboh1ekW63LrEX7hhbk9BKu96-reegLKHar2TWuEEadJPpD6ApCEOI8HYNQ5s-GhPEXM50s-DbLREyxIHXZZkJ0z6QqOp_f5uWaU0/s592/bbbacb61e581d7b4f20d2e74607dc848+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVCqzs91OApORHBhZlj1PsfeKlabGhq1HG-B1CpkJCp0ISC-qxXXxtRt8qZpxMSnIcoankHA0Rjlbf-2E4RMmL07_ZTzXK9GDFGGT7Ql1tnV-ZIBvp_liDqfk1YN7gZo990PtEBcT2ddU/s592/47bcb8d9bcf098fd16bdc51f2ef4e88b.jpg" style="clear: right; 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text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKT5jryqHmmBwPPJE2Npq3XMcQSoUa9Z2f48X-IRhK5u_0LRr6NQLF-fHZDAdotm4GggkltTKcVGuxVYubxJ-WcYy_sW6T8GAlhA87EBFDAdVbC7sdXNGd-kvwcZkW7UFi0W1Uaz9iIc/s320/73810a008a5a80d977557d79e2ac2133.jpg" /></div></div><div><br /></div>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-4320751821558569752020-12-10T08:19:00.010-06:002022-03-07T20:15:35.074-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 continues - Birds, Birds, Birds!<div class="separator"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKTVqG09OZ97Z8wHxQlQy-P9dln2H6vsruTS9IfDe2bjfnH3ZUHCRPSs8rMbA03UQyX5GBIEVLm3TFllPrtS4q5hegA5Ku07r-CEpUu39PMsbp1ZXLdgU5_gETIwZ81VIsCtcgmkWSIM/s960/Mary+10.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKTVqG09OZ97Z8wHxQlQy-P9dln2H6vsruTS9IfDe2bjfnH3ZUHCRPSs8rMbA03UQyX5GBIEVLm3TFllPrtS4q5hegA5Ku07r-CEpUu39PMsbp1ZXLdgU5_gETIwZ81VIsCtcgmkWSIM/w360-h640/Mary+10.JPG" width="360" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As I've mentioned several times, inventing a border for something that probably was never meant to have one has definitely stumped me for a while now. I do have a habit of starting something I'm really exited about without thinking it through thoroughly.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvaDDI7sGwHl-0j_tzjRxtXp5Je57VD4RCkKhdVBD9UQSZs5j50QMKIKEgOPy8_yH7vybStPo-rO9bKpeLCkmOH0OC2GfBHD59ekFfM8LElRltjgl2X81WHuXtuPSQe5zQrQe8nD17SA/s1766/42+Botanical+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="1144" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvaDDI7sGwHl-0j_tzjRxtXp5Je57VD4RCkKhdVBD9UQSZs5j50QMKIKEgOPy8_yH7vybStPo-rO9bKpeLCkmOH0OC2GfBHD59ekFfM8LElRltjgl2X81WHuXtuPSQe5zQrQe8nD17SA/w414-h640/42+Botanical+1.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In my opinion, this actual antique embroidery piece was never meant to have borders. My guess is as follows:</span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This piece was only meant as a source of motifs to be teased apart and applied to large spans of whole cloth, often wool or something like velvet. This enhanced whole cloth was used for decorative domestic items, such as bedding (spreads, valences, dust ruffles, and bed drapes), upholstery, wall coverings, religious alter cloths, and such. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Bed drapes of heavy cloth made the sleeping environment much warmer, and certainly more private. Beds of the 16th century were much larger than the king size beds of modern times.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">While looking at the following two pictures, notice the smaller little motifs sprinkled between the larger floral blocks...flowers, bugs, birds, and even a mermaid. Can you find her?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZLGnnt97XlRMKLPYErdQuLbPLh1Ft8WahO-3PzmGqLg7POWmpHDkCilLml8lrOJd-9ZLqAc_MbY4GYDSM57w3ozDGek0tiJ_b33bDBvT68yVBqFVHy51u7P2K72xUDZSo35Gb_ioCIg/s567/59fab7a3a0c4aa0cbb0dc016449be7c1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="461" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZLGnnt97XlRMKLPYErdQuLbPLh1Ft8WahO-3PzmGqLg7POWmpHDkCilLml8lrOJd-9ZLqAc_MbY4GYDSM57w3ozDGek0tiJ_b33bDBvT68yVBqFVHy51u7P2K72xUDZSo35Gb_ioCIg/w520-h640/59fab7a3a0c4aa0cbb0dc016449be7c1.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHIgo_s4yk8IZMZNy-L-ZbOHha080ivHbChhhIiZJWvmkEJmt2_fgCZevqWuXjpW1Z6X4y-Gt95J8cebQ98n6klNm5Oy34iVWVaWUs3YtVuqeZJvlCvXaV80RzE5Kwrl081c2Jrft6ag/s515/955acf48d4499dd532f3b46e154ff626.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="473" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHIgo_s4yk8IZMZNy-L-ZbOHha080ivHbChhhIiZJWvmkEJmt2_fgCZevqWuXjpW1Z6X4y-Gt95J8cebQ98n6klNm5Oy34iVWVaWUs3YtVuqeZJvlCvXaV80RzE5Kwrl081c2Jrft6ag/w588-h640/955acf48d4499dd532f3b46e154ff626.jpg" width="588" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The photo </span><span>of our initial inspiration piece </span><span>shows the first and last row a little chopped off, top and bottom. Were the edges a little ragged when found? Had some motifs already been removed and cropping employed just to clean things up for a photo?</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Rows 6 and 7</b></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYY89GyPmtA2hll3X7e5LjaDEMAqDR3BC57YJ6CyacBLIYK6LHTAbuTMhUEkJhL2y-wMP6dcbacwr0I2PGLHT9fbNPT6Lo1hA-2POlzyhmsGQH3-72xSb5HRmrQict_59zXn2VIh2EqY/s1085/42+Botanical+1+-+Cut+off+bottom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="1085" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYY89GyPmtA2hll3X7e5LjaDEMAqDR3BC57YJ6CyacBLIYK6LHTAbuTMhUEkJhL2y-wMP6dcbacwr0I2PGLHT9fbNPT6Lo1hA-2POlzyhmsGQH3-72xSb5HRmrQict_59zXn2VIh2EqY/w640-h256/42+Botanical+1+-+Cut+off+bottom.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Rows 1 and 2</b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjJpDQ4C6l3_KQc26WLcL4ycgm2uH3qqwBOksEIGiHL7mrFzHie5COMmZpBv7nfQ3yLCVmJHgvSMQ63EmOZMzaFrLVb2h_-TVWEBspuT7NiaBiJLv9x25T0gzhJ1i6DsVsCJ6fic4pZA/s1082/42+Botanical+1+-+cut+off+top.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="1082" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjJpDQ4C6l3_KQc26WLcL4ycgm2uH3qqwBOksEIGiHL7mrFzHie5COMmZpBv7nfQ3yLCVmJHgvSMQ63EmOZMzaFrLVb2h_-TVWEBspuT7NiaBiJLv9x25T0gzhJ1i6DsVsCJ6fic4pZA/w640-h304/42+Botanical+1+-+cut+off+top.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Also if you look closely, the squares are defined by very faint lines that aren't very straight or continuous. I think the lines are left from when the motif pattern outlines were softly inked. A large grid was drawn, then each block was sketched out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(Sorry, I know these lines are hard to see at this magnification...the lines are not seams, as it appears that leaf tips hang over into next block.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpRqCRbEV-RovjVhx3sU0ZFi5DFXW2RBdzmplAnbspQ1dqBkfS3Cp4fm1YR3v1v375BJY323w01pJ4GKWHeIRq-EzvD7am0xn2RBUn2JojkAtG5_mYcGPQPWQSnWvgakKk4m6-Tf1EgE/s385/42+Botanical+1+-+look+at+faint+lines.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="249" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpRqCRbEV-RovjVhx3sU0ZFi5DFXW2RBdzmplAnbspQ1dqBkfS3Cp4fm1YR3v1v375BJY323w01pJ4GKWHeIRq-EzvD7am0xn2RBUn2JojkAtG5_mYcGPQPWQSnWvgakKk4m6-Tf1EgE/w259-h400/42+Botanical+1+-+look+at+faint+lines.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">These motifs are really crammed together with no space to spare. They were meant to be cut out and applied to larger domestic pieces of fabric, spread out with distance between them. These forty-two blocks would go a long way to make many yards of ornate heavy material.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I've found a few good photos of tapestries on castle walls. These are usually extremely large scenes, some being painted on a finer weave of fabric...most as decoration. Maybe they were also employed to cover up the stone walls, add some interest, and perhaps a little warmth and protection from moisture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Curated museum pictures and locations for castle tours are not always the best representation of what things looked like in Mary's time, the mid 16th century. Later generations or owner/inhabitants added things and updated, like the crown molding.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6P-K7K5pv5gzD8IJ031eui8fzRyHLzsPNCKSpMKqAtuKcriKxW0nvvAuSHzA8rYoueTDe4vFO15bb7L2zzH2Es4tZGCArWiFtcaZejeRuBdstzhBa50-O1RzvGejhPsGFIBfVICwCiF4/s632/5ef09da1d1bc3363f74f18e064f64e7d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="474" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6P-K7K5pv5gzD8IJ031eui8fzRyHLzsPNCKSpMKqAtuKcriKxW0nvvAuSHzA8rYoueTDe4vFO15bb7L2zzH2Es4tZGCArWiFtcaZejeRuBdstzhBa50-O1RzvGejhPsGFIBfVICwCiF4/w480-h640/5ef09da1d1bc3363f74f18e064f64e7d.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">OK, where are the aforementioned birds?!? I see them flying toward us now. Similar embroidered pieces from Traquair House have the same crammed together block style. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are two of these similar tapestries, one with random flower sprigs in the border and one with birds and beasts. These randomly placed bird and beast motifs are pictured below.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ecBNGQ380SqUHI_Fo1x6xcISON-R-9D3CwCitVxnU5C-ejOivkZ1RmWeYd4no6LT4KgNOqgBcJgRG_Jk_b-a2XZ7OaS-5hdHkG-w9a9aGiaMnBSCMNRG_lojEdeGjFAKyKqxivabkqI/s3185/IMG_0157.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3185" data-original-width="987" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ecBNGQ380SqUHI_Fo1x6xcISON-R-9D3CwCitVxnU5C-ejOivkZ1RmWeYd4no6LT4KgNOqgBcJgRG_Jk_b-a2XZ7OaS-5hdHkG-w9a9aGiaMnBSCMNRG_lojEdeGjFAKyKqxivabkqI/w198-h640/IMG_0157.JPEG" width="198" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj44ce6RFXrl0yfm_fXm2GfriAeyoJ-VCEXvkcLDze3Rf9HN92Yp-niB8Je3S9cQTCOJE7b-cYM-9tBDO7B5XBYLITyZ0yefToJr5hFwecpo3uSNyGRC-D4bgahAjnNedUc6gC7j4X2SXE/s2564/IMG_0158.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="2564" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj44ce6RFXrl0yfm_fXm2GfriAeyoJ-VCEXvkcLDze3Rf9HN92Yp-niB8Je3S9cQTCOJE7b-cYM-9tBDO7B5XBYLITyZ0yefToJr5hFwecpo3uSNyGRC-D4bgahAjnNedUc6gC7j4X2SXE/w640-h306/IMG_0158.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">These do not look like borders to me, but rather like more motifs to stitch and transfer to the larger works, along with the florals. The finished birds, bugs and animals were sprinkled in between the larger floral motifs in a final large project.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The following piece is the same two borders, charted into a needlepoint project about 35 years ago. This is a totally random arrangement of birds and beasts, only on two sides of the embroidered set of blocks (blocks to be revealed at a later date).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It is as if there was a little left over waste canvas after the floral blocks were inked. The space was economically used to ink additional motifs.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aMwM-7ofwkTjBRjKwY_id0G-KYlu8P0uzTyHqcrw7P7aYb1nrlxa6lvtxwTNM8SDWdISrHC_0i-TVqnLkXdXLcyjkIQ4y1gIwhZhc1UJhvwvDCqSH6xD0GViygPwerP4D6BLAQ2nh4M/s429/Botanical+B+border.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="288" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aMwM-7ofwkTjBRjKwY_id0G-KYlu8P0uzTyHqcrw7P7aYb1nrlxa6lvtxwTNM8SDWdISrHC_0i-TVqnLkXdXLcyjkIQ4y1gIwhZhc1UJhvwvDCqSH6xD0GViygPwerP4D6BLAQ2nh4M/w430-h640/Botanical+B+border.jpg" width="430" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, here are some of my bird-brained attempts of trying to use bird representations from Mary's time to influence my birds. I still need to insert the eye for a few of them, and I thought that three head feathers made this one look less like the Lock Ness monster.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>(9th bird down in colored version)</b></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwpt3dpuMBuRbVu8wnb1NghVfW4-EEQIt0NxWEX2qs-k2sLvFOmDZSFvDO3_mpWmoxhV98l7rwW7JbYRlZqgYbHi_4fz05qc-yaWIz3mYLLCnqZaH2nahoG5XxFzWbNzgbd9Vj1jUt1do/s2048/flam-04-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1235" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwpt3dpuMBuRbVu8wnb1NghVfW4-EEQIt0NxWEX2qs-k2sLvFOmDZSFvDO3_mpWmoxhV98l7rwW7JbYRlZqgYbHi_4fz05qc-yaWIz3mYLLCnqZaH2nahoG5XxFzWbNzgbd9Vj1jUt1do/w241-h400/flam-04-w.JPG" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinDy4HRFMaEPItsaxHuKZBTfhWDZdaauHtol3kRNfANk8RjvM1pZb8HBlq4dHuHbrXBtXrxOA8-TK9tFgIk4GtxarOcqxYsQQnt8QPwcDCyNEpZ90qQBdjYESXEH05ijYQlD4GIEyPPb4/s2048/flam-01-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinDy4HRFMaEPItsaxHuKZBTfhWDZdaauHtol3kRNfANk8RjvM1pZb8HBlq4dHuHbrXBtXrxOA8-TK9tFgIk4GtxarOcqxYsQQnt8QPwcDCyNEpZ90qQBdjYESXEH05ijYQlD4GIEyPPb4/w234-h400/flam-01-w.JPG" width="234" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLozxlgyyH4LhG-ox9oE-hsB_U5mBhxDKQB017dcijrc937S__aRlGQKb_miw_mVLIHNT-W4a68S_ihPmN44jGL6J64BJCq_1M9LGpnP5vz8Zjvh6EflJD2QZ5_CMkDmVC9UjVAONuEag/s2048/flam-02-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1528" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLozxlgyyH4LhG-ox9oE-hsB_U5mBhxDKQB017dcijrc937S__aRlGQKb_miw_mVLIHNT-W4a68S_ihPmN44jGL6J64BJCq_1M9LGpnP5vz8Zjvh6EflJD2QZ5_CMkDmVC9UjVAONuEag/w299-h400/flam-02-w.JPG" width="299" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I love how quirky the birds from Mary's time have been depicted. It was all fine and acceptable: any shape, any feathers, any color, any size feet and legs. These larger legs/feet are MUCH easy to applique!