28 Mug Rugs - Going to a reunion of Missionary Kids whose parents served in India...it's been 60 years since I last saw some of these people!! I made mug rugs for everyone by using the basic pattern from Oma's Place and the Scripture verses are from JuJ
Well, this is addicting!! Yesterday I didn't do much around the house...my sewing room called! The lavender doily uses 3 designs from Sue Box: one called Lavender Spray and the border is made using the corner and straight edge from her Straight Ed
My youngest sister retired this year and has moved to a very small suite. Thought she'd like something that didn't take up a lot of space and could be Christmasy. The poinsettia design is from Zundt called Christmas Corners. I'm learning from Lidia abo
Greeting Cards: A friend I used to work with sent me a birthday card with machine embroidery on it. I loved it! So...I thought I'd give it a try. I starched my fabric first and then used a sticky stabilizer to embroider on...cut out the shape of the card
I think I'm pushing summer as I want to see colour!! Today I played with my new Pfaff Icon and used one of the built-in designs to spruce up a plain white blouse that is almost 20 years old! #1 - Front; #2 - Back and #3 a close up of the back. Sor
I don't very often check out the projects that come to me via Pinterest; however, this morning one little project looked quite interesting so I followed through. I made the pattern as directed and then made my prototype. It's a great stash buster and I
Here's another prayer request! Our oldest daughter has marfan's syndrome. To put it simply, the connective tissue in her body is weak. The big concern is that the aorta will dissect from the heart! We were made aware of this from her early teens and she
A couple more bags and a set of coasters. I love doing ITH projects!! Avis
Oh dear, I'm not having much success at stitching a design on a T-shirt. For some reason I've just never embroidered on a knit! I've ironed on a fusible stabilizer on the shirt, hooped no-show-mesh and then pinned the stabilized T-shirt on the mesh. Th
I took a class about a month ago at one of the quilt shops and we made this potholder with layers of folded strips. The most fun was sharing time with other sewers. I need to tweek the design a bit as the one point of my star just disappeared into the bor
Some time ago Lidia commented that she wanted to see what I'd do in the way of using a design big enough for the Pfaff 360X350 hoop. Well, I've played around with several smaller designs and have just stitched out one of them. Design is from Sue Box an
Two designs from Sue Box: 6X Geranium Corner and Versatile Doily #1. Thanks to Lidia for giving me the incentive to try this. I stitched this out on a piece of green felt.
Spring is nearly here and I decided to do some organizing in my sewing room. I found a bag of quilt batting trims that were too big to throw out so I zig-zagged them together in strips. I ended up with. a large piece that was 34" X 43". Just a few left
Set of 3 lined accessory bags done ITH. Pattern from The Stitch Connection - #323 Bag It! There are 3 variations for each of the 3 sizes so many options. This is for a friend who has had radical cancer surgery. She's quite a fighter. I'm doing bags for
I thought I have the "voting" figured out; however, the other day when I voted for a design, rather than adding a vote it lessened it BY TWO!! What am I doing wrong?