I’m sure that almost everyone in the upper part of the Northern Hemisphere is more than ready for winter to be over and to make the transition into the warmer temperatures of spring. So in the hopes of helping that along, for the next five weeks, I’m going to be posting a pattern for Tulips that the Workbasket pattern page…
Today we’ve come to the last of the Colonial Kitchen Set Days of the Week patterns. As I sit here, I’m imagining the quiet of a house pre-electricity sitting quietly having a cup of tea and the only sound being the tick tock, tick tock of the kitchen clock. Perhaps also Saturday was the day of the week when the…
Today’s kitchen item would have been essential in order to grind the coffee beans to make the coffee in the pot that I shared on the 12th of January. Since buying our new electric peculator, we’ve started grinding our own coffee beans in order to have a courser grind of coffee than is available already ground. Luckily we’ve got an…
Today’s addition to the Colonial Kitchen set is a pair of handheld bellows to introduce air into the coal or wood fire to get it rekindled or increase the heat being produced. 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…
This week I have a Christmas ornament design in three different sizes for you to stitch. The pattern for the vintage ornaments is available as a pdf to download here.
On Workbasket pattern page #92, there were four small Christmas patterns. I thought my readers might like to have them in different sizes so Dave enlarged them. Each pattern I share for the month of December leading up to Christmas will include three sizes of the same design. Today I’m sharing the candy canes with bows. The pattern for the…
There’s still lots of time to embroider this vintage Witch and Cat to make onto a treat bag or something else for Halloween on October 31st. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
Couldn’t you just hug the little lion staring up at the periwinkle in this fourth pattern for the baby or child’s quilt! This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.