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Monday, 23 July 2012

A Scratched Week


First vegetable harvested this year
a delicious crunchy kolibri


Tuesday was the first day in ages
spent in the studio
to celebrate I picked up a scrappy strip off the floor
and stitched it down.
Thursday's broken chain poem inspired a broken chain.


Berries are ripening along the dike....


....and RP Kayla spends her walks
munching on them


Wonder what they taste like!
She has also started picking our plums as they ripen.
I'm hoping I can get to the pears and apples
before she does.


On Saturday I decided a few Sorbello stitches were needed.
As I wove crosses on Sunday I realized they looked like women
so gave them heads and one holds a balloon.
Have a great week.
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17 comments:

  1. Angie Willis23 July 2012 at 06:35

    What beautiful stitchery. I love following your scratchings!

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  2. Carol- Beads and Birds23 July 2012 at 08:33

    Those little women look very much like ethnic dancing women. Very cleavor. Funny that the RPs eat those berries! I used to have a Black Lab that loved to eat our tomatoes off the vine. One year I put fake apples on the Christmas tree and she picked them off until she found they were fake. Thanks for bringing the memory to mind.
    xx, Carol

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    1. Penny Berens23 July 2012 at 20:48

      Hey, Carol...Perhaps I'll try fake apples on the Christmas tree....that would surprise her! In our garden the funniest thing is watching chipmunks picking strawberries and whisking them off into the woods.

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  3. Penny23 July 2012 at 10:09

    At last I'm back online and this post was a wonderful welcome back for me. I love your scratchings - they make such a wonderful stitchery journal.

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  4. Valerianna23 July 2012 at 10:48

    Nibbling along walks is good. I've been doing that with a blueberry bush in the back of the garden. I usually don't get them before the birds, but somehow this year, I have! Lovely scratchings..

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    1. Penny Berens23 July 2012 at 20:50

      I'm thinking that this year is such a good year for fruits and seeds that the birds are finding their fill without stealing ours!

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  5. Unknown23 July 2012 at 12:23

    So much joy in these scratchings, Penny. I laugh at the picture of Kayla browsing on berries - Flossy, too, enjoys picking her own berries. Dogs are the greatest! -sus

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    1. Penny Berens23 July 2012 at 20:52

      Yes, our dogs are wonderful companions aren't they. Flossy and Kayla are brilliant, knowing what is good for them! My second dog, Shandy, has no interest in anything round unless it is a green tennis ball!

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  6. deanna7trees23 July 2012 at 13:15

    just love your stitched women.

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    1. Penny Berens23 July 2012 at 20:53

      Me too! and I love that they revealed themselves as I stitched.

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  7. Nancy24 July 2012 at 03:40

    Oh, I love these women of the day!!! What kind of berries are they? Funny dog :)

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  8. Nancy24 July 2012 at 16:46

    BTW- I found this today and thought of you!
    http://thebutterflyjungle.blogspot.com/2010/07/story-stick-keeping-record-of-ordinary.html

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  9. Magpie's Mumblings25 July 2012 at 20:16

    One must keep one's stamina up when on a walk, so berries obviously serve the purpose. Our Odin would have been right there helping to pick.

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  10. stitchinglife26 July 2012 at 04:31

    Your stitching-scratching is such a joyful way to record life. I love the sorbello women.

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  11. maudernart29 July 2012 at 00:04

    Beautiful work Penny! I wish we lived closer so you could give me lessons!!! It's Chrissy btw xoxo

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