</span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtGh4Rc8hgihaf8vhhHwJE_mYLaJhx6uFkRNHbT2KjWaIKB5XddVv9d7jsNiqXouYnt0kJOOPbKYOINWnL8xd-QW3alLce9l5_67ODyeT4xb5ZzTN04F4E4Tr2b8_is-NQkCXLqQuCRo/s2048/flam-03-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1791" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtGh4Rc8hgihaf8vhhHwJE_mYLaJhx6uFkRNHbT2KjWaIKB5XddVv9d7jsNiqXouYnt0kJOOPbKYOINWnL8xd-QW3alLce9l5_67ODyeT4xb5ZzTN04F4E4Tr2b8_is-NQkCXLqQuCRo/w350-h400/flam-03-w.JPG" width="350" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">(4th bird down in colored version)</span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrgy9oUEUjckAtzFqLxkE8VckUFIjG56ryGGPznzfRsOanllPqVQNeJCw0Z_tLap8nT6nvNpvjnRinfHgynxFYecs4IXMNiiECAZiK9xyP2fbfRtCPBDRbnFVNnwT9lNGsZA5pKJFkWng/s2048/bird+biting+1-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTUmS2vGTy3eXCGOKD-LR0vbzoio8GyzDHx7pWMdOM-tWh47kauOnEZuxT5dYXPRmQFkYY8m7NB-BRJ6hC-n4yOUFO4ldgeM0L5fjxSzaaFFGmbCUfiBrBtqkz0R89ohp43Rm2ihJRao/s2048/bird+biting+3-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTUmS2vGTy3eXCGOKD-LR0vbzoio8GyzDHx7pWMdOM-tWh47kauOnEZuxT5dYXPRmQFkYY8m7NB-BRJ6hC-n4yOUFO4ldgeM0L5fjxSzaaFFGmbCUfiBrBtqkz0R89ohp43Rm2ihJRao/w400-h308/bird+biting+3-w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">See if you can figure out which birds in the following picture were inspiration for my next few birds.</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPFIjoKeQLLqFdo0N50I2VzE5x5xjfS3Yl5ZICGXAkyLeoyQJu4qm5TkXojIvudY7pC3XW1S-R4E3b4MtVsh-CzJN5cP9aEpfN5w-wAgMkwyu3zmbW1I0DnLUn61L7xIRfk096yV-6yQk/s840/bird+pic+20+-+Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Hmmm.</span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am not going to commit to any border ideas until I try a few more birds that I already have sketched. I don't want the borders to be too silly for the floral blocks. I kind of like the quirkiness of <strike>mocking</strike> incorporating the original 16th century birds, maybe also some animals and bugs.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe a mermaid!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I think Queen Mary herself is going to make an appearance in her garden...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been fun to pick out fabrics for these guys from my stash. I'm getting to use pieces that look a little like feathers.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa 😏 </span></p><p><i><span><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span>On another thread...</span></i></p><p><i>If you are looking for some comedic binge TV to watch while gift wrapping, licking Christmas card envelopes, or breaking coal into the proper sized lumps, I have found something that really 'gets my geek on.'</i></p><p><i>It is called <b>"The IT Crowd,"</b> where 'IT' stands for 'Information Technology.' It is about two guys and a new departmental manager who are supposed to solve computer and IT problems for a large corporation. Of course, that is the least of what they 'do.'</i></p><p><i>It is on Netflix...I have gotten through three seasons.</i></p><p><i>It is a British show that started in 2006. The Brits do my favorite kind of comedy!</i></p><p><i>Yes, I am married to a computer geek, so I am constantly hearing some of the snarkier lines from the show when Steve answers my computer questions.</i></p></div>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-28646314600400330602020-12-07T06:00:00.011-06:002022-03-07T21:19:33.706-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Blocks 32, 33, 34 and ROW 3<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbqNaHYdlTNRBtj-HxD7ZLDtfUjnWJ-QCkJPeaVPibGlWWetZY8MYXoJDLleR7ohF_7vAa5K81A28gDnVlYndO294bP2r_S28H6G1-bqy_RDssUAAeRyqFyDPGoee9vSKWMrKWEpsNoq0/s750/Mary+14.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbqNaHYdlTNRBtj-HxD7ZLDtfUjnWJ-QCkJPeaVPibGlWWetZY8MYXoJDLleR7ohF_7vAa5K81A28gDnVlYndO294bP2r_S28H6G1-bqy_RDssUAAeRyqFyDPGoee9vSKWMrKWEpsNoq0/s320/Mary+14.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">While Queen Mary was away in France, a real stew was beginning to boil over in Scotland. Her step-brother (older, illegitimate) had been acting the King during the latter period of Marie de Guise's Regency. Mary's mother had counsel, and interference, from her de Guise brothers, powerful men in the French court.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Also, England was trying to weedle the Protestant faith into Scotland. There were some Scots, especially around Edenborough, that were fine with this choice. France and Scotland were both Catholic nations and allies against the English.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">England's previous king, Henry VIII, had been Catholic until he wanted to divorce his wife.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary made the dangerous journey home, not encountering the British, feeling confident that she could gain control and fulfill her destiny to be the rightful ruler. She wanted a strong, independent Scotland. Some wanted Scotland to be Catholic and some were open to John Knox and the Protestant movement from England.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary might have been open to both religions, just as long as she herself could practice Catholicism. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">There was also opposing political pressure for Mary, a widow, to marry again.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's finish the <b>THIRD ROW!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHtplN4IqwyFeE_P_AMlYwaQ2YSpXgUHqZcJsgV53vkqdFku9-Lf9BjpUk6HbtBCZ_Ejg5jM1AmvT8nKqNnOKzG6M1UHuMKcsiLyBs6dnJXWaqnHGkMBoNO-3wwtr_w6cnguX95IYB3k/s2048/QM+-+3+rows-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lumos Posie</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicgSwDNo_IrirX4fxASiMD6R5XHprEboYf7EnoCQTabFYwjGqM9EJnBJ3qwcLVHRJeaXM-1HKYaR9iyLvwoiQqPlHIiCuCxYRb_Wv2_xyxLsQJCMM-gj4MagR09udAIwpNJ6Twv1yO0j4/s2048/%25281%2529+-+LUMOS+POSIE-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicgSwDNo_IrirX4fxASiMD6R5XHprEboYf7EnoCQTabFYwjGqM9EJnBJ3qwcLVHRJeaXM-1HKYaR9iyLvwoiQqPlHIiCuCxYRb_Wv2_xyxLsQJCMM-gj4MagR09udAIwpNJ6Twv1yO0j4/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+LUMOS+POSIE-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><i><b>Dianthus Carnation</b> was blogged on 05/11/20.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><i><b>Country Rose</b> was blogged on 02/26/20.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><i><b>Baby Blue Eye</b> was blogged on 03/22/20.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><i><b>Concorde Pear</b> was blogged on 03/22/20.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There has been some cozy quilting weather here in NW Alabama...very chilly. This has made for the perfect time to be inside stitching and decorating Christmas trees.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next time I am going to share my initial thoughts on the border. I have come up with several ideas, but I am now leaning toward an unusual border actually seen on another tapestry in the collection.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In Stitches,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa :o)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>On another thread...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Am I the last person on the planet to have discovered the <b>"Outlander"</b> series of books by Diana Gabaldon??? The first book of the series was published in 1991. I think I must have been under a rock or something. I was too busy reading Dr. Seuss, <b>"Little Bear,"</b> and <b>"Good Night Gorilla"</b> aloud to my daughter...followed by all the <b>Harry Potter</b> books, etc.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>There are eight of the planned ten books available now, with number nine hopefully coming out in early 2021. Gabaldon has certainly been slow about dribbling them out...her impatient fans call themselves "draught-landers," LOL. She has done a lot of time-consuming historic research for these books, which gives a realistic frame to the unusual storyline.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>I started listening to the books on Audible almost a year ago. These books are of the historical fiction genre. There's a GREAT storyline and the characters are AWESOME (some are hot, hot, hot, hot, hot). Settings are from Scottish history from the mid-1700s, English WWI history from the mid-1900s, French history from before the Revolution, and American history, both from colonization thru the Revolutionary War and the late 1960s/early 1970s. Wowza!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Don't worry if you aren't a history buff...references aren't like a lecture and do more to shape the story.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Davina Porter, my favorite reader on Audible, does a great job performing the variety of voice dialects and foreign accents needed for this great adventure. She really makes Gabaldon's great characters come alive and sound just like you would think they should.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>WELL, I kept telling my husband that I thought these books would make GREAT television. He found out that season one (basically book one) came out in 2014 as a Starz network original series.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Yahoo! Binge watching session...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>As soon as COVID-19 calms down, season six is ready to shoot (they shoot in Scotland, even for the "American" story bits. Seasons 1-3 of the five seasons are available are Netflix (#4 on DVD and #5 on Starz).</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>I am glad I had read the books first. Seasons 1-3 are fairly close to books, but don't contain some of the side characters (no time...too much fabulous content in these books).</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>From the books, I had very definite pictures in my brain of what Jamie and Claire looked like. I was afraid that I would be disappointed when seeing the actors chosen for the show.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Nope.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>All this Mary Queen of Scots nonsense has made me really interested in all things Scottish. Outlander is anchored in the mid-1700s, around the time of the final Rising (against England, hoping for Scottish independence).</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>It's fun to think about men in kilts with dirty knees, boots, and a broad sword.</i></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span><p><br /></p>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-55775848265025029762020-12-03T06:00:00.009-06:002022-03-07T21:20:08.030-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Blocks 30, 31<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMq7S8n0v22fCnmjsRYMNUAcP3bwaspaQsBvYFxy7x81SsosPUWj3rFe4fmD68X3fL5khfTnndtKMqWoEwAnbVl8VEA2LPP7DfEKCcaCbO71bcrdphlzZ8zvioC47-TDcV4Nq3dRug0cI/s900/Mary+67.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMq7S8n0v22fCnmjsRYMNUAcP3bwaspaQsBvYFxy7x81SsosPUWj3rFe4fmD68X3fL5khfTnndtKMqWoEwAnbVl8VEA2LPP7DfEKCcaCbO71bcrdphlzZ8zvioC47-TDcV4Nq3dRug0cI/w334-h400/Mary+67.JPG" width="334" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">When we last heard about Mary Queen of Scots, she was leaving France as Dowager queen to return home to Scotland as the rightful Scottish queen (actually crowned at 9 months of age.)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Leaving" is too tame a word. She basically had to sneak home. The British wanted nothing more than to capture her as she traveled between the France and England. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">There were two possibilities of a way home to Scotland; over land or over sea. It was determined that the land journey was more dangerous, so the sea voyage was chosen.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW7T5BdEwJI1EqK0eVpYSwasF2Kp3t9vtQ_JRbLHVUgDuZmzJFQBYg-FhP-6C28JOx8myw61Vf4zVCyerACT5OMYA45gf-QTRkXo0YBcRiO4Yz493LdoNi2VknX7BFpAU19L8tCQnR1A/s640/Mary+17-A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW7T5BdEwJI1EqK0eVpYSwasF2Kp3t9vtQ_JRbLHVUgDuZmzJFQBYg-FhP-6C28JOx8myw61Vf4zVCyerACT5OMYA45gf-QTRkXo0YBcRiO4Yz493LdoNi2VknX7BFpAU19L8tCQnR1A/w640-h424/Mary+17-A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary arrived safely home, with her "four Marie's" and with a proper welcome, from most.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary had a claim to the English throne (she and Queen Elizabeth were actually cousins.) Queen Elizabeth had powerful advisors and lords who wanted Scotland under England's rule. They feared the return of Queen Mary to Scotland due to her strength of character, great intelligence, knowledge of politics, and strong devotion to the Catholic church. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary's elder, illegitimate step-brother had been acting the King during the latter period of Marie de Guise's Regency. Mary's mother had also allowed her de Guise brothers, powerful men in the French court, to have influence from afar.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, England was trying to weedle the protestant faith into Scotland. There were some Scots that were in agreement with this. France and Scotland were both Catholic nations and allies against the English.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary went home to a real political mess and set about to gain control to establish/protect her power. She, and most others, wanted a strong, independent Scotland. A lesser number wanted the protestant movement to be successful. