I saw this adorable pattern for a cell phone case online and decided to make it for my granddaughter. I figured that, even if she didn’t want to use it for her phone, she could use it for something else. The hippo is really cute and is made completely in […]
Embroidery
I’ve been MIA for a bit longer than I’d realized! I’ve been working on a new quilt (what else is new?), and that leads me to today’s post. No, not the new quilt, but related …. A few months ago, I showed you a new pin cushion I’d hand embroidered. […]
Sometimes it’s very difficult to fall asleep on an airplane. Actually, it’s almost always difficult to fall asleep on an airplane! I decided to try using a sleep mask the next time I take a long flight, but it seemed like very little extra work to make similar ones for all of […]
I don’t know why I’m so intrigued by the biscornu construction, and I also don’t know why I like pin cushions so much. At the moment, I have at least nine pin cushions, and that’s not counting the ones I’ve made and given away! At any rate, my local […]
The fifth and sixth blocks from the newest San Francisco Stitch Company series were issued a few days ago, and I was at a good stopping point in my current project, so I went ahead and embroidered them. I think there are only six more to go of each size, […]
Now that the holiday party for our quilt group is over, I can show the things I made for our gift exchange. I had a lot of fun looking for things I wanted to make that would be quilt-related, and I settled on three small items. First, there was this […]