Last night while watching the movie Soul Surfer (a truly inspiring movie), I worked on hand-quilting my Christmas Mouse wall hanging. Quilting with #8 Perle Cotton is really making the quilting stand out; giving it almost a Trapunto effect. Once I finish the red stitching, I’ll switch to the sewing machine and stitch-in-the-ditch around the diamonds. I’m also doing a…
Vintage Embroidery Monday will return next week with another vintage Workbasket pattern. The last few weeks have just been so busy that I forgot that my last scheduled Monday post was last week. I’m also looking into adding something new starting next Monday that I hope will be fun for everyone who loves embroidery… whether it be vintage or more…
For the past few days, I’ve been busy free motion quilting (fmqing) and binding the second set of placemats that were part of my 2015 Finish Along Q1 Goals.  They were also my March Goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. One of the quilts I intend to finish over the next couple of months is this one: I ordered…
Back when I posted about our middle daughter’s handmade Christmas gifts, I showed you the chatelaine I made for her with a thimble pip, scissor keep and pincushion. One of the first things she said when she was holding the thimble pip and squeezing it open and shut was, “You should make a frog pip.” She has reminded me of…
My little Christmas Mouse wall hanging has been framed with teeny, tiny half square triangles (hst.) Each hst finishes at just 1 ¼” square. When finished the wall hanging will be 13” square. The plan for the frame changed slightly since I posted the graph paper sketch on Saturday. When I was originally designing it, I was going to use…
With today being National Quilting Day, I wanted to work on something quilty when I joined the ladies from around the world last night for the virtual sewing bee, Friday Night Sew In; currently being hosted by Wendy from Sugarlane Quilts. I already have quite a few large quilt projects in various stages of completion, the most recent of which…
I came by my love of birds in quite a bit different way than I would say most people do. You see, when I was growing up my Dad raised exotic birds. At various times we had Golden Pheasants, Ring Neck Pheasants, Peacocks, Egyptian Geese and Bobwhite Quail… just to name a few. Here are a couple of photos that…
March is going to be a very busy sewing and quilting month for me as I work away on my secret Tree Bird Blog Hop project. I can’t show you the actual bird fabric that I ended up choosing but I can give you a sneak peek at the other fabrics that I’m using in the project. Aren’t those luscious! …
I got a lot of TV watching done while I was hand sewing the binding to the back of the Paper Pinwheel Lap Quilt and Bed Runner. Monday night we watched the entire first season of Broadchurch. We hadn’t intended to watch all eight episodes but the writers of the first season were masters of the cliff hanger ending! And…
Quilting the Paper Pinwheel quilts is coming along nicely after the free motion quilting practice I did on the placemats. By Wednesday night I had the four 12” blocks on the lap quilt finished before I ran out of thread. A quick trip to the fabric store fixed that but not my sore, aching shoulders. You see, I’m still learning…