A reader posted a really good question and since it requires quite a long answer, I decided to answer it in this post. Sandy commented: “I just found your blog and love the DOW embroideries. I collect them whenever I find them. I am just finishing a set of “Bunnies” DOW and hope to have them posted in a couple…
Super Mom – No Cape reader Susan from Dubai joined in with the Chore Girl Stitch-a-Long and she very kindly sent me two photos of the dish towels she embroidered as a wedding gift for a friend. It was such fun to see her lovely stitching! Susan has given me permission to share those photos with all of you. The…
When I first started stitching the Vintage Chore Girls, I had the idea that I’d turn them into a baby quilt to have on hand ready to give next time there’s a baby girl born for whom I want a special gift. But as I stitched and thought about it, I got to thinking about when I was a young…
As yesterday was the first Friday of the month, Cheryl over at Gone Stitchin’ was once again hosting Friday Night with Friends. FNwF is a virtual sew-in similar to FNSI hosted by Heidi and Bobbie on the last Friday of each month. And since I already had a project I wanted to work on, I signed up to sew…
These beautiful Fabric Art Journal Covers began as simple fabric panels that were embellished with hand quilting, embroidery and beads. The embellishing of the two fabric bird panels began in July of 2012. The original post can be found here with updates on my progress here, here and here. I had originally intended to turn the completed panels into a…
Our Chore Girl has been so busy over the past six weeks; Washing Dishes, Ironing, Sewing, Shopping for Groceries, Sweeping the Floor and Baking that for our final Week, she’s observing a day of rest and Singing in Church. The close-up view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching…
To those who are celebrating today, I wish you all a very Happy Easter. All our decorations are in storage, so I thought I’d share a photo of our Easter branches from previous years. We learned of this tradition when we were posted to Germany in the mid 80s and decided at that time to include it in our celebrations…
Last Sunday, I posted that I was closing in on finishing the 4th of July picnic quilt that I started last summer. A large part of Sunday afternoon was spent sitting out in the screened in porch enjoying the beautiful weather and hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt. Once I lost the light, I moved inside…
Today I took the second of the hexie flowers I made from the kits I bought last summer and made Lexie a BFF. For this one, I changed the curve of the neck slightly so that the head would stay upright without having to sew the back of the turtle’s neck to the shell like I ended up having to…
Last summer, I bought a couple of little hexie kits from Sew Sisters shop in Toronto. And while I discovered that I enjoyed the process of making hexie flowers, I did not like the finished flowers themselves. Here’s one of them: Oh how I wished those pink hexies with the bold prints had been fussie cut. Now I realize that…