I’m almost embarrassed to admit that even though my Disappearing Nine Patch quilt was my goal in both July and August for A Lovely Year of Finishes, it’s still not done. I’m not giving up on finishing it but I am choosing a different goal for September. After taking the summer off, the London’s Writer’s Society will be meeting again…
In the spring on 2012, I made our middle daughter a new purse as a thank you for allowing us to stay with her before Dave’s spring contract started. She has used the purse every day since and it was definitely showing it’s age. We’ve been talking about making her a new one for a few months now. I had…
As I mentioned last week, I think I’ve saved the cutest in this sweet series of vintage Workbasket patterns for the last two weeks. Previously I’ve shared the couple dancing, various band members here, here and here, the lead singer and the back-up singer. Now today, I have this super sweet dancing tomato to share with you. She doesn’t have…
Every lead singer needs at least one back up singer and this corn cob is ready to sing his part. The pattern is available to download as a pdf here. Only two more patterns left to share in this series and I have, I think, saved the cutest ones for last. So be sure to check back each Monday for…
Despite the shoulders of the yoke not matching. Despite me not noticing that until the fabric was already cut out and I was attempting to pin them together. Despite having to trim the back yoke piece down so that it would work. Then despite the fact that when I got the yoke sewed to the skirt/body of the nightgown and…
Hand stitching is what’s happening here today. First a little peek of the vintage Workbasket embroidery that I’m going to be sharing this coming Monday. After my early morning walk each day this week, I’ve been sitting out on the back deck and stitching until the day gets too hot. This afternoon, I’ll be in my sewing room hand…
The past week turned into an unplanned blogging break. One of the sewing projects I was working on took longer than I had estimated and for the other, well… what was supposed to be a quick, fun project of sewing a new nightgown turned into correcting mistakes in the purchased pattern that I didn’t even notice until after I’d already…
These band members just get cuter and cuter! Next week, I’ll be introducing you to the lead singer. (So far, I am managing to resist the temptation to give these characters names, but that’s not to say that there haven’t been a few silly story lines that have started running through this writer’s head… lol.) The pattern for this…
It wasn’t done in time for our oldest daughter’s visit but finally the Seeds of Friendship bolster cover is finished and on the bed in the guest bedroom. The Ambleside mini charm pack that I used to frame the embroidery looks as lovely as I had hoped it would. As I mentioned back in this post… my entry was drawn…
July came and went so quickly that it’s hard to believe that summer is more than half way over. I also can’t believe that while July started out well with me getting my Disappearing Nine Patch quilt sandwiched and hand-basted… that’s as far as I got. It will now be my August goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. July…
