Very late last night, I finished hand sewing the binding to the back of my Christmas Mouse wall hanging. Earlier in the evening, getting the binding sewn on so that I didn’t cut off the points of the diamonds was an interesting challenge. When I was sewing the half square triangles (hst) together, I used Pat Sloan’s How to Keep…
I’ve been going through my UFOs/WIPs trying to decide which to put on the list of my 2015 Finish Along Q2 Goals and I’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and add them all! As it states in the Finish Along rules: “You won’t be punished if you don’t finish your entire list, so feel free to make a…
Last night while watching the movie Soul Surfer (a truly inspiring movie), I worked on hand-quilting my Christmas Mouse wall hanging. Quilting with #8 Perle Cotton is really making the quilting stand out; giving it almost a Trapunto effect. Once I finish the red stitching, I’ll switch to the sewing machine and stitch-in-the-ditch around the diamonds. I’m also doing a…
Vintage Embroidery Monday will return next week with another vintage Workbasket pattern. The last few weeks have just been so busy that I forgot that my last scheduled Monday post was last week. I’m also looking into adding something new starting next Monday that I hope will be fun for everyone who loves embroidery… whether it be vintage or more…
The year that Dave’s granddaughter was born… for Christmas that year I made her a stocking that was slightly different but in the same fabrics as the ones I had made for her mom, dad and older brother. I looked everywhere for a pattern for a doll to make that was small enough to pop into the top of her…
As adults, our children are way past the age of Easter baskets and egg hunts but I do still like to give them a little something on the occasions when we’re together for Easter. So yesterday afternoon I searched through my fabric dresser and found a pretty fat quarter with Easter eggs on it and a coordinating fat quarter. I…