Welcome! Whether you’ve arrived from Pinterest, CraftGossip, Total Tutorials or another of the wonderful sites that have linked to my Thimble Pip Tutorial… I’m so glad you’re here! How many times have you been working on a hand sewing project where you need to use your thimble only to search and search and not find it anywhere? How many times…
This post is a supplement to my Thimble Pip Tutuorial. After I posted about the first three thimble pips I’d been making, one of my readers e-mailed me asking me to share what kind of plastic I was upcycling to make the pip forms. She gently reminded me that international readers such as herself might not have something similar in…
Back in July, I showed you this beautiful fabric (scroll down to the last photo) that I’d purchased with the intent to make myself a new set of matching travel bags. At the time, I hoped to have them finished to use when I traveled back to Canada to see our daughter and her partner while they were on holidays…
Do you have an upcoming bridal shower or wedding to attend? Or perhaps you didn’t have time to make something before the big day and are thinking ahead to Christmas for the newly wed couple in need of a gift recognizing their joyful status. Today’s and next week’s vintage Workbasket embroidery patterns could be just the thing to stitch on…
There’s still lots of time to embroider this vintage Witch and Cat to make onto a treat bag or something else for Halloween on October 31st. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
To my readers in Canada, I’d like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! Canadians have so much to be thankful for. Even the least fortunate in Canada have access to health care and other resources that people in other parts of the world probably don’t even dream of because they cant imagine such abundance. I grew up in…
The sixth and final pattern for the baby or child’s quilt is this sweet baby zebra with sunflower. To make the quilt, square up the blocks and then alternate plain blocks with the embroidered blocks. For the baby quilt using 9 1/2″ squares, arrange the blocks 4 rows of 3 blocks across. For the larger child’s quilt using 12 1/2″…
I think I’ve developed a bit of a thing for making these cute little thimble pips. They are quite a bit smaller than the clam shell accessories cases I showed you in this post. So far I’ve made three while working on the tutorial for how to make them and I’ve got the plastic forms cut out to make 5…
Since going gluten free, one of the things I miss the most is bread. Earlier this year, I discovered this muffin recipe that I’ve been using as a replacement for rolls and English muffins. I make them one at a time as I need them. They are great split in half with a burger between them or served under poached…
This mischievous little monkey picking a poppy is the second last of six patterns for the baby or child’s quilt. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.