Мешочки для кофе и чая
Sunday Morning
Дорожка и салфетки "кофе"
14/06/2015
Пришло время осваивать мою вышивалку. Очень страшно было лезть в дебры Futura, но все же пришлось! Нужно было сделать подарок одному хорошему человеку. И хотелось сделать что то особенное. Очень люблю натуральный лен,и думаю он просто создан для кухни. Ведь так приятно выпить чашечку чая или кофе, когда на столе лежит ткань, созданная самой природой. На внешний вид грубая, а на ощупь такая теплая и приятная. Так родилась идея с комплектом для «кофе»
Baskets
What fun I had making these cute baskets for Carla! June is her month as the queen bee for the Mid-Century Modern Bee. She chose well, I think, don’t you! What a darling quilt she will have after she collects all the pretty baskets.Making the liberated…
Сумочка для рукодельницы. Минус НЛО.
На курсах нам были предложены размер и форма, и идея, конечно. Содержание, т.е. ткани все подбирали самостоятельно. Мне очень хотелось использовать эту панельку с куклой, мишками и лошадкой, а также попробовать сшить семинолы. Что это такое очень хорошо написала Марина Сохончук в блоге Лоскутная геометрия.
Но я все время помнила о недошитой сумочке и подкупала ткани, как оказалось не один раз))) это сделала.
Верх украсила кружевом и бархатной ленточкой, такая же ленточка в кулиске.
Вид сзади.
Ткань — японский хлопок. Размеры: высота 21см, ширина 28см, ширина дна 8см.
Очень довольна, что успела дошить и показать, приятно, что довела дело до конца. Это вселяет надежду, дает ощущение движения вперед.
Всех обнимаю и желаю хорошей трудовой недели!!!)))
Sunday Morning
Some Birthday Shopping
Last Saturday was my birthday (May 16th) and I had a day of shopping planned with my sister-in-law. We were going to go to our (semi) local needlework store and then to a couple of yarn stores as well as go out to lunch together. Unfortunately my …
Taking a Break
It’s time for a blogging break. Too much going on for the next week or two and other things need my concentration.My low-volume log cabin quilt still in the hoopI’m sure there will be lots of stitching going on in my hoop{s} and I’ll probably still be …
Про бомбошки.
Затем по краю круглой заготовки прокладываю наметку мелкими стежками:
Стягиваю, вставляю внутрь шарик или плотно набиваю наполнителем:
Кружево обрезаю, края подворачиваю и пришиваю последним наметочным стежком. Стягиваю нить и вставляю шарик:
Расправляю складочки, натягиваю и пришиваю потайными стежками:
Пришиваю бусины. Мой бомбошик готов!
Does It Matter?
Once, someone very close to me described me as a Quilt Factory. Another time, a family member asked me how many more quilts I’d make before I was finished. Not sure how to take these comments, it has caused me to ponder, at times, why I do w…
One Side Down, One to Go
I have been working hard to get things off my needles and hooks this past week. Now if I can just stop casting on new projects I would feel like I’m getting somewhere!!
The first bag I’m working on is my new knitting project for May. Here is a pic from the beginning…
Project from ‘The Knitter’s Year’ by Debbie Bliss |
I just finished the first side (with some changes on how the handle will be) and have one side left to go…
Umm, and lots and lots of ends to tuck in!!! That part might take longer than the knitting!! I also plan to line this bag so that any knitting needles or crochet hooks I store inside won’t poke through.
Some are already cast on and a couple need to wait their turn. So far all the bags I’ve started or am ready to start have been knitted, but I would like to try to crochet and maybe sew up a few others as well. Goodness knows I have enough projects going to fill them all!!
