Patriotic Embroideries Framed

    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.

Patriotic Embroidery Finished

    I bought this Kathy Schmitz embroidery pattern in April, 2021.  It was a fun stitch and she gave very clear instructions for specialty stitches.  I will frame this in a 8 x 10 frame.  This will be given to dear daughter.  I have to make a second one for me.  

Thimble Pips For Storing Antique Thimbles

    I found this cute little case I could make to store my two antique thimbles.  I used materials from my stash.  The pattern and YouTube tutorial to make these little thimble cases are here.  They were fun to make but a little labor intensive.  By the time I got the sides ready to sew together I had almost lost interest.  I put them aside for a week then I took an afternoon and sewed the two thimble pips together.  They would make a lovely sewing gift for a friend who stitches.

My First Small Cross Stitch Project Fully Finished

    I found this chart on the Country Living website under free patterns.  I thought this would look great with the hand made strawberries that I finished last week.  It took me about 12 hours to do each cross stitch piece.  It was the first time I ever did cross stitch.  I stitched these on size 14 Aida fabric that I have had for awhile.  The chart gives you the color numbers for DMC floss and I had all three colors  in my embroidery floss stash.   So I made two of this chart and made them into a pretty pillows.  Dear daughter got the pink one and I kept the green one.

    About my DMC floss stash.  About 8 years ago I went onto the 123stitch website and ordered one of each of the regular colors.  I don't know how many colors I got, but it was a lot. My stash isn't very organized so I'm taking time to organize it by color number since doing it by color was not working very well for me.  I'm just going to put groups of numbers in plastic bags and put those bags in a big plastic box for safe keeping.  

Pretty Fabric For A Quilt And Thimble Pips

      One of my next quilts will be made with this lovely Anne of Green Gables Fabric fat quarter bundle.  Insert pictures of of Ann of Green Gables fabric.  I want to make the Bisection Quilt from storiedquilts.com, link here.  I bought a lovely light lavender fabric for my sashing.

     I'm in the process of making two thimble pips for my antique thimbles I inherited from my mother.   The YouTube tutorial is here.  I have all the sides put together, I just have to sew them up.  I'll post a picture when finished.

Fabric Strawberries Are Done

    I'm going to use these strawberries as decoration during the spring and summertime.  I found the pattern for the strawberries, leaves and stems here.  It was fun to make these but very time consuming.  I started these two days ago.  I spent a lot of time cutting out enough leaves (140) for 20 berries, then I had to sew 7 leaves together for each piece of fruit.  It took some time.  I love the end result.  I made ten berries for dear daughter and ten berries for me.