Before I get to what’s happening in my sewing room this week, I want to thank everyone who linked up their projects for my new Stitchery Link Party being held in conjunction with Vintage Embroidery Monday. The party is open until Sunday night at midnight so if you’ve got a project that you’d like to share, I’d love to…
Pansies are one of my favorite flowers. They are among the first available to buy in spring and the last to survive the frosts of fall. When we were at the grocery store a couple of days ago, they had lots and lots of pansies in containers. So today, I’m sharing a vintage Workbasket pattern for pansies. This pattern is…
Very late last night, I finished hand sewing the binding to the back of my Christmas Mouse wall hanging. Earlier in the evening, getting the binding sewn on so that I didn’t cut off the points of the diamonds was an interesting challenge. When I was sewing the half square triangles (hst) together, I used Pat Sloan’s How to Keep…
I’ve been going through my UFOs/WIPs trying to decide which to put on the list of my 2015 Finish Along Q2 Goals and I’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and add them all! As it states in the Finish Along rules: “You won’t be punished if you don’t finish your entire list, so feel free to make a…
Last night while watching the movie Soul Surfer (a truly inspiring movie), I worked on hand-quilting my Christmas Mouse wall hanging. Quilting with #8 Perle Cotton is really making the quilting stand out; giving it almost a Trapunto effect. Once I finish the red stitching, I’ll switch to the sewing machine and stitch-in-the-ditch around the diamonds. I’m also doing a…
Vintage Embroidery Monday will return next week with another vintage Workbasket pattern. The last few weeks have just been so busy that I forgot that my last scheduled Monday post was last week. I’m also looking into adding something new starting next Monday that I hope will be fun for everyone who loves embroidery… whether it be vintage or more…
The year that Dave’s granddaughter was born… for Christmas that year I made her a stocking that was slightly different but in the same fabrics as the ones I had made for her mom, dad and older brother. I looked everywhere for a pattern for a doll to make that was small enough to pop into the top of her…
As adults, our children are way past the age of Easter baskets and egg hunts but I do still like to give them a little something on the occasions when we’re together for Easter. So yesterday afternoon I searched through my fabric dresser and found a pretty fat quarter with Easter eggs on it and a coordinating fat quarter. I…
For the past few days, I’ve been busy free motion quilting (fmqing) and binding the second set of placemats that were part of my 2015 Finish Along Q1 Goals. They were also my March Goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. One of the quilts I intend to finish over the next couple of months is this one: I ordered…
As promised last week, here is the embroidery pattern for the small tulip to make matching napkins to go with the tulips I posted to make a luncheon cloth (small tablecloth.) Wouldn’t these all make a lovely set for Easter? You’d have to stitch really quickly though as Easter is this coming Sunday. This pattern is available as a pdf…