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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Tea For Two Blog Hop

It is day two of the Tea for Two blog hop and this is my day to share my project with you. Thank you to Mdm Samm at Sew We Stitch, Cori at Chitter Chatter Designs and Mary, our cheerleader for all of the work it took to make this happen.
This was a fun project to embroider. I used white crayon to color the spaces in and then colored over the white with the bright colors. I was not sure how I was going to finish this project as I was doing the embroidery but once it was complete I decided to make a pillow. I love decorative pillows!

The pictures below give you a little close view of some of the embroidery.

My pillow sits on a wicker love seat in our dining room. You can see a little bit of it behind the tea cups in the picture below.

This was such a fun project and I even enjoyed putting the back together.

I put the pillow out in the daylight on our bench on the back porch. I think it might spend a little time there also this spring and summer.

Thank you for visiting a I hope you continue to enjoy Tea For Two.

Be sure to visit all of the participants in this hop, I know you will be amazed by their creativity.

April 1st

Happiness is Cross Stitching

Doris guest posting at Sew We Stitch

Chalk Outlines

MooseStash Quilting

Needled Mom

April 2nd

Creativity Amongst Chaos

Hill Valley Quilter

MaMAccessories

Blessings From Our Nest

April 6th

How ART you?

Stitchin' By The Lake

April 7th

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Think Ruffles Blog Hop Begins Tomorrow

Do you love ruffles? It is almost time for the think Ruffles blog hop. All of the participants are listed below and it starts tomorrow! Woohoo!

March 5^th

On the Banks of Frog Creek

Sparrow In Flight

March 6^th

Lily Patch Quilts

Hill Valley Quilter

Missy's Homemaking Adventure

Quilt in a not-Shell

Debby Kratovil Quilts

Quilt Doodle Designs

QuiltnQueen

March 7^th

Ridge Top Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Just Let Me Quilt

MooseStashQuilting

Childlike Fascination

It Seams To Be Sew

Meadowbrook

March 10th

The Tilted Quilt

A Geeky Crafty Life

Constantly Quilting

Life in the Scrapatch

Pig Tales and Quilts

How arT you?

GrammieQs

March 11^th

Needle and Hook

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Blessings From Our Nest

Little House on the Dairy

Just One More Stitch

Creatin' in the Sticks

Just Sew Quilter

March 12th

Quilted Delights

Patchwork Breeze

Sheila's quilt world

vicky myers creations

Words & Stitches

Sew Many Yarns

Sew and Sow Farm

March 13th

More Stars in Comanche

Stitchin' By The Lake

March 14^th

Thimblemouse and Spouse

Jane's Quilting

Bear Creek Quilting Company

Ipiece to Mary

The Quilting Queen Online

Miss Priss Quilts

Sew We Quilt

I will be posting my ruffles projects on March 11th.

Be sure to come back and see!

Are You Ready to Ruffle?

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Grow Your Blog Day and Giveaway

Today is Grow Your Blog!!! day hosted by Vicki at 2 Bags Full. Visit Vicki's blog here and see the list of bloggers participating. Many are new to blogging and would appreciate a visit and you are sure to "meet" some interesting and talented people.

I am late at getting my post up. I spent the day at a Sit and Sew sponsored by Melanie of Fabric Chicks in Coupeville, WA yesterday and had a wonderful time but forgot to complete my post. I have been blogging since March of 2010. It has been a great adventure and I have met many wonderful people all over the world through blogging.

Take a look around and you will learn more about me. Briefly, I am the mother of six and grandmother to 16. My husband is a pastor and I work full time for our local library system. I have always been a lover of books and my job keeps me working with them five days a week. I love to sew, garden, decorate, crochet, embroider, craft, spending time with family and friends, I could keep going. In doing all of the things I love I want to put the Lord's will for my life first.

The blogging world has been a blessing to me and I in turn hope to bless someone else.

This is the pincushion I am giving away, just leave a comment if you want to have a chance to win.

Hand embroidered on one side.

Pieced together on the other side.

Giveaway ends February 14th. I will announce the winner on the 15th.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

It's For the Birds Blog Hop

I signed up right away when I heard about the It's For the Birds Blog Hop. I have had a project in mind for some time and this was the motivation I needed to get it done. I had a bird pattern designed by Bari J and I knew how I wanted to use it. I set the materials aside but just didn't seem to get going on it. Thank you Mdme Samm and Mary for this blog hop and for the motivation I needed.

