The gifts for our son this year were made to co-ordinate with the colors he has chosen to decorate his apartment. His main furniture pieces are black or white or charcoal grey. He has accented those with pops of green and orange here and there. He has made some additions since we helped him move a little over a year…
Back in May of last year, I picked up this bag of scraps at a quilt shop north of London, On. As you can see, I opened the package before I thought to take a picture of it. But it wasn’t the pretty red and white floral fabric that had caught my eye. It was the rest of the fabrics…
A while ago, I showed you a miniature hat, scarf and mittens set that I’d designed. Since then I’ve completed four more. I’ve been playing around perfecting the pattern so some hats are a little bigger than others and the same with the mittens. I’m going to take a bit of a break from making them so that I came…
This week has been a fun week for finishes. First, I completed this Snowman and Moose embroidery. I bought this as a kit during the quilt shop going out of business sale that I posted about during the summer. It has been my on-the-road project and sitting waiting at the laundromat project so it’s taken a while to complete it.…
I’m still busy sewing Christmas gifts and working on my novel. Just as with sewing, some days I make more progress on the novel than on others, but the words are adding up and I’ve been able to fill in sections of Chapters 11, 12 and 13 that needed to be freshed out so that the story would flow smoothly…
I’m excited to show you one of the Christmas projects I’m working on as it’s turning out even prettier than I had pictured in my mind. I managed to get a bunch of projects all cut out while we were in St. Catherines, ON for a contract that Dave was working on. Now that we’re back at our son’s place…
I know I haven’t been posting as much lately. It’s that time of year when I’m busy working on making Christmas gifts and of course, those can’t be revealed until after Christmas. I do have some recipes that I want to get posted and hope to get to those soon. But I also have another reason why I haven’t been…
Last week I shared with you the butterfly pattern I used to make a sachet for an ill friend. I had also embroidered the back of the sachet with flowers and leaves. The pattern I used is from a separate Workbasket pattern sheet which I’m sharing with you today. You might notice that I reversed the pattern for the…
While we were in Florida last winter, a new friend I’d met there was going through a tough time and finally ended up in the hospital diagnosed with kidney stones. I made her this little embroidered sachet to let her know that we were thinking about her. I have allergies so wasn’t able to add lavender or other scent but…
I took an unintended blogging break the past two weeks (except for the one scheduled Vintage Embroidery Monday post that appeared earlier this week.) Two weeks ago today, I had a health scare. Not to worry, I’m fine. And I intend to write about it once I find the words to describe it without either minimizing it on the one…