Finished! Lots of small pieces!

(Above:  Relics made in the recent workshop for Quilters' Connection outside Boston.  Click on any image to enlarge.)

Every time I conduct a workshop, I challenge myself to finish, frame, price, and enter into inventory each and every demonstration started.  I call them "relics" because they are the artifacts that remain after the experience (plus, I like the words!)  While recently outside Boston with eleven fantastic participants, I created these three.  Since returning, I've framed them.  From left to right:  In Box Relic CCXXVIII, $60; Relic CCXXVII, $100; and In Box Relic CCXXIX, $60.

 (Above:  Four small, totally hand-stitched In Box series pieces.)

On the way to and from Boston, I hand-stitched while riding in our cargo van.  In fact, I even zapped one of these pieces as a "bonus" demonstration while there.  Since returning home, they've all been finished and framed.  Photos of each one are below.  Thankfully, I have other hand-stitching projects on which to work ... because Steve and I are off again on another adventure.  We're about to leave for Hilton Head Island, a trip planned in order to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes in their rivalry game against "the team up north".  For the past four years we've watched this Thanksgiving weekend game at Mangiamo's, a 24/7 and 365-days-a-year Ohio State decorated pizza parlor.  It is so much fun to cheer with other scarlet-and-grey fans!

 (Above:  In Box CCCLXIX, Inventory # 4632.  Framed:  15" x 12". $150. Polyester stretch velvet on recycled black industrial felt, hand-stitched in assorted, cotton embroidery floss, and zapped with a heat gun.)

(Above: In Box CCCLXXI. Inventory # 4634.  Framed:  15" x 12". $150. Polyester stretch velvet on recycled black industrial felt, hand-stitched in assorted, cotton embroidery floss, and zapped with a heat gun.)

(Above: In Box CCCLXXII. Inventory # 4635.  Framed:  15" x 12". $150. Polyester stretch velvet on recycled black industrial felt, hand-stitched in assorted, cotton embroidery floss, and zapped with a heat gun.)

(Above: In Box CCCLXX. Inventory # 4632.  Framed:  15" x 12". $150. Polyester stretch velvet on recycled black industrial felt, hand-stitched in assorted, cotton embroidery floss, and zapped with a heat gun.)