I know that his name is not very original, but it really suits him. Ted has been a WIP for quite some time. I finally made the decision that he needed to come to life! It just wasn’t fair to leave him partially done, lying on the sewing table. Ted is 4 1/2″ tall standing, [...]
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Hi! Sorry I haven’t been posting here, but there really hasn’t been much to post about! I’ve been up to my ears in work, some on the house, some getting ready for others to work on the house, a special custom order from my Etsy shop, and a couple of items ready to put in [...]
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I have been growing my own pumpkin patch here…. This has been keeping me busy this past week. I took a couple into work that I had left from the batch that I had made last year (I think that I had sold about 8 of them last year)…… These are just a few. I [...]
Filed under: Crafts, Holidays, Seasons, Sewing | Tagged: Crafts, decorations, fall, fall crafts, pumpkins, Sewing | 2 Comments »
I was doing some searching around the internet this morning, looking for a good source for wool felt. I have been admiring a lot of sewing projects on flickr and other blogs that I enjoy reading, and especially during the fall months I have found that many of these projects have at least a small [...]
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I started this pillow awhile ago, and I have been hand quilting it, just a little here and there. And yesterday, I finished! I love the colors in this pillow, and I decided to quilt each square from side to side, in rows 1/2″ apart. It really is more stitching that I had realized. Here [...]
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I keep waiting for fall to appear here. I thought that I had a peek at it last week, when the low temperature was about 42° for a couple of mornings. But here it was in the 90′s today, and it’s November 3! Arghh! So I am looking around the house for some way to [...]
Filed under: Quilting, Seasons | Tagged: fall, pinwheels, Quilting, sunflowers, wall quilt | 2 Comments »