I made this quilt top using a "Botany" jelly roll and machine appliqued the bird's using Bari's design. I enlarged the pattern a couple of times to make it look as though the birds are flying off into the sunset or maybe the sunrise.

I plan to try quilting this quilt myself using some of my decorative stitches on my machine and some of the bright colored Aurifil thread I used to applique the birds. Machine quilting is new for me so it will probably be a slow process and I did not expect to complete that part of the project before the hop.

The bright colors in this quilt top are not what I usually use but I will be using more fun colors in the future.

In a post I wrote a few days ago I mentioned a book I bought recently called Redwork With A Twist by Pat Sloan and right away I spotted a bird project I just had to make for this hop. I used scraps of French General fabrics to make this fun pincushion, it is about 7 inch square.

I will choose a winner, using Random.org, from all of the comments when the hop is over and this little bird pincushion can fly to a new home.

I hope you are enjoying the hop. Visit all of the blogs on the list below to see what the other birds are out there. Have fun!

Linking to Pat Sloan's Show and Tell

Thursday, May 9

http://englating.se/wp

http://lauraluvsloons.blogspot.com

http://marjoriesbusycorner.blogspot.ca

http://ruffhaven.blogspot.com

www.pigtalesandquilts.com

http://debbykratovilquilts.blogspot.com

http://why-knot-kwilt.blogspot.com

http://beaquilter.com

http://gwenbru.blogspot.com

http://pccrafty.blogspot.com

http://pumpkinpatchquilter.blogspot.com

http://sherry-blessingsfromournest.blogspot.com

http://zellerwear.blogspot.com

http://crafting365days.blogspot.com.au

http://charlottescreationsanew.blogspot.com

http://Janesquilting.blogspot.com

http://Ipiece2-Mary.blogspot.com Robin Sheaffer

Friday, March 29, 2013

Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop - It's My Day!

Today is the last day of the Stitch me up embroidery blog hop. Thank you to Madame Samm and Jane for organizing this fun blog hop. We were given several embroidery designs from three different designers and were to choose from them to make our projects. Jane offered a thread kit with several colors of Presencia Finca Perle Cotton that we could use on our projects if we chose to. Most of the stitching I did was done with this thread and it was great to work with.

My first project was designed by Debbie at Busy As Can Be. I started by doing my embroidery in blue using backstitch, outline stitch, french knots. Instead of redwork I made a bluework project.

I then added strips of fabric from my stash.

Added some lace.

Added some trim.

I then added a little more fabric to the edges to make a 16" inch pillow that is perfect for my favorite chair.

The back is made from strips of fabric stitched together.

My next project is made from one of Madame Samm's designs.

This is the embroidery stitched and ready to make the sweet little doll below.

This little doll will be a gift for one of my granddaughters, I have three more that I plan to stitch up but each will have a different hair and eye color.

The last project I had time complete was made from one of the designs Cyndi of Bee Tree Designs provided for us. I am a lover of pincushions so that is what I made with this fun design. I used my new thread to make the cording for the edge of my pincushion.

The back is fabric scraps sewn together.

I had hoped to have time to use more of the embroidery designs provided by these talented ladies but I will have to save that for another day. Be sure to visit the others on the list below on this last day of the

Stitch Me Up Embroidery Blog Hop.

FRIDAY MARCH 29th

Sharon @That Other Blog

Patricia @That Other Blog

Blessings From Our Nest (you are here)

Liberty Threads

Caribou Crossing Chronicles of Quilts, the Weather and other Fun Stuff

Quilting, sewing Granny

Creatin' in the Sticks

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Day Six Bowls With Borders Blog Hop

I had a lot of fun working on my Bowls with Borders project for this Blog Hop. Today is my day to share my project with you!

Thank you to Regina who shared her pattern with us. Thank you to Mdm Samm at Sew We Quilt and Carol at Just Let Me Quilt for organizing this hop.

After receiving the pattern in my email I gathered my fabrics.

I then began paper piecing which is pretty new for me.

Three bowls stacked, should I make a small stack?

A few more.

Up to fourteen bowls here and I decided to add a few more.

I stopped when I had eighteen bowls.

With an ice cream sundae and a cherry on top.

I knew that I was going to use some hand embroidery in this project but was not sure what I was going to do until I was inspired by two of my co-workers to add ice cream with a cherry on top.