FABRIC THERAPY

Mary Queen of Scots' life is getting rather complicated following her return from France to England.  As the now seated Queen of Scotland, she was young, powerful, and beautiful with a dete...

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  Mary Queen of Scots lived with the French court from the age of five until her marriage at sixteen to the younger Dauphin, Francis II.  She learned languages and studied history, literat...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2021/01/queen-marys-garden-2019-blocks-41-42-43.html

  Let's talk about sanitation in the time of Mary Queen of Scots.  It's the last night of a crappy 2020, so what could be more appropriate? (THIS SUBJECT IS MENTIONED IN AT LEAST TWO OF ...

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(YET ANOTHER UNPOSTED DRAFT; NOT SURE WHERE MY HEAD WAS IN 2013.) Ooo...I am beginning to get excited about putting the blocks together! Yes, I do have 16 blocks finished, which is the magic...

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(ANOTHER UN-POSTED DRAFT FROM 2013...GOOD GRIEF.) Clarinet before fine-tuning... Clarinet after fine-tuning... Oboe before fine-tuning... Oboe after fine-tuning... The fine-tu...

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(ANOTHER DRAFT FROM THE PAST.  I FORGOT TO POST IT IN 2013.)

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(FUNNY, I WAS JUST DOING A LITTLE BLOG MAINTENANCE AND FOUND THIS DRAFT I NEVER POSTED...A REAL BLAST FROM THE PAST IN 2013   IT IS A BLOCK FROM CONTENTMENT.) ...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-how-we-met-block.html

Ho ho ho!  Here we go go go! I've been making some ornaments for my sisters using photos of their kids (they range from 5 to almost 9 years old). I got the idea for these balls many ye...

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Coming home to Scotland as a Dowager French Queen was messy at best for Mary at 18 years of age.  During all of her short life, England had been trying to neutralize her power and bend her w...

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  Marriage and politics...not a good pairing in any century.  Mary Queen of Scots was married three times in her short life of 47 years.          PAPER DOLL BOX (FRONT)       �...

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  As I've mentioned several times, inventing a border for something that probably was never meant to have one has definitely stumped me for a while now.  I do have a habit of starting some...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2020/12/queen-marys-garden-2019-continues-birds.html

While Queen Mary was away in France, a real stew was beginning to boil over in Scotland.  Her step-brother (older, illegitimate) had been acting the King during the latter period of Marie d...

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  When we last heard about Mary Queen of Scots, she was leaving France as Dowager queen to return home to Scotland as the rightful Scottish queen (actually crowned at 9 months of age.) "L...

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When last we talked about Mary Queen of Scots, she was a widow and Dowager Queen of France.  She had married the younger Dauphin, Frances, son of King Francis, whom she had grown up around an...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2020/11/queen-marys-garden-2019-continues-row.html

  Mary Queen of Scots, in a dress that I frankly don't understand, LOL.  What's with the lace, seemingly attached to nothing? More QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN blocks!  I'm on a roll now.     ...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2020/10/queen-marys-garden-2019-continues_10.html

BABY MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS More blocks from my QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN project!  (it's about time...) BROWN-EYED SUSAN MILLIFIORE PEONY JONQUILIA DAFFODIL More to come very soon......

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After Mary's marriage to Francis, Dauphin of France, she was not just Queen of Scotland, she was the French Dauphiness.  The depiction of Mary, above, contains the symbols of both Scotland ...

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I have to say that you're the most gracious, kind people on the planet!   With much kindness and deep appreciation of your sincerity, I laughed so hard when I saw that some of you thought I...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2020/05/embarrassingly-brown-thumb-and-goat.html

It's an ugly span right now in our present day history.  So today I am sticking my head into pretty sand and sharing some more of my plans of a flower garden I am planting for Queen Mary. ...

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The slow boat from China finally got to the USA, so I have elastic!  I have managed to make a little dent in the spool since it arrived. Each week seems like a month for me...anyone else? ...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2020/04/as-if-my-days-needed-to-be-s-t-r-e-t-c.html

How is everybody doing with social distancing and being under house arrest? I decided to make some fabric masks for my daughter, her two roommates, and my beloved, feisty aunt.  Protecti...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2020/04/leaving-1600s-for-crucial-21st-century.html

Yes!  More blocks for "QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN."  It has been fun cranking up the brain and thinking about all this again.  It's amazing what the brain can do during long car trips. I mean, w...

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SHE'S STILL ALIVE!!!  Not Mary Queen of Scots, but me!  More on me later... I feel like I need to "reintroduce" my introduction to this current applique project, "QUEEN MARY'S GARDEN."  J...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2020/02/queen-marys-garden-2019-continues.html

When Mary Queen of Scots was born in Scotland in 1542, the country was predominantly Catholic.  Being named the next in line to the Scottish throne at the age of 6 days made an already diffic...

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/2019/04/queen-marys-garden-2019-continues-block_17.html

The blocks just keep on coming.  This tapestry is such a wonder and mystery to me. This is a little 5 x 8.5 inch booklet I ordered from England after seeing the above picture on the Int...

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