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Embroidery, Stitchery Link Party

Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #13

Last week’s adorable fish had some friends on the same vintage Workbasket transfer sheet. Now they can all join each other on an under sea adventure! This pattern can be downloaded as a pdf here.   Welcome to Stitchery Link Party #13! For those visiting for the first time, you’ll want to check out not only this week’s party but…

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Embroidery, Stitchery Link Party

Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #5

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…

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Embroidery, Stitchery Link Party

Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #2

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…

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Embroidery, Quilting, Sewing

One Small Finish and Three Teeny, Tiny Finishes

Very late last night, I finished hand sewing the binding to the back of my Christmas Mouse wall hanging. Earlier in the evening, getting the binding sewn on so that I didn’t cut off the points of the diamonds was an interesting challenge. When I was sewing the half square triangles (hst) together, I used Pat Sloan’s How to Keep…

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