Do you have an upcoming bridal shower or wedding to attend? Or perhaps you didn’t have time to make something before the big day and are thinking ahead to Christmas for the newly wed couple in need of a gift recognizing their joyful status. Today’s and next week’s vintage Workbasket embroidery patterns could be just the thing to stitch on…
There’s still lots of time to embroider this vintage Witch and Cat to make onto a treat bag or something else for Halloween on October 31st. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
To my readers in Canada, I’d like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! Canadians have so much to be thankful for. Even the least fortunate in Canada have access to health care and other resources that people in other parts of the world probably don’t even dream of because they cant imagine such abundance. I grew up in…
The sixth and final pattern for the baby or child’s quilt is this sweet baby zebra with sunflower. To make the quilt, square up the blocks and then alternate plain blocks with the embroidered blocks. For the baby quilt using 9 1/2″ squares, arrange the blocks 4 rows of 3 blocks across. For the larger child’s quilt using 12 1/2″…
I think I’ve developed a bit of a thing for making these cute little thimble pips. They are quite a bit smaller than the clam shell accessories cases I showed you in this post. So far I’ve made three while working on the tutorial for how to make them and I’ve got the plastic forms cut out to make 5…
Since going gluten free, one of the things I miss the most is bread. Earlier this year, I discovered this muffin recipe that I’ve been using as a replacement for rolls and English muffins. I make them one at a time as I need them. They are great split in half with a burger between them or served under poached…
This mischievous little monkey picking a poppy is the second last of six patterns for the baby or child’s quilt. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
Getting this quilt top sewn together and then photographed turned into a bit of an adventure. Katherine over at Sew Me Something Good recently shared beautiful photographs she’d taken of her maple leaf quilt while on a fall nature walk. The whole time I was piecing the quilt I showed you on Wednesday I kept thinking of a creative place…
Back in the spring when we were staying in the hotel, I started work on a quilt kit for One Big Cabin by Row House Creations When we moved from the hotel into our apartment it got packed up and didn’t get worked on again until this past weekend. Before it got packed away, I had chosen to blanket stitch…
Couldn’t you just hug the little lion staring up at the periwinkle in this fourth pattern for the baby or child’s quilt! This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.