When our son moved into his first apartment back at the beginning of December 2012, he had all the basics for his kitchen. Since we’ve been staying with him, I’ve been doing some thrifting and adding a few pieces here and there. Here’s what I’ve found so far: The white and green casserole dish match his white dishes and he…
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, when Dave was tracing out the patterns from each sheet (his hands are steadier at that kind of thing than mine are,) he put all the really small ones from each of the large pattern pages onto a single 8.5X11 sheet of paper. These ones are from Workbasket Pattern Sheet 83. This…
It’s asparagus season here in Ontario and I came up with this salad quite by accident. We had stopped into a Longos when we were last in Toronto as they seem to be the only place in Canada where I can find the mint tea blend that I like. We knew that we’d be getting back to London fairly close…
This sweet embroidery pattern was designed to be made into a table runner. You would begin by tracing out one of the center motifs and add a corner and continue around until you had four center motifs and four corners traced. If you wanted a larger table runner or a more rectangular runner, you would simple extend the two parallel…
One evening last week, just as our son walked into the apartment he smelled the air and said it smelled like cinnamon rolls. I hadn’t been baking but right then I decided to make cinnamon rolls as it had been well over a year and a half since I’d made any. Now usually, in the past, I’ve always made cinnamon…
When Dave was tracing out the patterns from each sheet (his hands are steadier at that kind of thing than mine are,) he put all the really small ones from each of the large pattern pages onto a single 8.5X11 sheet of paper. These ones are from Workbasket Pattern Sheet 82. This sheet of small embroidery patterns is available as…
Wouldn’t these look beautiful embroidered onto a set of pillowcases or as the center panel of a small cushion! The pattern for the Large Swans is available as a pdf to download here.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve managed to finish three more of the embroideries that I prepared before we left Florida. The “Home is Where I Want to Bee” pattern was part of an Aunt Martha’s transfer set I bought a few years ago from Hancock Fabrics when we were living in Rome, GA. This is the first time…
Today I’m sharing the third section of the Morning Glory Border. The pattern for the Morning Glory Border Part #3 is available as a pdf to download here. Morning Glory Border Part #1 Morning Glory Border Part #2
Each spring and fall, Amy from Amy’s Creative Side hosts her bi-annual Blogger’s Quilt Festival to coincide with the spring and fall Quilt Markets. This first week, May 17th to 24th, bloggers can link up and share their favourite quilts in a variety of categories. Then from May 24th to 30th the voting for a favourite in each category takes…