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ROW TWO</b> blocks are done and sewn together in a strip! Only two new blocks to share this time as the other five blocks in ROW TWO have been posted previously:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPCOnYVtEKexM3G-n_MnH3Ht_iOKYb-EmGlyG0jmuLakWPaGGFkENC_Z6HDijjPsfbXE5A7-xQaNSB4nZKCDKLkUx98Hz8WEK-1wUO7bunKFG5CBI87ndbt6VuYcBwuF8X9qSDKeKK9Q/s2048/QM+-+2+rows-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPCOnYVtEKexM3G-n_MnH3Ht_iOKYb-EmGlyG0jmuLakWPaGGFkENC_Z6HDijjPsfbXE5A7-xQaNSB4nZKCDKLkUx98Hz8WEK-1wUO7bunKFG5CBI87ndbt6VuYcBwuF8X9qSDKeKK9Q/w258-h400/QM+-+2+rows-w.JPG" width="258" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Stargazer Lily</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzmNj7-kpgGk5Lwkzv8Vpbf6nFu77BVfrJSa8dFCreVWsR0i7OfKdmuDHUQIE2OO1tbsM7xkJ-u7CNpJH9-jpd8gSA2llchwQgoJATrQj0WnfPOWUDWVsX9zxfWRanhui-UW_aUqBdyA/s2048/%25281%2529+-+STARGAZER+LILY-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzmNj7-kpgGk5Lwkzv8Vpbf6nFu77BVfrJSa8dFCreVWsR0i7OfKdmuDHUQIE2OO1tbsM7xkJ-u7CNpJH9-jpd8gSA2llchwQgoJATrQj0WnfPOWUDWVsX9zxfWRanhui-UW_aUqBdyA/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+STARGAZER+LILY-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Ornamental Crabapple</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFGzXW3wHssa_w8ub0ax93YqHVKrWp3ak8vIatnS5N9vm7tFXKiVvhoWcfgJg-IY1bL08QUjt3BEX1uo-7YHALJE76LX2YWaqkIAn9l2hhZfNZNpK1lomhMBF9NABfVRMIOkJ8Oh88aw/s1933/%25281%2529+-+ORNAMENTAL+CRABAPPLE-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1933" data-original-width="1535" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFGzXW3wHssa_w8ub0ax93YqHVKrWp3ak8vIatnS5N9vm7tFXKiVvhoWcfgJg-IY1bL08QUjt3BEX1uo-7YHALJE76LX2YWaqkIAn9l2hhZfNZNpK1lomhMBF9NABfVRMIOkJ8Oh88aw/w318-h400/%25281%2529+-+ORNAMENTAL+CRABAPPLE-w.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span><i><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b>Bleu Columbine</b> was blogged on 02/26/2020.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b>Jonquilia Daffodil</b> was blogged on 10/08/2020.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b>Bhagwa Pomegranate</b> was blogged on 10/10/2020.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b>Crab Lily</b> was blogged on 10-10-2020.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b>Challesas Grape</b> was blogged on 05/11/2020.</span></div></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I spent ever so much time moving the blocks around to achieve balance in this quilt top of such colorful and varied flowers. I had to balance color, block density, flowers versus fruit, etc. I'm not sure if I hit on the best arrangement. After a while you stand back, squint at the design wall, shrug, and just say "yep."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">You can ask da husbands as they walk by, but they usually don't even glance at the design wall and say, "looks great, dear."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa 😏</span></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-58254613016153247522020-11-29T14:43:00.017-06:002022-03-07T21:21:16.999-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Blocks 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiOc6hISTwEbuZv3zFYYIxW2mvvZjrS79se9f8CbRSXIuOnv9V9IbKXtSUGpo5lZDcHGt4QewivdIpHKFJLCdoMtZmQprmADrO2hFVMc1FjrB9ogHWPBqDpx0SoBGOs5dOSowcK00I5wA/s488/Mary+11.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="366" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiOc6hISTwEbuZv3zFYYIxW2mvvZjrS79se9f8CbRSXIuOnv9V9IbKXtSUGpo5lZDcHGt4QewivdIpHKFJLCdoMtZmQprmADrO2hFVMc1FjrB9ogHWPBqDpx0SoBGOs5dOSowcK00I5wA/w300-h400/Mary+11.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When last we talked about Mary Queen of Scots, she was a widow and Dowager Queen of France. She had married the younger Dauphin, Frances, son of King Francis, whom she had grown up around and liked very much.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Due to her mother's place in the French court, Mary had been sent at a young age, from Scotland, to be raised in the "royal nursery" of France. That is where Mary knew and got close to the young Dauphin. Here she was "finished" and polished as she grew up (the Scots were considered course in manner with speech and accent undignified.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNCe8HBW9TDRUtOVrxdJBhVyS2OW1daPBbBSW1BY2BwQtVoZGyLdJWbDGXFqc1zgaDmxDQ7JT-CzXh6xqyV4C5KONledbFgNZvs9f94A2HLjWWTw3nhH2Hxa0JIMcEgmBEMJAZwSNrjFI/s400/Mary+50.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="296" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNCe8HBW9TDRUtOVrxdJBhVyS2OW1daPBbBSW1BY2BwQtVoZGyLdJWbDGXFqc1zgaDmxDQ7JT-CzXh6xqyV4C5KONledbFgNZvs9f94A2HLjWWTw3nhH2Hxa0JIMcEgmBEMJAZwSNrjFI/w296-h400/Mary+50.JPG" width="296" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With her young husband, she was to be queen, but when he died, she was named the Dowager Queen. Then her father-in-law died, and HIS wife, Catherine de Medici also became Dowager Queen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkFJtbf6xSHB81mP6nWlCwMdqESAhyphenhyphenfPb5P7qWv2IjLJRHDjnLSNViE3iUls-YqsOCBrUg7QBh2mroSWDEwXbI3yVDg42rzLz2dWswu97E7FRYTQl49see4k7KH8VG4-p_t8Z5L7KoWL8/s731/mary+manuscript+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="474" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkFJtbf6xSHB81mP6nWlCwMdqESAhyphenhyphenfPb5P7qWv2IjLJRHDjnLSNViE3iUls-YqsOCBrUg7QBh2mroSWDEwXbI3yVDg42rzLz2dWswu97E7FRYTQl49see4k7KH8VG4-p_t8Z5L7KoWL8/w259-h400/mary+manuscript+1.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">One Dowager Queen was enough.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0S8VqUBaYOdjnDgIOJ4rMhCGnii5n1IJzcebuI6YNx3zzKiflBbhZEuwgrTdy8SJY5Sir7zZfVukrRwDkA_DTk224rKFkortSfr8v9_EnNrjrqa9MDcmsl8KoOdiPHdRc1ZpFt-tji44/s1024/Mary+60.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="691" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0S8VqUBaYOdjnDgIOJ4rMhCGnii5n1IJzcebuI6YNx3zzKiflBbhZEuwgrTdy8SJY5Sir7zZfVukrRwDkA_DTk224rKFkortSfr8v9_EnNrjrqa9MDcmsl8KoOdiPHdRc1ZpFt-tji44/w270-h400/Mary+60.JPG" width="270" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mom, Marie de Guise, had stayed in Scotland separated from her daughter, as Regent, a "place keeper" for Mary. Mary Queen of Scots had been Scotland's rightful queen since 9 months of age (her father died when she was 6 days old and she was, at that time, named as eventual queen. Her dad had never even laid eyes on her. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Time to sneak back into Scotland (the English didn't want her returning to be queen of Scotland.) Mary, by birth, also had a claim to the English throne, but that is a whole other story.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ROW ONE</b> of <b>"Mary's Flower Garden"</b> is all stitched up. Also, six new blocks to complete the row.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimaNKVC8rJD3KomQZUhm7XyXq1rhJnv9RV9Eo2JEedQp_9L0CZLLcJBaydamevwOql5HkJ_I9UmRw-VgfxmUdzDkLYAe3bRrf-M9zWRB0ocWCUze74iSChOmYXwjVPx8wRxk_3-F_YCTw/s2048/QM+-+1+row-w.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1124" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimaNKVC8rJD3KomQZUhm7XyXq1rhJnv9RV9Eo2JEedQp_9L0CZLLcJBaydamevwOql5HkJ_I9UmRw-VgfxmUdzDkLYAe3bRrf-M9zWRB0ocWCUze74iSChOmYXwjVPx8wRxk_3-F_YCTw/w220-h400/QM+-+1+row-w.JPG" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>French Marigold</b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqB7d_FBnq7U1_IgDuk_8daLYIlMHrQYe95Y3iKXElj-TiDfZFwrkXrN4z49LHacL25f-XOYHGnFvBdOm2Wu3qupjAp-m5kWc9D_nQHPFxW4xpU9JKcEyszMuVB4S39_wtwb9hIIdDfcM/s2048/%25281%2529+-+FRENCH+MARIGOLD-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqB7d_FBnq7U1_IgDuk_8daLYIlMHrQYe95Y3iKXElj-TiDfZFwrkXrN4z49LHacL25f-XOYHGnFvBdOm2Wu3qupjAp-m5kWc9D_nQHPFxW4xpU9JKcEyszMuVB4S39_wtwb9hIIdDfcM/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+FRENCH+MARIGOLD-w.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;">Bijou Watermelon</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImkn8ET4mmZIKgxzgDq39RTcv-zLjjpYk-o48Of3mRqYFtDiKzVf1SWyshGFT5bFc7tEsycT7HH3TSgSqOIhBeTlyz8Xuh3knX4tbOCmaKCMEwiLYofOiVzN04jpGREdUd1Hwlow7_U0/s2048/%25281%2529+-+BIJOU+WATERMELON-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImkn8ET4mmZIKgxzgDq39RTcv-zLjjpYk-o48Of3mRqYFtDiKzVf1SWyshGFT5bFc7tEsycT7HH3TSgSqOIhBeTlyz8Xuh3knX4tbOCmaKCMEwiLYofOiVzN04jpGREdUd1Hwlow7_U0/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+BIJOU+WATERMELON-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;">Scotch Thistle</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BnsYG36JIrAWzUzJFpfGe04LUCkjXOpZN7e_caXnAk3Gs2GJuouSeCCAF1tOA1D9KoHMhyy4QA0L7ZgvtAdnnhMrazWhb4JMKUOJwasJcKXPFAFaamCK01Tyaf8nhqkL5tyAZL3HK0M/s2048/%25281%2529+-+SCOTCH+THISTLE-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BnsYG36JIrAWzUzJFpfGe04LUCkjXOpZN7e_caXnAk3Gs2GJuouSeCCAF1tOA1D9KoHMhyy4QA0L7ZgvtAdnnhMrazWhb4JMKUOJwasJcKXPFAFaamCK01Tyaf8nhqkL5tyAZL3HK0M/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+SCOTCH+THISTLE-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some time ago, I made and installed a new and improved design wall downstairs near the quilt cave. BUT, I recently brought the two old, saved pieces of design wall (from our Michigan to Alabama move) up to our large bedroom. (I have started to take over the bedroom as well as the downstairs, ha!) I just stand them up wherever they are out of the way at the time (I keep moving them around the room).</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;">Golden Tulip</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY82Cr5w2DxVfK5Hh7ndjg_YR7ejbdlqwC_NPoNMEYkcX2C8TNsLqdcWTAuKZMdo0vDZCYBM2tavFeCbCiQkdGIdLO9R8M-2wL9eetk0K4E6vRU4jnxZAXEG7_Pacnwvpp_uppuXitXvA/s2048/%25281%2529+-+GOLDEN+TULIP-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY82Cr5w2DxVfK5Hh7ndjg_YR7ejbdlqwC_NPoNMEYkcX2C8TNsLqdcWTAuKZMdo0vDZCYBM2tavFeCbCiQkdGIdLO9R8M-2wL9eetk0K4E6vRU4jnxZAXEG7_Pacnwvpp_uppuXitXvA/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+GOLDEN+TULIP-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The husband is cool with this, unless the pieces are standing up against his bureau, the recliner, the TV, or the route to the kitchen. Nice guy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;">Moss Rose</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYkvDC1ndrSfxvtRXsldCliLcANQhl1i8i-9C63s2j0OvtX2Uco8tdFKZI77IRc82GvEfN-ftPMu3MAm2kvHsX2Ds4yEJz7NYIbZoJcRORETb0DtXVY-hGwdBnGjrBm1uKAt1DPTa-vs/s2048/%25281%2529+-+MOSS+ROSE-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYkvDC1ndrSfxvtRXsldCliLcANQhl1i8i-9C63s2j0OvtX2Uco8tdFKZI77IRc82GvEfN-ftPMu3MAm2kvHsX2Ds4yEJz7NYIbZoJcRORETb0DtXVY-hGwdBnGjrBm1uKAt1DPTa-vs/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+MOSS+ROSE-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Queen's Tea Rose</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrpENIsnTdfXGuqNDjdoWhWaAcMWwseT3sA8OEKxxU2xnfoBVHWGwStZferYaTgidrro_OIfyAXt4iBSbifK9pRNlNkmjxtnJuFR1L4S0blY55dWOQdC1J7nSkTQLDQ_r_xX-C8VPubo/s2048/%25281%2529+-+QUEEN%2527S+TEA+ROSE-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrpENIsnTdfXGuqNDjdoWhWaAcMWwseT3sA8OEKxxU2xnfoBVHWGwStZferYaTgidrro_OIfyAXt4iBSbifK9pRNlNkmjxtnJuFR1L4S0blY55dWOQdC1J7nSkTQLDQ_r_xX-C8VPubo/w320-h400/%25281%2529+-+QUEEN%2527S+TEA+ROSE-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span><i><b>Millifiore Peony</b> was blogged on 10/08/2020.</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's really starting to get fun and ever-so-much-more motivating to see it all coming together! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Having to walk by (or trip over) the boards all the time reminds me that I should be putting Mary ahead of housework, etc.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The 16th century embroidered pieces and collections of slips were worked butted up against each other on a single piece of waste canvas to be lifted and appliqued on clothing, extensive bedding, etc. Therefore, the multi-slip, possibly unfinished pieces could have been small wall hangings, incomplete and waiting for borders. To me, this is unlikely. Why cram them together? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even the slips of the first example are kind of close together. The next two, with the repeated pears and blue flowers, seem to be worked lifting and applying to some kind of soft furnishing. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I guess everyone who inked the images on waste canvas had a different idea.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nL-QpqReCVrRocFbkxuo4XOIjmC4qmoqek95jBr6drAdIjR5nU5TiCX7P0VyfyH-KOEpR27dqtk7SD-KmoxdiFPC5DGwSoMXf3OhdxrNnIOOe7fnZn1UCfFgqtZpLuJiFa9hEnBzQ08/s448/slip+-+4+flowers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="448" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nL-QpqReCVrRocFbkxuo4XOIjmC4qmoqek95jBr6drAdIjR5nU5TiCX7P0VyfyH-KOEpR27dqtk7SD-KmoxdiFPC5DGwSoMXf3OhdxrNnIOOe7fnZn1UCfFgqtZpLuJiFa9hEnBzQ08/w400-h130/slip+-+4+flowers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4o-Jha05lyIdR1g66IYYL5BXW3F-iT8ud1HYgT0Gp4yEq3Hqn7C7yDzo1wsmZ_Qi-oMoIE3stLXmg0h803fjh1OPqP63KY5DAvzpQL2lhh82rge0QLm7q38xH_iPKBuujmS4SL0lUqcs/s765/IMG_1457.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="383" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4o-Jha05lyIdR1g66IYYL5BXW3F-iT8ud1HYgT0Gp4yEq3Hqn7C7yDzo1wsmZ_Qi-oMoIE3stLXmg0h803fjh1OPqP63KY5DAvzpQL2lhh82rge0QLm7q38xH_iPKBuujmS4SL0lUqcs/w320-h640/IMG_1457.