I've been tatting this cross bookmark pattern for Christmas presents this year. The first one I made I gave to a friend then she commissioned me to make several for her...then our Director at work commissioned me to make one for her too.
This is Margaret P's block. The colors are beautiful on this block. I did the stitching on the far left and the tatting next to it.
This is Sue Troutman's block. I did the tatting in the upper left, the seam right below it and the seam to the right of the little girl print. I love the fabric in this block it is wonderful to stitch on.
This round robin is sooo much fun! So much fun in fact that we are keeping it going by sending more blocks around as we have time to work on them.
This is a round robin project and the block belongs to Susan Nixon. I did the feather stitch and curved fan seams at the top of the block. It was quite the challenge Susan didn't want any pink embellishments on the block.
Sorry the buttons are distorting the photo...
I did this bookmark for a friend that is having knee replacement.
This one is for a round robin block I'm working on.I'll add a photo of the block when I get my part finished.
This is just a fun piece of edging I worked on one day...I love the way the variegated colors worked out.
This is my first block for a round robin. There is only two pieces of material that are from my own stash all the rest are from swaps. The sisters print I have used before on a heart and I thought it was perfect for this block too. I've never been in a rr before so I'm really looking forward to it and I'm excited to see with the other ladies will stitch on this block.
Maureen's stitching is so perfect and so detailed. I always drool over everything she does. It's almost to beautiful to use...but I promised myself I would. I'm like so many people I want to save my nice things instead of using and enjoying them. I must break myself of this habit...
I'm sure there are other weird things about me that I just don't know about. I was tagged by several people and I know most of my blog friends have been tagged several times too....so if you are reading this and haven't been tagged yet consider yourself tagged by me.
Thanks to all of my readers that have been leaving me comments. I love to read them and I try to respond if I get an email address otherwise I visit your blog (if you have one).
I started a new job a month ago and it is seriously getting in the way of my stitching time. Several of the ladies in one of my online groups suggest stitching at least 15 minutes each day...I really need to start this and make it a habit. My biggest problem with that is I lose all track of time when I'm stitching...lol!!!
I hope everyone is having a great day!
This little heart has been patiently waiting in my flickr folder to be posted to this blog. The print in the center is one of my favorites. It has all of my favorite things....birds, bird houses and flowers.
The flowers on the top left are Fargo roses...they are very full and look the way roses should. Three of the seam treatments are done with a single thread of DMC floss.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Sometimes it's fun to do some thing totally different. This county heart is made from all cotton fabrics...I love working with cottons they are far more forgiving then fancy fabrics.
I've been working on more hearts. The spider web roses got a little flattened in the scanner but that's ok they puffed up again. I really am trying to get away from purple but I think there are a few more in my pile to do.
I hope everyone had a nice weekend!
I love doing these spider web rose motifs!!! Others must like them to I have several comments on my flickr site about them.
This one the silk ribbon is just one color but I like to use two ribbons together in my needle while doing them. I'll use a 7mm ribbon along with a 4mm ribbon of a different color so the rose has a two tone look to it. Belinda from www.bearembroideryden.blogspot.com shared this tip and I have been using it on most of my roses.
The roses at the top of the bottom seam treatment are Fargo roses...now that I can make them right I use them often too.
Life has been so busy lately that I haven't had time to work on big projects. It's nice to have a pile of hearts made up so that I can work slowly and not forget what I'm doing on them. I enjoyed working on this heart; the curve was interesting to play with. The seam treatment makes such a pretty arch.
I seem to be stuck on purple lately most of the hearts are shades of pink and purple. The center fabric is a beautiful bold cotton print; this is only a small corner piece.
I want to thank all of those that have been leaving comments I love hearing from all of you. I do try to respond to anyone that has a return email address. It is so nice to know people are reading my blog. Hopefully life will settle down for me and I will be able to post more often this fall and winter.
I'm posting this from my flicker site and it will only allow me to post one pic at a time. I have another heart pic to share so it well be the post above this one.
Happy Weekend Everyone!!
This beautiful heart came all the way from Italy to my little home here in Ohio. Lorenza does beautiful work....aren't those violets great!
