July 5, 2025
This is another one of the flowers that I’m using for cards this year – or until I run out! I’m not sending the specific flower for the month; I’m picking ones that I think suit the recipient.
Happy Birthday Christy
Happy Birthday Elizabeth
July 2, 2025
This card was one of the emboidery lessons in a Zen Stitching class that Gail and I took part in. As soon as I saw the pattern I knew it would be going as a card for Elizabeth.
Elizabeth had a lot of family changes between her last birthday and this one. Perhaps this year will be a bit less hectic.
I wonder if Elizabeth knows I have an entire bin full of daisy fabric just meant for her.
Snow Bird
Gail and I chose to do some embroidery in our weekly sessions. I didn’t have any embroidery I was working on so I had to pick something new. When I went looking for a pattern I found this one that was part of a calendar sampler I downloaded (for free) in 2012.
It didn’t take long to do the embroidery as outlined in the pattern but I wasn’t pleased with the outcome so I started adding a few bits of design on my own and I like it better. I wasn’t sure what I would do with it. Gail and I discussed doing a single wall hanging with something for the four seasons but I decided I’d do small hangings that could be switched out as the seasons change.
This will be my Winter hanging but it will be put away for several months before I dig it out again.
Lidia
I had my doubts about this one from the very beginning. The cutting called for 3/4″ pieces by 2.5″ at the longest. It wasn’t until I was sewing the bits together that I realized that each of the 24 blocks had 13 pieces; for the record that is a total of 312 pieces not counting the borders. That is a lot of pieces for a 12″ x 12.5″ project.
But this was my June project for sewing with Stacia and Deloise and I didn’t see any point in putting it off – those pieces weren’t going to get any bigger. Our schedule was for just one day of sewing together but I had to take another full day to get this done.
Now that it is done and hung it might be one of my favourite patterns from the book.