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcCQvO49LRMOVzBJloMGxVGxUyBPYY6LiQkB0aJWfSFstUKHqkyF51TktECSz-XQK9w9BcsXWL5CdsTBWCReN4xtK9ZkibQfyfJvz4c2Vm3yevQlhqqBghW6aPIfczDV-Zp41OQli3ks/s278/c8e4ef4c0df87244c17e74b924c944dc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="278" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcCQvO49LRMOVzBJloMGxVGxUyBPYY6LiQkB0aJWfSFstUKHqkyF51TktECSz-XQK9w9BcsXWL5CdsTBWCReN4xtK9ZkibQfyfJvz4c2Vm3yevQlhqqBghW6aPIfczDV-Zp41OQli3ks/w400-h260/c8e4ef4c0df87244c17e74b924c944dc.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The multiple directions of slips or "little flowers" pictured below show its probable future of utility purpose.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuQfftAe7SxHnU0ZHXwm_Kw8aUENoNANX5SMJErr-I94tRRbJQtY4YNhUEYFpQ3r40QR0hgIsT4HicZIvR9_yI-Ph09dQaUkPTglChC37X2nvUeBpblDhu5rTlMXa0NSLUsQR8tu3Dyk/s1049/Scan_20180826+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="1049" height="517" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuQfftAe7SxHnU0ZHXwm_Kw8aUENoNANX5SMJErr-I94tRRbJQtY4YNhUEYFpQ3r40QR0hgIsT4HicZIvR9_yI-Ph09dQaUkPTglChC37X2nvUeBpblDhu5rTlMXa0NSLUsQR8tu3Dyk/w640-h517/Scan_20180826+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The motifs were worked this way to save canvas and make it possible to work them comfortably using a hoop in the lap rather then a floor frame. This made it easier to gather in little groups and enjoy castle gossip and rumors/stories of intrigues.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLD0sqBVtWgp_rJMP7afUOa2ImKcuWHEHAKh-O7RpE0vaRmvSkisdKp1lDZQI5RwFi6iUvoQNy4LBmTXJC8TGCraKJAj7Fg0y1FtzINa0cAjCFfmJuOCUZKOFAy4EZiY1jxDgDS-GjEJc/s225/d491d8a3c805adf4998a1c3d0871ef4e.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLD0sqBVtWgp_rJMP7afUOa2ImKcuWHEHAKh-O7RpE0vaRmvSkisdKp1lDZQI5RwFi6iUvoQNy4LBmTXJC8TGCraKJAj7Fg0y1FtzINa0cAjCFfmJuOCUZKOFAy4EZiY1jxDgDS-GjEJc/w400-h400/d491d8a3c805adf4998a1c3d0871ef4e.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Some lifted slips...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_3dc6JnQdBmkQ45DJRuYVFj1XWkGkfqv2byFBoqxEeieB7sK-NkicQOS6YKdEtGfHY7fxD4v3vnqlcXo44pH17IiC_NvLb3H7u9aLAPOkTStfRatEHrYvkA-innoOkMYA0Evz5BOpAQ/s1024/IMG_1443.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="712" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_3dc6JnQdBmkQ45DJRuYVFj1XWkGkfqv2byFBoqxEeieB7sK-NkicQOS6YKdEtGfHY7fxD4v3vnqlcXo44pH17IiC_NvLb3H7u9aLAPOkTStfRatEHrYvkA-innoOkMYA0Evz5BOpAQ/w444-h640/IMG_1443.JPG" width="444" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Gossipers...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RrdpvSHngzPTknciC759XUWWCHqTv5As47onMjdmDlzUP6MNxmEic4ncLhRa2P6JOxcvsdq9t5utOyYY4tSMl_WOKAm00EDS7-nU4-L3XadivSNGO0BQacUZ7q9g6mdI4uN4AFRqfuA/s564/7c6b356f53f9613a54f2ab970fc19374.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RrdpvSHngzPTknciC759XUWWCHqTv5As47onMjdmDlzUP6MNxmEic4ncLhRa2P6JOxcvsdq9t5utOyYY4tSMl_WOKAm00EDS7-nU4-L3XadivSNGO0BQacUZ7q9g6mdI4uN4AFRqfuA/s320/7c6b356f53f9613a54f2ab970fc19374.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Motifs were trimmed close enough to have just a thread or so to attach it to a larger expanse of cloth, as for bed curtains. Decorative threads were satin-stitched over the motif edges to keep them in place...some with metallic thread. Due to bulk of huge background, it was still probably tedious to apply the motifs, but much easier than working the intricate little slips on the huge expanses of fabric.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Background fabric was usually heavy wool or velvet. Stony Scottish castles are damp, drafty, and cold!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfq_2CdE2V3vIEMgebj-75yNihzPV-_FNxBb78Nx54jnVce2d30DxsH48Ae36QsR0OhB9etdJpb5khlGg9v9s5WGKPTJF3ZsSIuwyqUIfm_HWngmbaLBR_oVSlZbO7DJ4gJgoJ5WE9N0/s2048/IMG_0168.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1422" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfq_2CdE2V3vIEMgebj-75yNihzPV-_FNxBb78Nx54jnVce2d30DxsH48Ae36QsR0OhB9etdJpb5khlGg9v9s5WGKPTJF3ZsSIuwyqUIfm_HWngmbaLBR_oVSlZbO7DJ4gJgoJ5WE9N0/w278-h400/IMG_0168.JPEG" width="278" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(The caption above attributes Mary as the actual maker and talks about the "little flowers," or slips.)</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Riley came home from Atlanta for a couple of days at Thanksgiving. We were distanced and not hugging (frowny face), and she insisted that we wear masks the whole time (she's afraid she is going to kill her old parents). </i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKR-YhuzJBCOCBdYVbjFW4o2Z2EpnMrp49BXx71TFpgLsE2qju-MzxQvz-XLr1EjzlGbhFkMfNPNwDG45QtTqZl5fbYU-a6Cx1fOJ_6n88CZuB94LZoBY5r5by14iuy_fNqVhZnXum54/s2048/Xmas+2020+-+52+cropped+best+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="2048" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKR-YhuzJBCOCBdYVbjFW4o2Z2EpnMrp49BXx71TFpgLsE2qju-MzxQvz-XLr1EjzlGbhFkMfNPNwDG45QtTqZl5fbYU-a6Cx1fOJ_6n88CZuB94LZoBY5r5by14iuy_fNqVhZnXum54/w400-h219/Xmas+2020+-+52+cropped+best+2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>(will most likely be our Christmas card picture...second chin tucks right in there and my Covid-19 moustache/beard is hidden)</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>I will, most likely, mentally associate every individual block I've stitched on this "Mary" project since February with a movie or TV show (including episode, mind you.) Thank you Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Do you do that? I usually remember a general period of time with a quilt, but this is excessive!</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Carve out some December for yourself! I am, come Hell or high water.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-4115242371146857312020-10-10T06:00:00.054-05:002022-03-07T21:31:29.241-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Blocks 21, 22, 23<div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wCa9RAQbCt13Gpx_LDTaG1DdPIoXEsN_d-CnxEMk2CswwBjowmeWWr8_rz3tKXNqiaeXLVxc4xAzqjVfheFAbPcZfsyp30I21s1bdUw1d4dCm2v6mBmy8SvRYuGJxJeOI7wcLzbpThE/s468/Mary+53.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="429" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wCa9RAQbCt13Gpx_LDTaG1DdPIoXEsN_d-CnxEMk2CswwBjowmeWWr8_rz3tKXNqiaeXLVxc4xAzqjVfheFAbPcZfsyp30I21s1bdUw1d4dCm2v6mBmy8SvRYuGJxJeOI7wcLzbpThE/w366-h400/Mary+53.JPG" width="366" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary Queen of Scots, in a dress that I frankly don't understand, LOL. What's with the lace, seemingly attached to nothing?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">More <b>QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN</b> blocks! I'm on a roll now.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Bhagwa Pomegranite</b></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLjxf94D2Loq6H1ItQ4wFTZsrRmezYYRKdA8r7XYeYPfD6rnShpXrSw9J-CD_9Ai6XwUNCATNiFqlUcy1aiE9LWxBde4OkEtx3e4XABXpq8rD4CPqqe5625OVVNFGkyOfC9Okemhdvh4/s2048/21+-+BHAGWA+POMEGRANATE+-+w.jpg" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1636" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLjxf94D2Loq6H1ItQ4wFTZsrRmezYYRKdA8r7XYeYPfD6rnShpXrSw9J-CD_9Ai6XwUNCATNiFqlUcy1aiE9LWxBde4OkEtx3e4XABXpq8rD4CPqqe5625OVVNFGkyOfC9Okemhdvh4/w319-h400/21+-+BHAGWA+POMEGRANATE+-+w.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Crab Lily</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1706" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVHNcSPhYp0-LQRULkAavbwhTlTPCsQIPQpLEpECSCAPEYeFQYEp_L6QTTJ9BEY5TEpInFvmhC2dzwEk9n4rU1edlYAXdX5-4YRytNi4nuDG1Qytd6wg_F6RHmKk4p3Hpe1VYPiTX4XCs/w333-h400/22+-+CRAB+LILY+-+w.jpg" width="333" /></div><span><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><b><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Bearss Lime</span></b></div></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1673" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Gq8wh8mmrcTATR1pTFONYflLBNHC2xYwwpZ9DBXZuRhuyp99Z7mIZjAajZicCjgJ9cs-Rs9yzf89iG2RHxmgoJ91uBCka9JG0LzyCVEmGLzNN-LKyskM1EB59bIW1RNg2kR8PcJ-IXs/w327-h400/23+-+BEARSS+LIME+-++.jpg" width="327" /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It feels good to to finish so many blocks lately. I'm working on finalizing the design for a border. Getting that narrowed down has given me some momentum on the blocks. Yahoo!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm trying to carve out sewing time FIRST, which is hard to do. Putting on proverbial blinders is currently working. Again, yahoo!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa :o)</span></p>Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-65973827106864090412020-10-08T15:12:00.016-05:002022-03-07T21:32:31.552-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" © 2019 - Blocks 18, 19, 20<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJN6JzAllhVSRmKW8T3LtO0ovzgYyqhv9xZEGH3ZBg6DOPIBnALgh9oNWkzzuFVIEk47z8HaSWaYuS7N8zTqsuAMoGPWUOA5y0Xi0YUHcgyuKmbrZxkNJXD8BeNZ84rzuS3YJcUWWy8A/s270/baby+mary.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="186" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJN6JzAllhVSRmKW8T3LtO0ovzgYyqhv9xZEGH3ZBg6DOPIBnALgh9oNWkzzuFVIEk47z8HaSWaYuS7N8zTqsuAMoGPWUOA5y0Xi0YUHcgyuKmbrZxkNJXD8BeNZ84rzuS3YJcUWWy8A/w276-h400/baby+mary.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Baby Mary Queen of Scots</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">More blocks from my <b>QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN</b> project! 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<span style="font-size: medium;"><font>After Mary's marriage to Francis, Dauphin of </font><font>France, she was not just Queen of Scotland, she was the French Dauphiness. The depiction of Mary, above, contains the symbols of both Scotland and France. Crests of each country appeared on linens, silver, banners, tapestries, etc.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4">It was the beginning of a new wave of creativity in France due to the influence of the Italian Renaissance. This was helped along by Queen Catherine de Medici, of Italian descent.</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img alt="." src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5f/58/02/5f5802772e12b7528d6c1871dbbb5f09.jpg" style="font-size: xx-large;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4">New design was partially influenced by recently published Italian books of natural history. These books were based on scientific observation of plants and animals, rather than on the myths of the Middle Ages. The books contained realistic pictures made from woodcuts. Frenchmen followed with similar efforts published in French.</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="6"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="6"><img alt="." src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b9/fb/52/b9fb52a425de32b4df449913e48ca4d3.jpg" /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Only a year or so after Frances and Mary's wedding, Henry II's (father to Frances), died a tragic and premature death. Frances would ascend to the throne of France when of age, with his mother, Catherine de Medici named Regent until he was of age.</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4">The year 1560 continued to provide sorrow for Mary. Her mother, Regent of Scotland, died leaving Scotland's future in limbo. Then, at the end of the year, Mary's frail husband died of a chill following hunting.</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="6"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: large;"> Marie de Guise, Mary's mother</b></div></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="6"><img alt="Circle of Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, 1500–1575), "Portrait of Marie de Guise," about 1550, oil on panel, 5-1/2 × 4-1/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Clowes Collection, 2017.88." height="400" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/fa/7b/b6/fa7bb6ab196cbb6486f55bdf28fb63d8.jpg" title="Marie de Guise, Mary's mother" width="347" /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4">Francis's younger brother, Charles IX, would be become king of France when older, with his mother Catherine maintaining the Regency until he was old enough. </font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4">After Henry II's premature death, Catherine became the Dowager Queen of France. Now, following the death of Frances, Mary also gained that title of Dowager Queen. </font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Two Dowager Queens.</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Mary could have stayed in France at this time, but decided to return home to Scotland.</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks for your patience...it is all coming together now!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay safe out there.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Teresa :o)</span></div>
Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-872823735753319002020-05-18T14:04:00.024-05:002020-12-24T06:51:35.706-06:00Embarrassingly brown thumb and a goat bedtime story and cartoon montage...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span>With much kindness and deep appreciation of your sincerity, I laughed so hard when I saw that some of you thought I actually grow produce right now! Actually my husband was laughing harder, and I (acting like he had hurt my feelings), was nearly peeing my pants from laughing on the inside. </span><br />
