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…
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…
As promised last week, here is the embroidery pattern for the small tulip to make matching napkins to go with the tulips I posted to make a luncheon cloth (small tablecloth.) Wouldn’t these all make a lovely set for Easter? You’d have to stitch really quickly though as Easter is this coming Sunday. This pattern is available as a pdf…
Has spring come to your area of the world yet? If not we know it can’t be far away and maybe you can get some of that spring time feeling by putting all the Tulip patterns that I’ve posted over the past four weeks along with today’s section to create a beautiful Tulip Luncheon Cloth. The original Workbasket pattern was…
Only 4 more days until the first day of spring!! If the tulips haven’t poked their heads out in your area yet, here’s the second last section for the Vintage Workbasket Tulip Luncheon Cloth. This pattern is available as a pdf here.
In this Days of the Week pattern set, Friday must be bake day as indicated by this flour sifter and scoop. It’s interesting to note that flour sifters today look pretty much like they did in Colonial times. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
Imagine having to bring in a scuttle full of coal (or more) each day just to have heat in the winter! This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
Whenever I see bells it reminds me of the church bells that would ring out each Sunday morning when we were posted to Germany (1984 to 88.) Each village’s churches would be ringing their bells and you could hear them for miles around. The sound was so beautiful! It was especially so at Christmas time. The pattern for the bells…
These Holly and Candles patterns would look so pretty embroidered on a matching set of Christmas napkins, tea towel and tablecloth increasing the size of the pattern used to match the item being embroidered. Vintage Workbasket Embroidery Pattern – Holly & Candles in Three Sizes downloadable PDF
