The Mini Cake Stands quilt is finally finished after a rather long journey! It was started back in early 2012 as I just couldn’t resist the siren call of making 150 little basket blocks. Obviously. I mean, how cute are they?Let Them Eat Cake (the mini …
Let Them Eat Cake—The Long Struggle to Completion
Crafting On — And It’s DONE!!!
Linking up with Nicole at Frontier Dreams and Crafting On.I have been pretty quite over here on my blog. The past few months have been busy but the past 2 weeks have just been crazy. Most of all that is done for now and I’ll blog later this week to tel…
Giveaway Winners and A New Quilt Top!
A very big thank you to everyone who linked up their Quilty 365 quilts or quilt tops! So exciting to see 19 wonderful versions all together. The Random Generator determined that Wendy Caton Reed from ‘The Constant Quilter’ is the winner of th…
17 in 2017 and Other Misc. Stuff That I like to Chatter About
Don’t forget to check in with my Quilty 365 Linkup and Giveaway. Lots of great variations and creativity on display! Also, I have EQ7 software for Windows that I’ve decided to sell. Shoot me an email if you’re interested and we can discuss the det…
Рюкзак "Этюд в голубых тонах"
Quilty 365 Quilt Top Linkup and Giveaway!
Remember the year long Quilty 365 journey? So much fun and yet, surprisingly tough to get through there towards the end. Wowsers! I have to admit, my daily inspiration fabric became weekly {or sometimes biweekly} and always came with a rapid …
Crafting On — Getting Close
Linking up with Nicole at Frontier Dreams and her Crafting On blog hop!!I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog lately, but no worries, I’ve been keeping my hands busy behind the screen:)I’ve mostly been working away at the John Deere baby blanket AND….Yep…
Finally Some Improv. Progress
It’s improv. time of the month again! I have three projects in the works, one of which I showed progress on the other day. It’s down to the applique border work for my Improv. Big Basket quilt {made out of strings} and the quilt top probably …
В продолжение к отчету о Quiltfest 2017
Quiltfest 2017
Friday Night Sew In
Linking up with Wendy at Sugarlane Designs and FNSI.I’m a bit late this time (again) as Friday nights tend to be hard to find time to sew. I planned well this time and started on Thursday, but then I melted a zipper to the fabric (OOPS!!) and needed to…
The Journey of Creative Process and A Reminder for Final Quilty 365 Linkup!
Somehow I didn’t quite realize that this quilt was started 5 years ago! Absolute craziness. And now it’s a true blue finish! Wowsers. So a quick sidetrack for all of you Quilty 365’ers: The last and final linkup is going to be on May 1st. Thi…
Crafting On — Spring Stitching
Linking up with Nicole at Frontier Dreams and her blog hop Crafting OnUsually I post knitting or crochet updates when I link up with Crafting On, but as I am working on the same thing I have been for several weeks (and didn’t get very far with it this …
It’s a Hand Work Kind of Week
I actually had this leafy border all prepped and ready to work on for my Oklahoma trip. But no. It had to wait until I got home before being pulled out of the bag for some quality stitching time.Just need to go back and add the flowers now…I’ve been …
Мой первый НЛО
Все лоскутницы наверняка знают, что такое НЛО. Не думала я не гадала, но случился и у меня тоже такой вот недошив.
Так вот, в самом начале моей лоскутной «карьеры» мне придумалось одно одеяло, конечно же лоскутное , но вот по замыслу оно должно было обязательно быть с аппликацией. Ткани я выбрала в зеленой гамме, аппликацию было решено сделать в желтом цвете.
Работа быстро закипела, аппликация была быстро сделана и мне очень нравилась, но вот все остановилось на стежке. Остановилось все это буквально на пару лет))) И вот через пару лет отлежки, мне наконец-то придумалось как простегать и работа была закончена.
Вот что у меня получилось:
Crafting On — Learning Something New
Linking up with Nicole from Frontier Dreams and her Crafting On Blog Hop.I’m a little late this week with my ‘Crafting On’ link:) I had a wonderful day yesterday, getting together with my sister-in-law (Marianne Meyer of Midnight Stitching Designs) and…
2 for 1 Monday!!
I had hoped to have my ‘FINISHES’ all finished up this morning so I could post earlier in the day, but…life!! So after spending most of the day in town running from here to there, I finally came home and sat down to the sewing table — aka the dining …
Flowering Snowballs is a Finish, Although Looking a Little Bruised Perhaps
So once again, I completely fell off the face of the earth, blogging-wise that is. We actually went on a vacation, planned for last September, rescheduled for October and then finally rescheduled again for March of this year. The timing was terrible fo…
CП "Пасхальная салфетка"
Не могу сказать , что все было просто. Хотя было все просто, но было очень много кропотливой работы, где нужно было все делать очень медленно и верно, чтобы не ошибиться. В СП с Викой работать одно удовольствие, все таки педагогический талант присущ не каждому , а Вика просто гений и мастер пэчворка.