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<span>I can grow blueberries, tons of them. Too many years invested in their establishment. We even have some pears and the occasional persimmon, if the deer don't get them...or hobo goats.</span><br /></span>
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If you are near, COME PICK SOME in about 3 weeks!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I go and buy three or four cases of greenish bananas on Wednesday mornings to donate to the Food bank. That's what we are spending that government check until/if Steve is laid off and we need it.</span><br />
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<span>My father had established a practically deer-proof garden plot years ago. It was for vegetables, constructed using tall dog kennel panels. He was a busy doctor, but still took time to grow squash, okra, and string beans. He had a green thumb, but no time. Those veg choices are hardy here, even with random care.</span><br />
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<span>My grandparents had amazing gardens and orchards...they completely lived on the land (they also had a small herd of beef cows for some of their meat). Granddaddy taught Vocational Agriculture at the local county high school. </span><br />
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<span>Their gardening magic didn't wear off on me, though I spent hours and hours helping them when visiting. I helped weed, pick, peel, pare, snap, pickle, blanch, and freeze/can. </span><br />
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<span>I also learned how to sun dry apple slices on a scrap piece of corrugated barn roofing sheet metal on the bed of an old pick-up truck out back. How about that. (My Grandmother made the BEST hand pies from these, year round.)</span><br />
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<span>Anyway, I wish I had a "before" picture of the enclosure. I was really embarrassed of it's state of being...how many of us take pictures to intentionally share honest pictures of things that shame us? Having a garden is not at the top of the to-do list. And the wild stuff slowly continued to grow.</span><br />
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<span>No matter how hard I work, it always seems like I am chasing something beyond my ability. The enclosure is completely grown over with volunteer trees, large bushes, wild blackberry vines, huge thorn vines, honeysuckle, wild grapevine, etc. Vines are even weaving in and out of the chain link panels.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lovely.<br />
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<span>On a side note, stop reading right now if you don't like a good hobo goat bedtime story from last June-July...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Hobo goats are one of the uninvited scourges of rural living. There is a U-shaped end of our valley (with a sheer, rocky, 30-ft drop between our property and some goats). That means, there are two 30-ft drops between us and neighbors "across the holler."</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A big, bad Billy from "over thar" escaped with four nannies in tow. They actually went down the far side and up on this side. I don't know how.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> saw the goats here off and on for almost two weeks before I decided they weren't leaving. Of course Steve was up north with his dad for several weeks. I put some poster signs out at the main road with my phone number. Since I wasn't trying to shoot them, they obviously took that as a welcome mat and felt at home despite my metal pot and spoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>A neighbor (of a girlfriend, of a sister, of a guy's sister-in-law) saw the poster and called the "owner," Mike. After a week of the goats missing, he had figured a wolf or a bob cat had gotten to them and he had stopped looking.</span><br />
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<span>Even though we are close "as the crow flies," by pick-up truck it is a little of a drive. I don't think it occurred to him that Billy would lead his harem over to our side of the mountain.</span><br />
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<span>Billy was a big, tall, old fool. He knocked fruit off the trees for his four girlfriends.</span><br />
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<span>We had a few, poorly-producing blueberry bushes that my parents had planted twenty years ago. They were planted too near the house before a surrounding tree canopy grew. Those idiot hobos ate those struggling berry bushes to the ground.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">THANK GOD they did not wander too far from the house. They didn't find the blueberry orchard. As it was July, fortunately the fruit season was mostly over, but my orchard would still look delicious to the four-legged invaders. I'd want to eat those bushes...</span><br />
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<span>I thought I was going to have to camp out there, 24/7, with my metal pot, spoon...and bug spray.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>My out-of-state BIL has a high-powered rifle locked in a gun safe in our closet. I have no desire to use it and don't even know how to load it (do we even have ammo?!?).</span><br />
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<span>Mike said I should have shot the Billy. I could never have done that, and if so, then what? I would need even more therapy and the nannies would probably still be here for a while.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Mike came back with his uncle (Darby). Turns out Darby was a good friend of my Dad's who happens to be the only person I know here. It seems like everyone is related to everyone around here. It's a long way from Ann Arbor. </span><br />
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<span>They tried everything over another three or so weeks to pen them. The nannies did what Billy did, and Billy was having no part of it. </span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Mike's fence was inadequate...made to be temporary, it was mostly made from a single electric fence wire. Mike didn't baby them at all, like Darby. The five goats were put on chains attached to a concrete block periodically to eat the undergrowth on Mike's new house site. He didn't live near this site. Wouldn't you want to be free?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Mike locally worked 12-hr shifts in town during the the day. Making this plan work relied on me, @$+*&$. So much time wasted. Too dirty outside to stitch.</span><br />
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<span>Then I tried parking the little RTV truck in the shade near the garden opening and sat in a chair on the hidden side. </span><br />
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<span>I sang. They LOVED that!</span><br />
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<span>But, those dumb asses sneaked up to get close enough to me to lie down on the other side of the RTV, no more than 8-10 feet away from me. The minute I even twitched, they ran. Then they would slowly come back. This went on for a while. The singing would really calm them...until I moved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I started with nursery tunes I had used to soothe Riley, favorite songs, and hymn tunes. As I got madder, I started making up cruel, offensive, profanity lyrics to the same tunes (sorry Lord Jesus, Amen). The men thought the goats would get calm enough to follow the trail of goat kibble that led to the food troughs in the fence. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was doubtful...the goats were full of pears at this point.</span><br />
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<span>I wasted so much time out there, sitting in the shade, pinning on Pinterest, and singing. Then Mike suggested I go to the other end, outside the fence (in the sun), and sing. I would have liked to suggest a few things to him!</span><br />
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<span>They came AROUND the enclosure and stayed close for the second half of the concert. I went inside and got out of the sun. </span><br />
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<span>FINALLY, Darby, who had loaned Mike the nannies, stepped up his game. Mike had gotten the Billy for free. Go figure.</span><br />
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<span>The nannies were pretty tame with Darby, and even though being wild for 4-5 weeks, he thought he could lead them into the garden, dropping some fruit while trying to coax them.</span><br />
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<span>The idea was that Billy would want to be with his girlfriends.</span><br />
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<span>With some effort, we got the nannies in the fence, practically in the dark, and into a trailer that Mike had parked inside the garden. The idea was that Billy would hear them complain and and go through the small slit in the fence to check things out inside. I sneaked out later and closed the gate on him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I hope Billy's harassed new owner doesn't live near Colbert County! ("as is, no-o-o-o refunds")</span><br />
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<span>See how life has been interrupting my stitching and blogging time since I have moved from Ann Arbor, LOL? Geesh!</span><br />
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<span>Stay safe...and watch out for hobo goats!</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">In stitches,<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It's an ugly span right now in our present day history. So today I am sticking my head into pretty sand and sharing some more of my plans of a flower garden I am planting for Queen Mary. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The late 16th century and life were constantly filled with threats of violence, war, uncertainty of extended family relations, politics, scheming, intrigue...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">If you are a lover and/or a reader of history, you've probably found that stupid humans don't learn from the past and are doomed to make the same dumb mistakes over and over. If history is scrubbed from school curricula and textbooks, we are screwed as a species.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I am finding this is definitely true as I read about Mary Queen of Scots. Discord is caused by differences of opinion/belief and the fear of being forced to live by those "other" beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Then there is the additional problem of fear of the "other" leading to the need to vanquish that "other."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This scenario is a basic human flaw ad nauseum throughout our history. Even if 99% of a population decides to live and govern with tolerance, acceptance, and trust, it just takes one dumb jerk to speak out against the "other" to raise the fear factor and screw things up royally (you know who you are, English men that lived in the late 1550's).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">OK, enter the royals. At the time of the birth of Mary Queen of Scots, there was a great Protestant movement (John Knox and Calvinism) in England. England had been Catholic until the current king, Henry the VIII, was looking for a way to ditch wives without having them beheaded. This move to Protestantism was in discord with the Catholic neighbors, France and Scotland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Scotland, trying to live independently, was very unhappy by England's interference and attempts to control the Scots. Scotland, England, and France had always lived in a precarious accord for a long time...meanwhile, important marriages were being arranged among the ruling families of all three countries to maintain peace, and in most cases, float a false sense of security and safety.</span></div>
