a cherub with beads…
a snow scene…
a beaded tree…
Christmas trees…
cherub postcard…
a magical snowy scene…
This fabric postcard is for a friend who loves roosters and chickens…
Christmas postcards continue…
November 29, 2009
Sort of like an elf
For the past few days I have been working so I have had no time
for anything creative so, I feel sort of like an elf today…
I am working on Christmas postcards …I will show pictures later today.
For anyone interested I added a new
I like that! page called Cute!
Lastly, a new blog I found: lucylocketrecycledherpocket.blog…
: )
November 27, 2009
I see Paris…
I see France…I see someone’s underpants…bloomers!
I know it is silly, but that is what I thought of when I took the photo.
I wanted to show this dolls cute bloomers.
closeup of the black folk art doll
I need to add her hair and then she will be done.
I like the way this one turned out.
She is tiny.
After spending several days stitching dolls I have decided that my favorite ones are
still the little Black folk art dolls.
I enjoy embroidering the faces and I like the contrasting colors.
I have stitched five dolls total and at some point I will share the others.
I am ready to get back to hand stitching some post cards and quilt pieces.
Enough “side trips” for now.
November 26, 2009
Doll continues…
Using some Denise Schmidt fabric remnants for a doll….
dsquilts.com/fabric_and_patterns…
This is some of my favorite fabrics.
More pictures later today….
: )
November 25, 2009
I am thankful
I am thankful for the wonderful friends I have met through this blog.
(you know who you are!)
I am thankful for the blogs I go to that make me smile over and over again:
One of which is: fromthehouseofedward.blogspot.com
I am thankful for the inspiration I always find at Judes Blog (regarding stitching) : spiritcloth.typepad.com
I am thankful for the inspirations about so many things at: beecreative.typepad.com
and so many more of you!
I am of course thankful for my children and the man in my life.
Some days it is just the little things that I am thankful for
Like the sunshine, or a small childs voice, or little things too numerous
to write about…
Most of all…I am thankful for You.
I thought I would share a project I have done:
Punch needle, which is like miniature rug hooking.
I did not design this. I bought a kit at a Rug hooking show at the Shelburne Museum.
My first punch needle project…a bunny…
Can you tell? It is a small bunny with flowers around it. I love the muted colors.
Happy Thanksgiving!
: )
November 25, 2009
Lips
I made some clay lips from Sculpey clay for the doll.
I was pleased with the way the lips looked but not with the way they looked on the doll.
They were not laying flat against the cloth.
I decided I would stitch some cloth lips to the doll…..
but, I was not satisfied with that either…..
I decided to make her a clay heart….
I like her legs….
and finally, smaller clay lips that fit on the fabric nicely.
I know she is a little “wacky” but, I think it is kind of fun that her eyes are buttons
that are made from nuts, and her hair is floral wire and her lips
are clay. The dress fabric is a Batik.
She is approx. 27″ long and she can hang on the wall…
like art.
: )
Update: the first batch of Christmas postcards went out in the mail this week.
Mr. Postman was telling me how he has seen unusual things in the mail…like a painted coconut.
We laughed about it but, he was intrigued with my hand stitched postcards.
It was really inexpensive to mail them and when I think about how little
fabric it took to make them the only thing it really cost was my time.
Not bad…
: )
November 24, 2009
doll making
Yesterday I thought I would be doll making most of the day but, other things consumed my day.
I was preparing for Thanksgiving as I will be working the day before and after Thanksgiving.
I was able to “lay the foundation” for today.
I prepared the fabrics and finished creating the pattern and cut the pieces out.
Some pieces were “coffee dyed”.
That is one of my favorite ways to tone down fabric.
Yes I do try to create my own patterns…..I use whatever is on hand to create the pattern i.e. newspaper.
pieces of the doll are being assembled….
more later today!
November 23, 2009
Doll
Yes, I know this is not a doll…but, I just loved the face!
It is hand carved and it has such character and warmth to me.
I finally have one of my sewing machines working again and my
goal has been to make some dolls once I had the sewing machine in
working order…So, let the doll making begin…..
She is a tiny doll. I hand painted her face.
Yes, I drew and created the pattern for this doll.
Everything is done except, her face…
Still thinking about it.
Today I will be preparing for Thanksgiving then
it is back to Christmas presents and Doll making.
November 22, 2009
Bright Long night moon
I have not embroidered the face yet…I am waiting to inwardly hear how it should be done.
Sometimes it seems you know right away…and then other times it is not clear.
I am calling this moon a “She moon” and the quilt piece is called Long Night Moon and
this is December’s quilt piece.
November 21, 2009
A little Needlepoint love
For my beautiful daughter….
This particular canvas I painted myself. I did not design it though. I came across
a Valentine card by Michel and decided I wanted to do a needlepoint picture of it.
I packed these two needlepoint pictures up and sent them in the mail to my oldest
daughter this week. I stitched these pictures so many years ago. In fact, it was at least 20 years ago that I began
stitching them. I completed them before she was born.
