Flying Squirrel in the Goldberg house

Embroidery, piecing, pillow.  12" square.  Completed Mar 23, 2019 

for Steve Goldberg and Ann Ball, New Jersey 

Steve and Ann are long time friends (Neil and Steve have known each other since they were 3 years old!).   They moved into a new home last year and I created this as a housewarming gift.   

On one side of the pillow, I printed an image of their home, drawn by Ann.  Then I embroidered details, adding plants and home details.  The house is surrounded by 4-patch posy blocks, created with the floral print you can see on the back. 

The other side of the pillow has an embroidered flying squirrel, because Steve and Ann tell a very funny story about the night they found a flying squirrel IN the house. 

Here are some close-ups of the embroidery: 

We wish you many happy healthy years in your new home.  We love you. 

Peace, 

Paula 

Kimberly's Squirrel and Adva's Fox

My friends Kimberly and Adva live on different sides of our country, and we are all in different states.  They are always there to share pictures of our latest projects, get a quick bit of advice, listen to a kvetch about some daily annoyance, participate in a long online chat, or pick up where we left off on a sustained conversation about real issues that we may be dealing with.

So when I was packing for a week long vacation, and knew I had to take some hand work with me, I found coloring-book images of their spirit animals (Kimberly: squirrels; Adva: foxes), and some squirrely/foxy colored embroidery floss, and flew off to Punta Cana!





My daily beach or pool packing included a book, and my stitching.  I used the coloring book images as a general guide for outlines, but then I filled in with my own stitches and colors.  Here is the Squirrel in progress, on a pool towel:

When I got home, I machine quilted squirrely words in the background, and then bound the little quilts.   Here is the completed Squirrel: 

So when I wasn't doing THIS:

I was working on this  (close up of Fox) 

Here is the final fox piece,  quilted with fox words

Because we live so far away from each other, we are not often in the same place IRL, so I can't find a picture of the three of us together  (opportunity coming in April!)  You are just going to have to take my word for it, Kimberly and Adva ARE * Adorable.  Lots of love!

Peace.