After redesign after redesign purchasing of new fabric, reorganizing and organizing blocks, and then piecing, finally, Alec’s quilt is pieced and ready to go! The lesson learned here is never (I mean, never ever) put a quilt away and forget it. The biggest issue is all the “cute” fabric I
Taking a break on other projects and working on some not so photogenic ones, I thought I’d show you my crewel project — really having fun with this one: Read any good books lately? I’ve been really stuck. I finally bought a mystery in a series I’ve been reading in
I’m still working away at my cross stitch and my crewel project. However, I took a side trip over to the sewing machine to catch up mending – I think that’s my biggest annoyance with the machine is that it can be used for so many practical things! ha ha!
So, I’ve been MIA for a while – reading my tail off (yes, I made my goal of 80 books for the year – even exceeded it – hooray!) – see sidebar for the gory details (ha ha). The sad news is that while I was on a trip to
What a summer! It was great – and it was sad and it was TOO busy, but now it’s over. I always find it amazing how time absolutely flies! This week I’m digging out the kids school stuff and seeing them through their first 4 day week. The great news
Well I have NOT gotten much done this month – except for finishing some things, I’ve just been zonked out in front of the TV every night With the kids still in elementary school, it seems like they pack a years worth of activities into May! It’s crazy. That and
I have hopes that both of these projects will move quickly – first is this cute applique mini-quilt. I’ve been looking at these sheep for forever – here they are in mid-assembly: The second, I’ve already given you a peek at – I’m trying this new frame and so far
One of my Christmas presents this year was this fabulous book and so I’m finally getting ready to stitch with it. My experience with crewel has been elementary at best and I’m vowing to do a bit better with this one – so I bought a frame – just a
Somehow that should be a song, shouldn’t it? Anyway, I bought this totally cute little crewel project at an estate sale – I have a brazilian embroidery project to do that includes Turkey work and was warned off of it (and this is from some AMAZING stitchers). So, you know