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Mary as a toddler, already in the French royal nursery.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The similarity of the names and the tangled web of advantageous marriages among the royal and noble families between the three countries makes understanding what was going on at the time nearly impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There were too many little royal/noble children predominantly named Catherine, Anne, James, Henry, Mary, Edward, Elizabeth, Frances, and Charles. Very confusing, even when actually studying the charts of lines of succession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>It was advantageous, in their planning at the time, to have these </span><span>woven, i</span><span>nternational, </span><span>marital unions for state stability.</span><span> BUT, once a conflict got sparked by one little insult or false move, it became a regional problem, not just a situation between two countries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">While squabbling, distracted regions become vulnerable to outside interest/attack...and thus the cycle continues. Yawn. Here we go again. Dumb humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Mary was born as her father, King James V of Scotland, died suddenly (some say mysteriously) at age thirty. She essentially became "Queen" of Scotland when only six days old. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Shortly after, she was crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age. After much ado, her mother, Marie de Guise, became Regent of Scotland and ruled Scotland in Mary's place until the day Mary was old enough to take the throne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Mary was sent to the court of France to live in the Royal Nursery. It was hard for Mary and her mother to be apart. Marie de Guise needed to stay in Scotland, as there was religious/political turmoil encouraged by the Protestant, John Knox and followers. Letters have been found between the two women that are sweet and painful. It was a hardship, especially for Marie, Mary's mother, to live through the separation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As a result of the conflict, Mary was banned from traveling through England to get to Scotland for visits. It was dangerous for Mary to take a longer route to visit Scotland, even though she was essentially queen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Also, Mary was to be groomed as the betrothed bride of the son of the King of France...she was to be fluent in French, finished, and encouraged not to speak her course-sounding Scottish brogue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This is when the "four Maries" came to her in France...these close young ladies/friends came from Scotland and were sent to a convent for a period of time...to tame them, somewhat.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They learned to speak French and had the rough Scottish brogue smoothed. Then, they joined Mary at the French court. There they learned fine embroidery from a certain Abbey where the sisters were the most proficient in the craft fine stitches. They also learned proper lady-like horse riding, behavior of ladies in the French court, and shared palace secrets. They became Mary's life-long friends and inner circle until she died..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Previously, England and Scotland had entered a period of peace, proposed by Henry the VIII of England. This agreement was never really finalized though (religious tensions were building). Some fighting continued between England and Scotland in a small part of Mary's homeland. England had wanted Mary betrothed to King Henry's son and raised in London, as a Protestant. Of course, this was worrisome to Scotland...and France. An alignment with France, also Catholic, had been considered by Scotland as their only way to hold England off and protect Scotland's sovereignty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Marie de Guise's French family was very close to the royal family of France. With a marital union, certainly the French would come to Scotland's aid. After all, Mary would be queen in both Scotland and France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This was a very happy time for little Mary. The French court was brilliant and gay, she had lots of royal cousins, and learned languages, riding, embroidery, games, etc. She was a favorite among her cousins as well as her French uncles, Marie's brothers, and the court. This 'Royal Nursery' would travel around with the court to various homes of the crown. Due to her intelligence and disposition (and young age), Mary's uncles would encourage her to speak out and have opinions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Usually a Dauphin would marry out of his country, in the homeland of his betrothed. As Mary had been raised in the French court, it was a huge celebration for the country to host the wedding. The pomp and importance was increased due to the fact that she was already Queen of Scotland at this time (with her mother as Regent). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is noted that she "floated in white satin and lots of diamonds" on her wedding day, April 24, 1558 at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. She was sixteen years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I am still stewing over the proper setting and border(s) for this project! I have narrowed down the options, but still pondering. </span><br />
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<span>I'm leaning toward no sashing, like the original tapestry, but maybe a little more distance between the blocks. I always do my applique blocks with an over-sized background piece, so I do have a little wiggle room for my final decision.</span><br />
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<span>Keep up the social distancing out there and stay safe! Living out in the middle of nowhere, we unfortunately always do this. It is nice to now have a name for our way of life, ha ha.</span><br />
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Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-83125284232767138712020-04-30T16:45:00.004-05:002020-12-17T22:47:41.992-06:00As if my days needed to be s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out anymore...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The slow boat from China finally got to the USA, so I have elastic! I have managed to make a little dent in the spool since it arrived.</span><br />
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<span>Each week seems like a month for me...anyone else? It's not that I am bored. There is certainly plenty to do. I am stuck in slow motion and the earth seems to be spinning slower. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I even made a couple of science-ish masks for myself. And, one with a dark blue background and a flowery print. That is going to be the one I use when I mow all these acres every week! Hopefully wearing it will help with dust and allergies...and be stylish at the same time (and hide dirt/sweat.)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I mailed out 72 of these yesterday to my extensive family, and kept a few for us.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I still have about 6 more to make in this round, then I can blog about Queen Mary for a while. I have more blocks finished!</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I have not bought novelty prints in a while, but I am finding that I wish a had bought more than a FQ with some of the ones I like the most.</span><br />
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<span>(Wow! I REALLY need to re-cover my pressing board...that is embarrassing! I tried to cover up the the more disgusting areas with masks.)</span><br />
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Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-88957115594566725552020-04-14T14:19:00.008-05:002020-12-17T22:47:56.933-06:00Leaving the 1600's for a crucial 21st century project...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span>I decided to make some fabric masks for my daughter, her two roommates, and my beloved, feisty aunt. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Protecting the Riley's roommates protects my daughter (and, I love her roommates!).</span><br />
<span><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's just say that a handful of masks became 91 really fast...family, family, family.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">So, I decided to make the masks with crazy, cheerful, novelty fabrics. I went on Pinterest and found, and read, a few of the mask-making free tutorials. The one I decided on required a main fabric and a coordinating strip.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Well, I forgot the first rule for tutorials, or really anything.</span><br />
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<span><b>Don't cut out 60 sets of fabrics for projects/blocks without making one first.</b> It may be inaccurate or not be a good approach for you.</span><br />
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<span>Trying to make the main part was not that bad, but then there were the short strips that were to go on the pleated edges (to be turned and flipped to the back while securing the elastic).</span><br />
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<span>It looked like crap. Layers were too thick for adding the strip and all top stitching was impossible. I was even using my Featherweight, which can sew through a motor boat.</span><br />
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<span>There had to be a better way. I sort of came up with an easier way, but checked out Pinterest to see if anyone was doing it my way...not really.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Originally I really enjoyed matching up scrappy strips with my larger rectangles. It is always enjoyable to jump into a pile of really fun fabrics and match things up, thinking about the fabric theme and </span><span>personality of the recipient.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Now I have the unused matching scrappy strips. No problem. I went through all my little folded mask rectangles and removed those tucked-in coordinating strips. I ended up with this pile, which isn't a bad thing. I love scrappy projects.</span><br /><br />
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Disaster number two.</b> I only had enough 1/8 or 1/4 elastic for a dozen masks. I went on Amazon, JoAnn's, Michaels, Craft Direct, Nancy's Notions, Google...there was none anywhere in this country until the end of April (I ordered a big spool weeks ago).</span><br />
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<span>Apparently in addition to not making enough PPE and ventilators in this country, we don't make elastic anymore. My huge spool is coming from China. America's manufacturing is messed up!</span><br />
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<span>Judging from the number of Etsy sellers offering masks and the stories/blog posts about volunteering to make masks, I can see why there is no elastic in the USA! I wonder where they are getting their elastic?</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">I wish I hoarded dress-making materials like I hoard fabric.<br />
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<span>I had also planned to make these for all my siblings and their families, planning two masks for each person (wash one, while wearing other). They were also in sorted and labeled into piles, ready for a couple of good DVDs and a lot of chain piecing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Anyway, I continued with my first dozen, three a piece, turning under the ends, marking and pinning the pleats, tucking in elastic, and top stitching the whole thing. It worked pretty well!</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I hope I get faster with the remaining eighty-seven!</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span>Stay safe!</span><br />
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<span>In stitches, </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Teresa :o)</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i>On another thread...</i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i><span>My Aunt Katrina is 91 and acts like 70 or less. She drives, mows, does yard work, and she is used to getting out and going anywhere she wants (usually in her sporty little Mazda Miata). </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>She is totally behaving herself, though. She is my hero and my last "parent." I love her so much, and I am so glad she's being a good girl.</span><br /></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i><span><br /></span></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i><span>My daughter and her two roommies are trapped in their apartment in Atlanta. Riley is laid off, Katharina was working from home (now back at a law office), and Joe kept his chef job at a pizza place 4 nights a week, but currently acts as indoor host for pick up.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>I worry about K and J going out to work and bringing virus home. They have been taking turns going out and foraging for toilet paper and groceries, so basically once every three weeks.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>I wanted Riley to just come home to Yeldell, but she wanted to stay with her buds. They have been cooking together (and learning so much from each other, which is awesome!) and catching up with a lot of TV series/movies. Then there's the online D & D with friends...NERDS! And ZOOM gatherings...I need to catch up with the new technology.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>I don't think they thought they would be doing social distancing and being so careful for so long.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>I think Riley is afraid at this point she would come home and infect her old parents (65 and 59). She is almost overly careful, which I am glad of.</span></i></span></div>
Teresa Rawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198469746467771421noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8547359357445201023.post-24714666118655940582020-03-22T06:00:00.012-05:002020-12-23T14:42:23.023-06:00"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN" - BLOCKS 8, 9, 10, 11...fake names and false claims...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Yes! More blocks for <b>"QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN."</b> It has been fun cranking up the brain and thinking about all this again. It's amazing what the brain can do during long car trips.</span><br />
