I found a youtube tutorial on how to make a witch's broom with a stick and Cinnamon brooms bought at the grocery store. I found this large stick in my yard, it fell from the pine tree in the backyard. I bought three Cinnamon brooms to fill out the bottom and I attached them by winding twine around the Cinnamon brooms. It was easy to make and it looks creepy enough to be real. I put this out with my Halloween decorations.
I found this cross stitch in the free patterns listed on a website that was included on a youtube video showing free Halloween cross stitch patterns. I loved the cat on this one. Of course I stitched two, one for me and one for dear daughter.
I put borders on the small cross stitch and made a hanging ornament with a backing and a little bit of Fiberfill. So cute and such an easy way to finish a design for decoration.
I found this cute cross stitch pattern on pinterest. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to stitch. I'm going to make it into a small hanging ornament with a fabric border and backing.
My dear daughter asked me to make her some Christmas decorations that would match some fabric reindeer she purchased a couple of years ago at Hobby Lobby. She has two Reindeer made with white and red ticking fabric. She bought the materials and I made her three stockings and a Santa hat to match her reindeer using easy tutorials I found on youtube.
I found these embroidery hoops that I filled with some of my favorite fabrics. I did these a couple of years ago but I never finished them. I looked up a tutorial on how to finish them and decided to add a piece of white fabric behind the favorite fabric. Trim the white fabric flush with the embroidery hoop ring on the back then trim the favorite fabric leaving about three quarters of an inch to glue to the embroidery hoop on the back using hot glue. It was easy and I had all the materials I needed in my stash to finish my hoops and hang them.
I'm starting a new English paper piecing hexagon quilt. I want to make it with blue flowers with white and blue framing. I'm having fun cutting up my blue scraps.
I finished the second patriotic embroidery last week while I was pet sitting. I received my sticky boards that I ordered to use in framing the embroideries on Saturday. Yesterday I laced both embroideries onto the non-sticky side of the sticky board (I placed a piece of pretty scrapbook paper on the sticky side since I didn't want any of the glue on my fabric). I used the sticky board so I would have an acid free 8 x 10 board to lace the embroideries on. There might be another option, that was the cheapest and easiest for me to use for this project. It's the first time I have framed any of my embroideries. Here are pictures of the embroideries. You can tell the difference between the two finished because I accidentally used red thread on the stripes of the letter I in liberty on the one I'm keeping. Those stripes should have been blue. The stripes are blue on dear daughter's embroidery.
