Burlap ribbon color play for Thanksgiving

Hello, everyone.  It's Thanksgiving week in these USA and I was inspired to try some things.

Color Play in the dining room:

The runner was a Sewing Club project from way back, using fusible to applique the scrappy pumpkins. The ribbons (from Walmart crafts department,  I had dropped in to get Thanksgiving paper napkins and hit the crafts aisles on spec) are different widths and were cut to an appropriate length by eye.

Color Play at the breakfast nook:

The same ribbons,  draped on the light fixture. Note that the ribbons are not in contact with anything electric. The runner, which actually fits the 60 inch long table, has moved over also.

Yes that is the Spanish IGN map of all of the Caminos de Santiago on the wall. It's easy to refer to it , now that it's framed, when talking about routes or just daydreaming. 

Since there is still some burlap ribbon on the spools, I think there will be some burlap accents added to various small projects. 

To all of my American readers, I wish a happy and blessed Thanksgiving. To all of my readers, as the season of Advent is approaching fast, may you have a wondrous Advent and Christmas season.

Another project done

Hello, everyone. I know this is a boring title, but am at a loss for anything cute to say about this project. 

At sewing club this month we worked on reading pillows. These are a combination of art pillow to lean on and a pocket to put a book into. Generally people like to decorate them with cute pictures and sayings.

Here's a dinosaur telling us how great books are.

For me this involved trying out a new skill. The dinosaur design is actually designed for a smaller pillow. Our club was doing 18" pillows for this. In addition,  the largest size was just a little too wide for the length of my longest embroidery hoop. So I used the multi hooping abilities of my software to split the dinosaur pocket design into 2 smaller, overlapping hoopings. This after a little fiddling seemed to be going okay. The software created file 1 and file 2.

I started out with file 1. Oops. Should have started with file 2. File 1 creates letters inside the conversation bubble in front of the dinosaur.  File 2 creates the applique conversation bubble for those, and other, letters. Having done file 1 first, I went with having all of the letters appearing on the background fabric. 

Lesson learned: look carefully to see if it matters what order the files sewing out in.

I think the dinosaur is cute anyway, even if the gray swirls are showing through the letters.