For Week #4 of the Stitch-a-Long our Chore Girl Goes Grocery Shopping. A closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
For Week #3 of the Stitch-a-Long we have the Chore Girl Sewing. Perhaps she’s stitching along with us! A closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
This week’s pattern in the Stitch-A-Long is the Chore Girl Ironing. Here’s a closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
When we bought the Art Deco Sewing Machine Cabinet with Stool that Dave then refinished for me, there were some treasures in the drawers and underneath the cushion of the stool. One of those treasures was several pages of vintage Workbasket embroidery patterns. After doing some research, I’ve satisfied myself that these patterns are in the public domain and I…
I’ve been working off and on embellishing two fabric bird panels since July of last year. You can follow the progress on these panels by clicking on the embroidery category in my left sidebar. In December, I added beads to the centers of the flowers and to the flower buds. That left only the birds’ eyes, which I had also…
I am pleased to say that this month’s FNSI was a success. I set out to finish embroidering the flowers on the blue bird panel and I succeeded in doing just that. The embroidery/quilting on both bird panels is now complete and it’s on to adding the beading. To make FNSI even more successful, I managed to get the second…
Tonight is October’s Friday Night Sew In. I’m going to be trying to finish the embroidery on the second bird panel. I’ve made a little more progress on the first flower since I posted about it on Wednesday. I didn’t get any sewing or crafting done yesterday as we were driving back from Petawawa. The contract Dave was working on…
Dave and I are off on a new adventure. Last week he got confirmation that a contract he’d been hired for in Petawawa, ON was a go. Sunday morning, we packed up and headed east and then north. We were driving along Hwy 41 N, when Dave pulled over quickly so I followed suit. At first, I thought something was…
Since finding the variegated embroidery floss I’ve been looking for at CreativFestival on Sunday, I’ve managed to make some more progress embellishing the bird panels. Each flower is being worked in backstick through all three layers (panel, batting and backing.) The variegation of the floss shows up much better in person than it does in the photo and I’m really…
This afternoon, Dave and I braved the downtown Toronto Sunday traffic so that I could go exploring at CreativFestival being held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. With over 350 booths and exhibitors, the fall show was much bigger than the CreativFestival that I attended in April of this year. In fact, I could have spent all afternoon and longer…