Bits of Stitching!

    In the last couple of weeks these, in the picture above, made it to my stash!     The Spoonflower printed fabrics are by Kathy Schmitz. ...

All ready to be hand sewn! Related posts here and here . The embroidery was modified from a freebie on Mollie Johanson's blog. I'm ...

  Sneaking in an update on these two completed embroidery designs from Kathy Schmitz's most recent book. I've completely forgotten t...

This will be the last embroidery design for one of the English paper pieced lap quilts I've been working for quite awhile. This is the l...

The stitching was completed on hexagon no.3, the sheep, few days ago. Lots of French Knots! Notes: Design from Tiny Treasures: Miniature Han...

  Started stitching the designs for the center of the 1" hexagons. Was able to complete 1 and 2, and working on 3. A progress shot of t...

The Valdani threads arrived! There are 12 called for colors. Ordered 9, had 2 in my stash, and substituted 1 for another Valdani color I had...

  I'm not sure if this winter theme lap quilt project will get done this time around.  At least I got it out, transferred the embroidery...

Have you seen Kathy's Schmitz latest book release? So much cuteness! She self-published this one, and right now (in my understanding) yo...

Finally was able to make it to our local quilt shop to find the  fabric I needed to continue working on this English paper piecing projec...

I was so excited to continue working on this project (same one posted previously), and I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FABRIC :-(. This fabric was...

I think this might be the year of dusting unfinished projects and doing my best to complete them. Here is another project that I've ...

  Going thru old photos and wanted to repost a few. Fall is in the air around here!   I think my hand embroidery bug is bitting again....

Autumn is my favorite season. Today is beautiful here, my family went out to do a bit of volunteer work. I stayed behind in order to have s...

A month full of all kinds of activity besides needlework. Just getting back to it this weekend, however as you can see  I'm not hand ...

My family and I were traveling for a couple of weeks, and of course I took with me some projects. Was able to complete the Calendula fr...

I've slowly started to make more progress on the   english paper piecing project. The last three flowers (of the first group of twelve)...

Very little. April flew by and I wasn't able to make significant progress on my wip's, but I knew that was going to happen and I...

Ta da!!! Here are, practically, all my embroidery work in progress projects, ready for me to continue working on them! Ikea utili...

  Basting hexagons for English Paper Piecing (aka: EPP) is relaxing! A couple of nights ago -thanks to my not so dear friend insomnia...