25 million stitches

The second panel is finish. I showed the first half here.

Third quarter

Final section

Interesting how just a bit over overlapping- cross stitch and couching - makes the colour brighter.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 22-28 March

Week 13

This week I chose colours that reflected the sections, for instance green on green and brown on brown. Some blended in so well they disappeared, some more noticeable.

Embroidery Strip 2020 - 15-21 March

Week 12

This week I used threads that are in the orange range. Well, some are more close to yellow, but I haven’t got much orange in my stash.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 8-14 March

Week 11

This week I used threads of purple hues.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 1-7 March

Week 10

This week I used threads with green.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 23-29 February

Week 9

This week I chose threads with red or pink.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 16-22 February

Week 8

I chose threads that were blue, contained blue or grey/black.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 9-15 February

Week 7

I decided to use my threads that are yellow, orange, or containing those colours.

25 million stitches

Halfway through the second panel.

Using the old hoop from my 7570 Pfaff for shape.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 3-8 February

Week 6

The next set of embroidered sections on the blanket yarn.
These are mostly done on the cream sections.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 26January-2February

Week-5

The next set of embroidered sections on the blanket yarn.

Embroidery strip 2020 - 19-25 January

Week 4 -

I was trying to describe the strip of wool I am embroidering. I could not remember the vendor at all.

This week, I suddenly got an email out of the blue, a newsletter from Ragged Life. I thought, what is this about? I’m not interested in rag rugs? So I was scrolling down to the bottom to unsubscribe and Oh! And I saw a roll of wool like this. It is called Blanket Yarn. And when I had a look, I discovered I can buy a similar ball to this. And then I will not have to worry about finishing the year when this runs out.  I think I must have signed my name to the newsletter list, but I know that this is the first one I have received. I am glad it came

70,273 long skinny finish

Another finish for 70,273 project commemorating 518 lives lost in the Nazi programme to get rid of disabled, elderly, and mentally ill. This one is 15”w x 46”l.

Top

Bottom 

I am sewing on the hanging sleeves as we speak.

70,273 project again

Another 18”x22” finish for 70,273 project commemorating 439 lives lost in the Nazi programme to get rid of disabled, elderly, and mentally ill.

70723 Middling

The Middling I was working on is finished! Even the binding.

Now onto the next one.

70,273

Remember when I was working on xx embroidery for the 70273 project? I had a few quilts to the point where they needed quilting. But physical issues became too much for all the projects I had set myself.
Fast forward and the project has reached the goal! So I thought I better finish these and get them sent off.

Enjoying my machine again now that I can see again! I am stitching ovals around these xpairs.

The 70,273 Project - Middling 1 complete!

These titles are what I am giving them so I can keep track of what I am doing. Each quilt is given a number by Jeanne, who organises the project....so she can keep track!

This quilt commemorates 400 of the men, women and children who were killed by the Nazis because they weren't considered of value to society or were too much of a burden.

As I said before, I overlapped scrap pieces from having made blocks when I started taking part in the project. Then I stitched the scraps together with the raw edges exposed. For me this says something about pieces/people that would normally be considered of no use, by my taking 'useless' pieces and making them useful.

Anyway, I counted the pairs of x's and there was 392, so I stitched 8 more to make 400. (There were probably that many before, but I had to take some out because they were to near the edge for putting the binding on.)

You might like to get an idea of what the families of these people were told about their loved ones 'death'. Read some of the letters to family from officials.

The 70,273 Project - Long Skinny 1 finished!

and done - I must say it is Very Hard to photograph something nearly 2 metres long.

Commemorating 630 of those who were killed in the Akton T4 Programme.
It was a very terrible thing. The very least thing I can do is help to remember them.

And I have entered this piece into the Festival of Quilts so that more people can learn about what happened.

The 70,273 Project - Middling 2

In the meanwhile - watching TV project.
Whilst quilting and etc for the other pieces, I have been working on the stitching for another middling.

again, apologies for the blur. This is about holding your arm up over the piece
 and taking photos til you get one where the whole piece is in the frame!

This is a fabric which has a sort of ticking effect, so I have been using the  lines created to form the spacing for the x's.
I am thinking about quilting affirming words in the blank lines.

The 70,273 Project - Long skinny 1

Stitching down the binding on this:

38cm x 2 metres  click to enlarge

Details of the stitching and quilting
   
And the Middling 1 is ready for binding stitching, too.