Sometimes we decide to embroider a pattern simply because we love it and then it sits in a box or wherever we keep our finished embroidery pieces because we don’t know what to do with them. Yesterday while shopping for the black background fabric for my Spring Bloom project, Ye Olde Fabric Shoppe was having a Mother’s Day Special. For…
For the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing some photos of the spring blooms (both here on my blog and on instagram) that have begun to appear in our area. Today I have some Spring Blooms of another kind to share. Shortly after I opened my Instagram account, I discovered and started following bellacaronia. She was sharing photos of her…
I had the hardest time choosing my “A Lovely Year of Finishes” Goal for May and then I realized that it only made sense to choose the one that I already had everything I needed to finish. So even though this isn’t my oldest UFO/WIP, I’m going to be working on my One Big Cabin quilt that I completed the…
I’m working on creating the pattern and tutorial for a super cute little pincushion that uses one of the small sew-in coin purse frames. I’m still tweaking the pincushion pattern but once it’s ready, I plan to make one with Redwork embroidery on it. To that end, I have traced out and started embroidering the sides and top using a…
I finished the last stitch on the binding of my Sample Table Runner at 11 p.m… an hour before I ran out of April!! And that’s a good thing because it was my A Year of Lovely Finishes April Goal and also on my list of Q2 Goals for Finish-Along 2015. As I mentioned in my April goal post, the…
I’ve been working away on my Sampler Table Runner and should have it completed by later tomorrow. I sure hope so anyway because it’s my April ALYofF Goal and at midnight tomorrow I run out of April! I have finished quilting the Sampler blocks using my walking foot and now it’s time to drop the feed dogs and practice fmqing…
I have had some really fun giveaway wins this month! First was this gorgeous fabric panel that I won in a giveaway that Mary over at Needled Mom held during the Tree Bird Blog Hop. The panel is from the Beautiful Birds line of fabric by Tracy Lizotte for Elizabeth’s Studio and was the inspiration fabric for the blog hop.…
When Dave traces out the patterns, if they are too big to fit on a single 8.5″X11″ sheet of paper he divides them up onto two (or more) sheets. I usually then post the sections in successive weeks but with Mother’s Day coming up in a little less than two weeks, I thought I’d post both sections for this lovely…
I’ve had a few people comment and e-mail saying they don’t know how to link up to my new weekly Stitchery Link Party that is being held in conjunction with Vintage Embroidery Mondays. So I thought a quick step-by-step photo tutorial might be helpful… not just for linking up here but anywhere you might find a link party you’d like…
It has been a productive couple of days and I’ve managed to clear a few things off Wednesday’s list so they didn’t go back on the cutting table after I cut out my new apron. First of all, I made this block as the base for an Under the Sea crazy quilted block… This was actually #5 on the list…