I recently made this In the hoop owl on my embroidery machine, I used the 5×7 hoop this time and just played with the fabric choices, I haven’t made these owls from Dolls and daydreams in a long time, so it was fun to try again! The feet were really skinny, I couldn’t but fiberfill …
How fun to have a virtual craft show! I was super excited when Darlene (Quiltshopgal) asked for participants to this virtual craft show and joined right away! As you may know, I was recently part of my town’s yearly craft show and I prepped for months (on and off) for it, it’s a lot of …
The Pittsboro Street fair was a success this Saturday! Solveig helped me set up at 7am! At first we got there and there was a car in the spot I was supposed to be at, well half my spot…. the lady from the town told me to scoot over and still set up, you can …
Recently I was able to work with these fun fabrics for a quilt for McCall’s magazine. With magazine quilts I often have leftover fabrics, so these fabrics were just staring at me and wanted to be used for something else I was looking at my old patterns and thought I could use this GO GREEN …
This post is about a little bit of this and that! First I wanted to show this cute pincushion I got from Holly last week as part of the pincushion swap which still has openings! And Holly also sent me this cool measuring tape bracelet which I’ve worn several times already! Last week I …
I’ve been making lots of eyeglass cases lately in preparations of Pittsboro’s craft show in October The pattern is from embroidery garden here There’s Dogs, Cats and Owls Each animal has a large and a small version, so large is for sunglasses and the small is for eyeglasses/ reading glasses The large ones can often …
No there’s no spiderwebs in my pineapples! But I’ve been using my spiderweb Accuquilt die to work on more rainbow color of the month blocks as July’s color is pink! Here’s 8 blocks together so far I also finished the pineapple blocks! I was able to fussy cut a little owl in the middle of …
I can finally show you some secret things I’ve been working on for Christmas A while ago I showed this picture that Solveig drew on her computer and Brenda at songbirddesigns offered to digitize it for me Here’s the result! Isn’t it just adorable?? it’s a 5×7 hoop and it took an hour to stitch …
Have I ever shown you my “to be quilted” board? I list the title to the left, the measurements of the top, batting and backing and if the Label is done and the Binding, either with a checkmark or a number if the binding hasn’t been made yet, then how many strips it needs. At …
I’m scheduling this post ahead of time as I’m celebrating today of becoming an American citizen! (I’ll post about that later) my town, Pittsboro NC has a yearly fall craft fair called the Pittsboro street fair and I’ve never attending it as a vendor, then heard about it again some weeks ago but figured it …