I've been working on my Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt pretty steady. I have 17 full flowers and two halves sewn up. I'm going to get all 36 flowers and 6 halves put together before I start sewing my rows together.
The quilt will have 6 rows with 6 and a half flowers in each row. Here is a picture of the flowers and the hexies ready to make more flowers.
I love the look of crochet towel holders with wooden rings sewn to them. I made up my own pattern for the crochet part.
I used cotton yarn that I use for dish cloths. Size 4 cotton yarn worked well.
I started by leaving a long tail about 24 inches to use to stitch this end to the wooden ring. I chained 12. Row 1 - sc in the second chain from hook and sc in the next 10 chains, (11 stitches) chain 1, turn. Rows 2 - 24 sc in 11 stitches across, chain 1 turn.
After securing the last stitch, I left another long tail about 24 inches to stitch this end to the wooden ring.
I bought 3.5 inch wooden rings from Amazon to use in this project.
There are several tutorials on youtube to make some very pretty crocheted towel holders. My pattern is super simple and quick to make.
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.
