It’s no secret to those who read my blog that I love ladybugs. I enjoy seeing them in my yard and gardens because I know these beneficial insects are hard at work eating aphids and other not so beneficial insects. In fact, I’ve declared it a sin to kill a ladybug! 😉 When Dave was tracing out this week’s pattern,…
Lately, in celebration of spring finally arriving in the northern hemisphere, I’ve been posting patterns for flowers. To change things up a bit, I decided this week that I’d share the patterns for three different sizes and styles of butterflies. The Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory is about an hours drive from here and is a fascinating place to spend a few…
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…
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’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…
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…
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…
I think I’ve got too many things on my list of things I want to get to this week! First up a new apron. I had purchased the fabric in the spring of 2011 with the intention of making an apron with it but life happened and later that year everything went into storage for three years. Usually when I…
It’s going to be fun to see what flowers make their appearance in the various little gardens of the house that we’re renting. I’ve been checking daily and there are a few tulips making buds but any other bits of green poking through are still too small to tell what they might be. Maybe they’re waiting to be sure that…