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<span>I mean, we are all on some degree of house arrest with this horrible Covid 19 virus. It gives me an excuse to ponder the important things in life...</span><span>like, what the heck is up with the flora nomenclature in early 17th century stitchery?!?<br /></span>
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<span>I look through the motifs above and there are definitely things I recognize, like tulips, daisies, lilies, and pears. But then there are some completely wacko flower items.</span><br />
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<span>I read that even though the "Herbals" were being illustrated and published at the end of the 1500's, early entries weren't in color and perhaps not quite true representations of shapes and attributes.</span><br />
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<span>Then, of course, the man whose job it was to draw the thin, black outlines on the canvases for Mary, et.al. might not have been completely accurate in his interpretation. These black and white pen and ink drawings were adapted by him for the embroidery canvases. There were men like this working with circles of royalty and noblewomen all over England and Europe, and they had their own discerning eyes and imagination as well. </span><br />
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<span>The following is what Mary and her merry stitching group had to work with (the heavy lines are already covered/outline-stitched in black, thinner ones are inked and ready to stitch).</span><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>It was probably just like getting a coloring book and a 64-count box of unused Crayola's (with a sharpener)! Yahoo - lets make up some flowers!</span><br />
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<span>And certainly Queen Mary, her close ladies of the Court, and attendants were not familiar with many of the flowers depicted on the waste cloth. The herbalists sketched plants and flowers from many places, not just Scotland.</span><br />
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<span>When they tent-stitched the flowers, more often than not they picked colored silks that they liked or what would fit well with colors nearby, not what actually appeared in nature. And the blooms with which they weren't familiar just gave them more license to use any color desired.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sometimes the canvas engraver would paint areas he thought needed to be certain, perhaps in graded colors for shadowing. Not saying the ladies followed these suggestions...<br />
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<span>Well, I thought that I would be really smart and try to identify all the fruits and flowers and get the colors as accurate as possible. Well, you can guess how that went.</span><br />
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<span>Inspiration for these four blocks...</span></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I had no idea about this first one. I looked online trying to find out what it was and failed. Then, of course, being frustrated, I changed the color to something I really liked to make me feel better and made up a name (blue is my favorite color - not enough blue flowers in nature).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Baby Blue Eye</span></b></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>So, the Genie is out of the bottle, my friends. I felt free/justified to just start making things up...even names. I decided that even though there aren't tiny leaves drawn at the base of every bud, I would name it with a real flower's nickname, hoping that the bud looks like this? Absolutely crazy.</span><br />
<span><br /></span><span>I was really close on naming the next one; blossoms were right, but then the leaves didn't match up. Oh well, I'm still calling it a daisy. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Marguerite Daisy</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Then heck, I thought I recognized pears (although the ones on this stitchery looked a little too much like boobies). I redesigned the pears, brightened up the drab colors with unnatural blue blossoms, and noticed, again, the leaves weren't correct.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">So now I just don't care. In Michigan I had some little dwarf lilies like the next one, but my leaves were blade-shaped. Meh...I call it a lily.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Little Dwarf Lily</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I did a great deal of "research" today (wink, wink), and I have come up with real names/varieties and nicknames or completely made-up nonsense. Oh, it took thought...I had to pick names that would work in the early 1600's (no "Georgia Peaches"). I tried to pick varieties that grew in Scotland, Britain, France, Spain, or Italy...not easy to do since some motifs are tropical, and unspoiled shipping was impossible from tropical growing regions.</span><br />
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<span>So now I finally have 52 names. Some are completely crappy names, but it was a fun exercise either way. I have gone back and named the other 7 blocks you've seen...enjoy the nonsense where it happens...it will most likely only increase from now on.</span><br />
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<span>I'll never tell.</span><br />
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On another thread, it is good to be home. Steve's Dad died, peacefully, nine days ago in PA. Late Stage Parkinson's is supposed to feel like being in a body that is becoming evermore rigid and entrapped, and accelerating. Swallowing became impossible, followed by the inability to get enough breath. Every time I would come home to AL for a few days, I would return to PA only to notice faster decline, which was really a blessing at that point. Thank God for morphine and the encompassing love of his three kids and spouses.<br />
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Getting ready for the auction, we found letters that had been saved (someday, our kids and grand kids will be presented with a flash drive containing our emails and passwords to our social media apps). We all read letters on our "shifts" and re-told funny times we all shared. Steve, David, and Sue saw a whole, beautiful side of their parents and grandparents they had never seen. Everyone got to share everything they wanted to say.<br />
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I missed that with my parents.<br />
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Then the virus emerged. I was supposed to drive from PA to Atlanta, picking up Steve from his pre-arranged flight, and we were to go our little actress daughter's opening of the play "Helvitica."<br />
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Well, he definitely wasn't going to fly, so we drove south together. The show closed before it ever opened. We were there on opening night, and they, quietly, did it for friends and family. It was so good! I feel so sad for them. Somehow, they videoed it the next day to stream on UTUBE, with permission from writers, etc. They all worked so hard, and this virus has hit a terrible blow to all small-venue arts all over this country. Really, to everyone in ways we have not thought of yet.<br />
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AND she got laid off, of course from her barista job at an ultra fancy dessert/coffee establishment ($15 per slice or serving of dessert, then there's the coffee). BUT, she is holed up with 2 roommates she loves, has provisions, and texted me today that 'she is constructing a new character for D and D gaming'. NERD!!<br />
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Her roomie Joe still has his job at a pizza place, for pick up only, for now. So, he brings home a pizza every now and then. They try out recipes, hold Katarina's emotional-support-cat, watch movies, etc. They understand how serious this all is...but they are just having a ball, in quarantine. Depending on age group, everyone will have different memories/experiences from these terrible times.<br />
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Memorial Service will be postponed for a few months...will have to go back for our tool auction and house emptying, but everything is off for now, so who knows.<br />
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Be safe out there and just treat it like a sewing retreat. If husband/family becomes a little much, just a fake cough or two...</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>She's still alive!!!</b> Not Mary Queen of Scots, but me! More on me later...</span><br />
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<span>I feel like I need to "reintroduce" my introduction to this current applique project, <b>"Queen Mary's Garden."</b> Just a quick recap of the first three posts.</span><br />
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<span>I am recreating an early 17th century embroidery piece into an applique quilt. The piece appears as motif blocks embroidered very close together, worked on loosely-woven waste canvas with a tent stitch (like modern day needlepoint.)</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>There is not even enough of a margin between the motifs to cut the "squares" apart. The ladies cut around all parts of the flowers, fruits, leaves, and stems (leaving just the barest amount to turn under). </span><br />
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<span>The motifs were then appliqued onto a larger fabric piece, often overworking the appliqued edges with more decorative embroidery stitches.</span><br />
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<span>These motifs were called "slips" due to the Herbals beginning to be published at that time. These books contained sketches and descriptions of herbs, flowers, plants, and trees. The "slip" is where the plant sample was cut from the plant, removing it before sketching. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Larger motifs were most likely applied to bed drapes, larger outer garments such as capes, and wall canvases. Small ones were used for garments and accessories.</span><br />
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<span>Ha! Applique! </span><br />
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<span>Even though the beautiful embroidered "sampler" I am using as inspiration appears planned as a wall hanging, experts are doubtful of that conclusion. The motifs are so close together, perhaps to make the size of the canvas smaller to fit on the frame. Also the outer edges are raw and there is no stitching covering the background waste canvas.</span><br />
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<span>Someone had the job of drawing representations of the sketches from the Herbals onto the waste canvas. He inked them on in black, then they were outlined in black silk </span><span>on the ink, and worked in colorful silks to fill. </span><br />
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<span>The early Herbals were black and white...ladies filled in colors that pleased, not necessarily colors that were actually biologically accurate.</span></span><br /><br />
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Lighter lines are ink, darker lines are silk stitched.</b></span></div>
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Whole piece. Notice there are extra flowers crammed into empty spaces.</b></span></div>
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They took advantage of every inch of waste canvas.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My inspirational embroidered piece was stored away and unused for some reason, along with other bits and pieces. The one below is full of the same motif repeated several times, obviously for a project that required several of the same. Stored away from sunlight kept the colors fairly vibrant for 400 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Before I fell off the deep end last year, I had blogged about the first three blocks. They are pictured below, followed by four more. I tried to describe, in a grid pattern, which motif was my inspiration for each block (referring to above photo). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Now, the next four blocks (but first, their inspiration)...</span><br /><br />
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<span>I also decided there were some flowers that were too similar to others. I have also taken some liberties, changing</span><span> colors, inventing colors...and even adding additional blocks!</span><br />
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<span>The original piece contains 42 "blocks." I have added another seven to make it 49 blocks, 7x7. I wanted more fruits! </span><br />
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<span>There are still other blocks I want to add, and may...they could be free, bonus blocks in the final retail patterns (yes, I will be offering a pattern of this, maybe starting soon!). :o)</span><br />
