Yesterday I finished the hand work I was doing the other day when I posted. 🙂 Remember these blocks, begun during a visit from my quilting buddy? The quilt is now finished, though it ended up being too wide (23″ x 37″) for the wall I’d hoped to hang it on. […]
embroidery
My quilting buddy from Phoenix has been spending a few days here with me, and we had a project in mind to keep us busy and out of trouble. 😉 We used our embroidery modules to appliqué some adorable puppies from this pattern. They’re so cute that we’ve been oohing and […]
I actually made these two Ditty Bags some time ago, but I couldn’t post a photo until I’d given them to my twin sister and my brother-in-law. That happened almost two weeks ago, while we were all on vacation together in Amsterdam and, a few days later, on a cruise […]
Outer bag This is a pattern I’ve been meaning to make for some time, but I kept procrastinating. Then my LQS advertised a class to make the very same bag, so I signed up in order to force myself to make it. LOL! The class lasted six hours, and it’s […]
When I recently began using the embroidery module on my Bernina to create labels, I had no intention at all of using it for other embroidered projects. Yup. So much for that idea! 😉 Since then, I’ve done a few small free-standing lace embroideries, and I did those little gift […]
We’ve been reading about and mourning the loss of those 20 innocent children and six courageous adults last week at the Sandy Hill school in Connecticut. Who knows how or why these things happen? I won’t get political and say what I think about gun control, but today I found […]