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Monthly Archives: September 2016

Embroidery, Stitchery Link Party

Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #77

Happy Monday! It’s now officially fall! It won’t be long until we’re into October and those of you with little ones in your lives might be turning your thoughts to Halloween. I have a series of adorable vintage Workbasket patterns that I’ve decided are children dressed in their costumes ready for Halloween fun. Last week, I shared this young boy…

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Embroidery, Stitchery Link Party

Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #76

Happy Almost Fall Monday! I’ve got a really cute series of vintage Workbasket embroidery patterns to share with you over the next several weeks. The pattern page doesn’t say what these are intended to be used on, but I’ve decided that the children are all dressed up for Halloween! First up… because we’re still having more summer-like weather (it’s supposed…

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September In Our Garden – Blocks 15 and 16

I’m so excited to share my version of September’s blocks for the In Our Garden BOM. This month’s designer was Pat Broe from Life in the Scrapatch. Isn’t that the perfect title for a blog about quilting! This month’s applique block is all about North America’s favorite fall fruit… the pumpkin. You may have seen an in progress shot @supermomnocape…

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Embroidery, Stitchery Link Party

Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #75

Happy Monday Everyone! Fall is fast approaching and that means the farmers’ markets are full of fresh picked veggies.   So today I thought I’d share these vintage Workbasket patterns for broccoli, corn and carrots. They’d be fun to stitch on some kitchen towels.   Vintage Workbasket Embroidery Pattern – Broccoli, Corn and Carrots   It’s rather tempting to drawing…

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Embroidery, Stitchery Link Party

Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #74

Today’s vintage Workbasket pattern features the lovely frames for the Curvy Alphabet that I’ve shared over the past two Mondays. Wouldn’t these look pretty stitched on a bookmark or perhaps a set of napkins. I’m also thinking that they could be enlarged slightly and then used to frame photos that you’ve printed or transferred onto fabric. Those could then be…

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