Pool Pillow - A friend sent me a picture of a pillow and asked if I thought I could make one for her. This is how it turned out. She hasn't seen it yet so I really hope she likes it.
Bath towels I made for my mom. My sisters completely redid her bathroom and she wanted some pretty towels. Design is the Tulip font design from right here. I edited it for the hand towel and washcloth using just the flowers so that it would fit. My mo
Pillowcases I made based on some I had seen at a boutique for $$. Kept them for myself too!
Gray Skies Quilt Been a while since I posted anything because I have been too busy to really sew anything. But as my daughter's due date approached - I was reminded that I hadn't made my new grandson a quilt yet. I actually finished sewing the
Football Blanket - Another blanket I made for my grandson. My daughter sent me the picture found yet again on Pinterest requesting ever so nicely for me to make it. It was quite easy to do. I used the minky material with a fleece backing instead of the
He saw this design and begged me to make it for him. Can you tell that he really likes it...
I finally got around to embroidering these towels I bought. I added the black trim. The designs are from Urban Threads.
Done! Notice the only thing growing are the weeds. Hostas fill in that area completely so I really need to finish my weeding.
I saw an idea similar to this on Pintrist . Instead of cutting out felt letters and numbers - I just embroidered them! As we never put numbers on our house (the post office has changed our address 4 times!) - people will now know they found us.
As I have mentioned - my son is a Mario nut. He is waiting for me to make him a Mario quilt. The pillow will have to do for now.
Beach towel I made for my son - Elliott - the Mario nut.
Ok, not an embroidery project but I made this dress for my granddaughter. I have only been sewing for as long as she is old (18 months) so I was kind of excited that it turned out as well as it did and that it fit. Also, I actually had to do button hole
This is from advanced-embroidery-designs.com. It is a free design in their tutorial section on how to machine embroider photo stitch designs. It stitched out so nicely. It was just a test stitch for me to see how hard it was to do photo stitch designs.
Another IPad bag - this time for me :-) I can't remember where the embroidery design came from but again the pattern for the bag itself is from Embroidery Garden.
Replaced my sons huge dresser & bookshelf unit with these cube storage systems. I made the tags for the baskets for him to know what goes where as he does try to help keep his room clean.