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Snow, Mary and Joseph

So what does it do on April 5th in Maine? Snow, of course:

As for quilting…..was so whupped didn’t go work out today. Ended up (me????) taking a nap…I gave up naps when I was two, so if I fall asleep during the daytime, I’m really toast. So I was toast today. But before that, I worked on Mary and Joseph. I’m not entirely satisfied, so if anyone has any suggestions, PLEASE make them!

Mary isn’t so bad, and I like the baby. Mary’s pink dress is made from a pink spring uniform dress; for a different piece, I’d probably use a different fabric, but I really wanted to use the uniform fabric, so this is it. I think I’ll thread paint it heavily to shade it, and that will help. The silk cloak is hand-dyed by me, and I like it, and will carefully blindstitch it so that it will puff when the quilt is done. I’m wondering, though, if I have the proportions correct….

Particularly with Joseph. Something is definitely wrong. I trimmed his hair, but I still think he’s “off.” I’m not positive, but I think the head is too big for the body. Or the hair REALLY needs more trimming…definitely too wide. It would be easier to make larger bodies than re-do the heads, and I may try that….. I dithered a lot about the garments to have them wear…I wanted to make the figures look like they might have actually looked when Jesus of Nazareth was born, but in the end decided to go with what Fra Angelico painted, which was what he knew: predominantly northern Italians of circa 1450 a.d. Let me know what you think……hubby mumbled something, realizing after I pointed it out that something was off, but he’s worse off at figuring it out than I am….Thanks!

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