Sew blessed

Several years ago, my shopaholic friend Kathy gave me this sewing machine for my birthday.  She found it on ebay and it cost less than the woman she bought it from paid to ship it to her.  I've never made anything on this machine that required a pattern or fancy sewing.  There are no feed dogs to drop, which makes Bleubeard happy because he's not fond of dogs, including ones you have to feed!  It doesn't even know how to sew a straight line (or possibly I don't know how to sew a straight line).  But I love sewing paper to paper and bits of fabric together to make my (usually) tiny art quiltlets.

That's why today I am sew blessed.

By now I'm sure you know that Bleubeard and I are hosting Art Journal Journey this month.  My theme is count your blessings.  Also, if you've been around my blog long enough, you know I only have black ink for both printers.  This photo was printed on my laser printer.  

If there's one thing I have, it's tiny bits and pieces of small amounts of fabric.

With the exception of the eco-dyed fabric on the far right, all these fabrics were the size I found them in my stash.

There is lace, hand dyed, commercial, silk, and a lovely velvet that I added to the eco-dyed.

I practically covered the piece left over from Erika's quiltlet that reminded me of lanterns.

One thing you may notice is I used three different colors of variegated thread.

   Some threads show better than others.

I began this spread by taking a photo of my sewing machine and printing it on my laser printer.  I cut around it using my deckle scissors, so it would resemble a genuine black and white photograph.  I gathered the various fabrics and sewed them to the white 110 lb card stock.  I added the hand written sentiment (Sew blessed) and outlined it using a metallic gel pen.  Finally, I added the printed photo using glue dots.

Bleubeard and I are honored and thrilled you joined us today and hope to see you with or without your well fed dogs at Art Journal Journey, where my theme is Count your blessings.