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<span>I'm still contemplating borders, as this piece has none. I am studying other linens and art from the early 1600's for this. Little hearts and swags will not do! I am also trying to decide how much space between the blocks...a sliver, or more? I'm not planning on sashing.</span><br />
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<span>Finally back in stitches,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span><span><i>On another thread...</i></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><span><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i><span>For the curious, WHERE HAS SHE BEEN? I have really appreciated all the emails of concern. I apologize for not answering in a timely fashion and causing worry. </span><br />
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<span>It has been a difficult year, which has made me isolate and focus on one step at a time. Eyes and finger have been unusable for some time, so no sewing, typing, holding a pencil, playing piano...no fun at all. Thank God for the occasional puzzle!</span><br />
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<li><span><i>Riley graduated from college in the spring, we got her moved to Atlanta in the fall.</i></span></li>
<li><span><i>I had double cataract surgery, and am having trouble going from being extremely near-sided vision to a little far-sided. I can probably thread a needle at 20 feet (if my arms were longer), but I need so many different reading glasses for anything closer than 10-12 feet. Sewing, piano and computer require three different strengths.</i></span></li>
<li><span><i>I had a second surgery on my "Weasley-bite finger." I had high hopes before, from the surgeon, but results were not what was predicted. Instead of being bent at a 90 degree angle as before, my right index finger is at 45 degrees. I will have to work hard to keep it from scar contraction back toward 90 degrees.</i></span></li>
<li><span><i>My father-in-law in PA is suffering from advanced Parkinson's. He's had to go into a facility...three years of one aide per shift at home was no longer enough to help him. Clean out of his home, auction in a week or so, and then on the market. Plus we've been spending a lot of time visiting with him at his new home. He is in hospice care. Steve has been there since Christmas, since he has the ability to work from anywhere. I have been back and forth, coming home for short bursts to check on the property here.</i></span></li>
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This is the same kind of thing most everyone has been or will be going through. It has been a gut punch for me. It has been almost 6 years of life-altering events. But I have hope for the future.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>When Mary Queen of Scots was born in Scotland in 1542, the country was predominantly Catholic. Being named the next in line to the Scottish throne at the age of 6 days made an already difficult political situation even more uncertain and confusing.</span><br />
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<span>Scotland was trying to stay autonomous, England wanted to consolidate power, France was helpful to Scotland and was an enemy of England, and Spain was on the edges, threatening or supportive as it suited their needs.</span><br />
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<span>Intrigues, alliances large and small, and regional differences in Scotland, England and France made strong, unified states difficult. The pro-Protestant movement was quietly growing in England and France and Scotland were mostly Catholic.</span><br />
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<span>The flower of our third block is one of the many in this project that is ambiguous. While the newly-published Herbals of the time offered more accurate depictions of plants and trees, those drawing these on canvas for embroideries were influenced by whimsy and their own skills.</span></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Canvas preparation only provided outlines. The stitcher would choose colors themselves to match their own whims and desires. </span><br />
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<span>This makes guessing the name of the flower and their intentions even more difficult to tease out.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I have to admit that I, too, have taken some liberties with many of my blocks concerning color as compared to the original sampler. One problem...blue is my favorite color. True blue flowers are not as plentiful in nature. </span><br />
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<span>Turns out that I am making some whimsical choices as well!</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Since I am still making blocks and choosing colors, final block placement will have to wait.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Here are the first three together!</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The blocks just keep on coming. This tapestry is such a wonder and mystery to me.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>This is a little 5 x 8.5 inch booklet I ordered from England after seeing the above picture on the Internet. The small, pamphlet-like pages were published in 1984 by Traquair House, which is where the "slip" stitcheries were found and some are displayed.</span><br />
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<span>The best picture, and only one in color, is the cover. Oh, how I wish more pictures could have been taken, especially close ups! I have ordered a few really old, falling-apart books on Amazon that have a few of the same pictures, mostly black and white, and a little more of the history.</span><br />
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<span>Margaret Swain, the author of the booklet (now deceased), saw several pieces when touring the historic great house, Traquair, in Scotland. She loved embroidery and stitchery. There was interest in these linens as stitchery patterns. In fact, several of the flower slips were charted for needlepoint in the 1970's. </span><br />
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<span>The needlepoint charts may still be for sale through the Traquair House.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Here is an antique slip from Mary's time. When trimmed, the narrow edges are turned under, ready for stitching on a large bedding or apparel piece.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Much easier to work the intricacies of the tent-stitched slips on small pieces of canvas. The actual whip-stitching to the larger fabric pieces comprising the bed hangings and such would not require much effort each, and would be hidden.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The color on this piece is pretty good...probably put away, out of the light, in the early 1600's, until it was needed.</span><br />
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<span>I have used an arrow to point out my first block attempt below. I posted that block last time. I wasn't sure what kind of fruit the block was meant to be (as they look reddish-orange), but I made mine purple plums.</span></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I chose to make some of my plums with 2 fabrics, hoping to represent some perspective...not sure if I succeeded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Some rows on the top and bottom of the sampler piece are cut off, so I had to do some drafting guesses to make on this next block...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Some of my blocks will have reverse-appliqued leaf veins, like below. They can be worked with the centers appliqued "on top," or even as a solid leaf if wished. </span><br />
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<span>I have simplified some of the leaf shapes, smoothing out frilly edges and lessening the severity/number of the leaf veins. This makes the overall effect of the blocks less busy. I really wanted to make the blossom pop and be prominent. I thought some of the blocks too fussy.</span><br />
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<span>And to be honest, as I find myself guessing about which flower the canvas marker was depicting; the leaves either aren't the right ones for my guesses...or for my wishes. </span><br />
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<span>I'm sure the herbalists had the proper leaf shape drawn in their scientific journals, but many of the court canvas markers mostly took liberties with the emphasis being on design rather than biological accuracy.</span><br />
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<span>I mean really, how many of us actually know the shapes of proper flower leaves, except maybe our favorites. Those of you with a green thumb are probably frustrated by their...and my...design choices.</span></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I tried to make leaves or stems that were in the background darker than the foreground, again for shadowing and perspective. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Mary Queen of Scots, did stitch this kind of flower/fruit slip in later years, but mostly as a young lady. As an older royal, she had a small team of ladies who made the more utilitarian domestic and clothing items while she and her smaller circle of ladies worked on quite impressive medallion wall hangings (I will show some of this work soon).</span><br />
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<span>She was quite the clothing and fashion maven. Most of the info about her that I have found has been inventories of her gowns, clothing, jewelry, baubles, embellishments, and bed linens. These inventories were made and recorded every time she moved, which was constantly.</span><br />
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<span>She had a smaller, close group of ladies and attendants, including Lady Bess of Chadwick. They traveled with their lady to and from houses and castles while Mary was under house arrest by her cousin Catherine, Queen of England. </span><br />
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<span>There could only be one Queen, and Scotland was to be ruled by England and the English cousin, Catherine. Mary, who also had claim to the English thrown, was also a Dowager Queen of France (second behind Catherine de Medici, her mother-in-law.) </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Being Catholic was also a disadvantage for Mary.</span><br />
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<span>On to the next block!</span><br />
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<span>Teresa :o)</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i>On another thread...</i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><i><span>I seem to be like a member of the ferret family..."pop goes the weasel!" I come to my senses, realize that it has been a long time since the last post, then "POP," here I am!</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>"What has she been up to??" I've been learning some important lessons.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>1) I've learned that poison ivy is not just a short, annoying growth around your ankles...it can be an invasive vine that covers beautiful hardwood trees. Who knew? And it is just as toxic in the winter when you can't look for the three leaves. I have been trying to free some beautiful oak trees, so I've been miserably itchy, ugly, and on steroids (not to mention, in a really <b>CRAPPY</b> mood for the duration). I have been "rough and tough and hard to diaper."</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>2) I realized that my annoying double vision has less to do with the quality of the current pair of glasses, but caused by cataracts. The cataract in one eye took me from -13 to -18 in my right eye in the matter of months. Hopefully there will be surgery between Riley's college graduation and blueberry picking season.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>This may have also been messing with my perception of color and my opinion that none of my camera choices take good quilt block pictures. Hand sewing has been a very tough task due to fuzzy and double vision.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>3) A wet, windy winter has meant a lot of removal of downed limbs and trees. I'm also coming to the realization that a lot of the maintenance of this sibling-shared legacy property is going to fall to me and my husband, who still works, so...to me. </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>4) Dealing with Father-in-law's continuing decline due to Parkinson's in the Philadelphia area.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>5) Coping with changes around doses and kinds of medications that I started taking after my parents were killed in the accident. I'm still trying to find the right cocktail for me. Some dull my creativity, which is unacceptable and frustrating. What a roller coaster!</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>I know many of you struggle with something from my list and many others.</span></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><span><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><span><i>God bless all of you!</i></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div>
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