To all my US readers: Happy Memorial Day! When Dave was in the Canadian Army, one of my biggest worries was that one day he wouldn’t come home to me. Thankfully he always did. Not everyone is so fortunate. We lived in the US for enough years for this day to become a day in which we too will always…
Here in Canada, we have a long weekend so… Happy Victoria Day to all my Canadian readers! Next Monday is the Memorial Day long weekend in the United States. When we lived in the States, many of our friends and neighbors liked to decorate for Memorial Day and then leave the decorations up right through until Independence Day. I loved seeing…
Happy Monday to everyone stopping by today! Continuing on with last week’s theme of cross-stitch suitable for any upcoming weddings you might be making gifts for, wouldn’t this make a lovely gift for the newlyweds to display in their home. To make it extra special, you could take last week’s alphabet and replace the leaves on the flowers with the bride’s…
Happy Leap Day Everyone! This little donkey was leaping and cavorting around so much that her feed bucket went flying! If she’s like me, she’s just happy to see the end of February because that means that March begins tomorrow. And once March is here, spring isn’t too far off! Vintage Workbasket Embroidery Pattern for Donkey Kicking a Bucket ********************************…
I know it seems we’re barely over Christmas and New Years but Valentine’s Day is less than a month away and for those of us who like to give small handmade gifts to those we love, we’ll need to get started soon if we haven’t already. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing some pretty vintage Workbasket Valentine’s patterns…
This beautiful Merry Christmas Candles Embroidery Pattern would look lovely stitched on linens and other items to add to your holiday decor or to give as gifts. In fact, I did just that. You will find it featured in the center block for my Quilted Christmas Wreath Pillow Cover Tutorial. I had originally embroidered it onto the center of the…
Only seven more Mondays before Christmas and those of us who are making gifts this year are busy creating. To help everyone along with some ideas and inspiration, I’m going to be posting holiday themed patterns each Monday from now until then. The original Workbasket pattern had just the one size of the words “Season’s Greetings.” Dave added an enlarged…
I was telling our son last night that I feel like somehow time has sped up and is moving faster than it used to. Here we are at the beginning of November already. My sewing room is beginning to look like a rather chaotic Santa’s workshop with Christmas gifts in various stages of completion. I don’t have any little ones…
As I was searching through my vintage Workbasket pattern files for one to share with you, I realized that it’s been quite a while since I posted an alphabet pattern. This one is quite different from the ones I shared in the past such as the 2″ Floral Alphabet A to O (letters P to Z) and the smaller 1″…
We woke to big, fluffy, flakes of snow falling yesterday morning. I posted a short video on Instagram @supermomnocape for those of you who love seeing that first snow fall. By the afternoon it had all melted and today it’s supposed get up to 13 C… which is a good thing because I am definitely not ready for it to…
