August 15, 2020

I am slowly, very slowly, working my way through the final blocks from the Splendid Sampler book. This was a bonus block and originally came out in honour of the Kentucky Derby.

I don’t see Tracie on a horse for her birthday, or even at the races, but whatever she does I hope she enjoys a sunny day – don’t forget your sun hat!

July 24, 2020

This is the second pattern that was included in the yard sale kit I dug out for Stacia’s card. I was better prepared this time around and the stitching went better, even though there were some discrepancies between the chart and the picture on the front of the kit.

I had a sharper needle (to get through the spots where several stitches meet) and I had a magnifier (so I could actually see what I was doing). Hardest part of the magnifier was keeping it stationary on my chest while I was working.

I’ve packaged up the pattern and what is left of the thread (for matching purposes) and I’ll pass it along to the thrift store.

July 17, 2020

I bought this kit at a yard sale and it sat in my cupboard on Texada for a long time. During our recent stay at the studio I realized that I wasn’t going to have time to make my usual fabric card so I went looking or something else. This kit was more or less on the top of the pile.

The cross stitch is done on 18-count fabric (18 stitches to the inch) so it wasn’t a quick project. But I had nothing better to do so I spent a couple of days at it.

When we came home for a day I quickly finished up the card and got it into the mail right on time.

I’ve seen Stacia’s pincushion and she has way way more pins than this one does!

July 5, 2020

This was a fun card to make and a perfect pattern for the start of summer.

I used my travelling machine for the appliqué and it worked so much better than my last attempt with my quilting machine. The glue gun worked to hold the buttons and, because it was going into an express envelope, they didn’t add to the postage.