Working Through the Emotion
Okay, here’s the quilt that has been consuming all my time. It’s the quilt about the fire that happened in our town approximately 10 months ago, all the fraught emotion for free. There’s a lot of layers and subtleties to this quilt and honestly, I…
Sunday Morning
Quarter Circles in Spring 2015 Bloggers Quilt Festival
Okay, this is one of my all-time favorite quilts that I’ve ever made! I just adore it, in spite of the slight fading it has from near disastrous bleeding issues. I’m entering it as my second quilt in Amy’s Spring Bloggers Quilt Festival.Quart…
Vertical Baskets in Spring 2015 Bloggers Quilt Festival
Time for spring Bloggers Quilt Festival again over at Amy’s Creative Side! Love this mammoth online quilt show to pieces. So many wonderful quilts to look at and admire!Vertical BasketsI’ve been dragging my heels a bit about getting the binding fi…
The Loose Ends
Getting the bits and pieces figured out for all five panels on the fire quilt. I usually consider it ‘cleaning up the loose ends’, but sometimes it takes more time than others. I spent several hours with it laying on the floor, scratching my head and w…
Сумочка Сиреневая.
Maxi-Skirt
We called them maxi-skirts back in the ’70’s. Now they are popular again. Even kindergarteners want one, it seems! I used some double gauze fabric purchased recently from Sunny Day Fabrics to make Lula’s dream come true…I’ve used this Burda 9442 patt…
More Stitching
Gotta love Mothers Day. The one day I’m guaranteed not to have to cook! I had a nerve wracking experience with a big, hairy, jumpy spider while sitting in the back of our Suburban yesterday, but you know how that goes. {Husband driving, dad, mom and mo…
Turtle Trot — May 2015
And the after…
This is Flower and Bird Sewing Roll from Chessie and Me. I’ve almost got the first of the two panels done now. I have one thread color issue that is going to hold me up a bit until I figure it out. I changed out the color of fabric (the first photo being more true to color) and because of that the yellow-y thread they used for the tulip flower won’t work. I’m not sure what I’m going to use yet, but I will continue on with this once I’ve figured that out:) Until then I will move on to the next project and have fun with it for a while!! Happy Stitching!!
Sunday Morning
Gardening — Take 1
We’ve had an unusual Spring this year in that it’s stayed nice and cool for much longer than normal. We’ve had a few days here and there that have gotten pretty warm, even sorta hot, but all-in-all it’s been a very nice Spring.
So I decided that it was time to get into the garden and get things growing!! First we needed some plants. I heard through a Facebook post that some FFA members a few towns away was having a sale of some tomato plants and cucumber they had grown and thought it would be good to support them. Then we headed to our favorite local greenhouse and got the pepper plants…
Then I needed to clean up the garden plot. Last year we decided to abandon the big garden area we had (around 100ft by 50ft or so). It was a LOT to take care of and the soil is hard and very weedy. We build 2 4×8 raised beds instead. Now this really limits how much we can grow, we had hoped to be able to add a couple more raised beds this year, but that didn’t happen, but it is much easier to take care of…
Yes, it was quite a mess from the Autumn/Winter seasons!! I took a shovel to the outer edges and chopped, chopped, chopped away until it was all clean and nice again. I don’t know how I didn’t get this little guy while I was doing all the chopping…
We got the garden planted that same day too, but the sun wouldn’t cooperate and the pictures turned out really bad so I took some this morning…
Hand Quilting Away
I can’t believe there are two different quilts in two different hoops and I’m okay with that. Wowsers, am I crazy or what? The flower quilt is not being very quilted very densely, unlike the log cabin quilt which is getting a line of stitching per ‘log…
Distraction Sewing
Stephanie’s block for the Mid-Century Modern Bee took a little bit of time, but the end result is this Gorgeous Gertie designed by Lily’s Quilts. The little parts all come together precisely with paper piecing. It’s even neat from the back!&…
A Little Progress on Scrappy Tulips
I pulled out the Scrappy Tulip quilt to play. The snowball blocks are going together in a very fast and sort of mindless way, which is good. I’m happy to be mindless occasionally.*wink I’m trying to make sure the same prints are not directly next…
May’s Monthly Starts
And a bit of April’s Wrap-Up too!! First for the new monthly starts…Stitching…Love Thy Neighbor from Plum Street Samplers. I bought this one quite a while back and thought I just LOVED it. Then it came in the mail and I couldn’t make myself start i…
Finding Balance or Finding my Quilty Self. And Never the Twain Shall Meet…
I think I’m in a bit of a sluggish, slummy slump lately. Never really feeling like I get anywhere. I play, dribble and dabble at things but it never seems to add up. Am I ill? Look at this gorgeous fabric! And I haven’t even cut into it yet. So indecis…