Покажу, что у меня получилось.
Да, ждала солнышко, но видимо солнышко спит, поэтому прошу прощения за фото, немного мрачные…
работа.
Crafting On — It’s Growing!!
Linking with Nicole of Frontier Dreams and her Crafting On blog hop.Other than a few hiccups with finding the right dye-lot for the green, I’d say the ‘John Deere’ baby blanket it coming along nicely!! The colors are even growing on me:) It is starting…
Sidetracked
I was doing so good, plugging along on stitching a piece for my mother-in-law’s birthday, when I got side swept into buying a new project!!!See I had been working on this piece…’May WordPlay’ by Brenda GerviasAnd coming along nicely on it too. It’s a…
Мои шарфы, ткачество
Давненько я тут ничего не писала, однако рутина домашних дел затягивает, да и зима в этом году затянулась.
Сегодня хочу показать свои маааленькие достижения в этой области.
Вообще ткачество — это насколько увлекательный и медитативный процесс, что я просто отдыхаю и получаю огромное удовольствие.
Вот что у меня вышло за эту зиму:
А в этом шарфе, в утке была использована японская пряжа Норо. Фото не передает всей красоты этой ниточки .
Во всех шарфах использована только качественная пряжа, меринос, альпака, шелк.
Всем отличного настроения, весеннего и вдохновения.
Спасибо, что заходите, читаете.
Ценю каждый комментарий.
Craft On — John Deere Green
Linking up with Nicole at Frontier Dreams and her Craft On blog hop.It took me a couple weeks, but I did finally make a decision on the colors for the ‘John Deere’ baby blanket that I’m making for a friend of my husband. I have to say I’m not a fan as …
Got This One Done and Dusted Finally
The St. Paul is completely finished, all except for a label. As the binding was being wrapped up, I kept thinking what a masculine looking quilt this is. My youngest son hasn’t had a new quilt since he was about six {yep, bad momma} and well, it seemed…
Craft On — Half Way Mark
Linking up with of Nicole of Frontier Dreams and her ‘Keep Calm (Craft On)’.After finishing up the pink baby blanket last week I was at a cross roads as to if I would work on existing projects (like a good girl:), or start a new project — or two or thr…
Inch by Inch, They All Meet Up With a Finish Eventually
You know me, always trying to move forward, one little phase of a quilt at a time!Another quilt top closer to a finish!Now that the hand quilting is done on Flowering Snowballs, then it’s time for binding! Can’t leave that hoop empty for long, so…
March FNSI
After I finished it, I decided to play around with some other fabrics and see if I could come up with a good size for a larger zipper bag. I’d like one that would hold a med/large-ish size knitting or stitching project. Since I keep my stitching projects in ziplock bags, I want to make sure that will fit in the bags I’m making. I purchased a 14in zipper and after cutting fabric, I realized just how big that is. I think I need to find 12 in zippers and see how that goes. That notebook ↓ has a bunch of notes for different types of bags in different sizes. Lots of ideas going on!!
I picked up some Paris themed fabric the last time I was at the store as my sister in law has always dreamed of going to Paris and I thought she might like a bag made out of this. Also a new friend that my sister in law and I made while stitching at a coffee shop used to be a French teacher —
pre-children, and taught for a while in Paris, so maybe one for her as well? We will see:)
Yarn Along — And It’s Done!!!
Linking with Ginny of ‘Small Things’ on her Yarn Along/Read Along blog hop. I finished the Baby Shawl (aka blanket — why Debbie Bliss calls it a shawl, I’m not sure?) All that’s left to do is wash it and block it. I wouldn’t normally blo…
Fun with the sewing machine!!
I’m so excited!! I’ve been able to do some sewing, and it turned out so cute!! But our darn internet has been acting up again, so I haven’t been able to post!! I think we have that issue all figured out now. Verizon had an unlimited plan now, and while…
Growing Pains
I’m going to blather on today about a quilting issue I’ve been having for quite awhile. Last year I veered off into a very different {for me} way of working called Adhoc Improv. While I feel that it’s been an important shift as far the style …
Как самостоятельно изготовить шаблон для прорисовки глазок кукле
Как самостоятельно изготовить шаблон для прорисовки глазок кукле
Stitchy Update
I finished stitching another mitten this week!! I really like doing these small projects along side the larger ones as it helps to feel like you are actually accomplishing something with all the time it takes. Here are the projects I’ve been working on…
Ах годы вы годы…
сельский рай
Елена Ваенга, А.Петровская — Огней так много золотых
Ты у меня одна (исп. на баяне)
Ты у меня одна (исп. на баяне)
AHIQ Start and 17 in 2017 Progress!
It never seems like there’s proper time to get a post written these days. Guess I’m spending too much time playing ‘Words With Friends’ with the family, catching up on my reading, or getting pulled away from what I’m doing by my husbands requests to ac…