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 Stars, Roses, Daisies, Flowers

 Sashing and Posts - Green Black White Gold Red Quilt Top       

 

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Apprx. 39 1/2   x  49 inches wide and long.

 

This is a beautiful NEW Stars, Flowers themed cotton Quilt Top that I made. You'll be sure to enjoy this one for many years to come.

 

+++ Love the secondary patterns in this one.  How many secondary patterns can you see?

+++  Enjoy this one year-round, without being stuck by thorns.

 

Make this a family heirloom. Use it throughout the year. Great for a wall, lap, crib, wheelchair  quilt. 

 

 

 This is the top only.  You add batting, backing and your  favorite quilting designs.

 

Gorgeous floral stars design.

Too Long Since I Posted.  Been Sewing Again.

 

 

Apprx. 53 x 52  inches wide and long.

 

 

This is a beautiful NEW, Butterflies and Stars, Flowers and Weeds, Black and White, Ohio Stars, Cotton Quilt Top that I made. 

 

 

 

Notice the Hourglasses in the border!

 

 

+++ Do you still love butterflies and nature? One could enjoy this one year-round, without the actual outdoor weed allergy.

 

+++ Love the off-white tonal leaves retro-look alternate fabric.

 

 

 

...or, are these moths?  Oops.

 

It's Acorns and Leaves Season

- So Well Demonstrated In This Pinwheels Glitter~ Brown White ~Fall Winter ~ Irish Chain Quilt Top  

 

 

+++Approximately 47 x 47 inches +++

I created this quilt top, from start to finish; and used my imagination as I proceeded.

 All great quality fabrics. There are two shades of solid browns in this quilt top. The leaves fabric is by Maywood.

 

You'll notice the gold glitter highlighted reddish acorn fabric.

This quilt top can be extended to any size.

 

You can do bluework, redwork or other embroidery in the solid white squares.  Make this a family heirloom. Use it throughout the year. Great for a wall, lap, crib, wheelchair  quilt.

     

I've Gone CRAZY with HAND Embroidery

Notice the french knots in process.

Off and on, the past couple of months, I decided to sharpen up my embroidery skills.



Went crazy and ordered over 1,500 embroidery floss skeins.(as though I didn't have enough already.)

Being that those skeins will embellish most of  my  many upcoming future designs, the floss will not sit and collect cobwebs.

Most of these I drew freehand. The above piece is part of the teams' SUNNY project.

Notice the handmade yo-yo sun.

I finally embellished a  few crazy blocks that had been sitting around for a while.

There is a small amount of machine embroidery on a some of the blocks.

Can you see the embroidered watermelon in the photo above?? Yes, that IS a watermelon.LOL 

 I really did freehand dras the star and the tulip below.

 Are you able to see the tiny black beads accenting the red zeroes below?

 This flower below will become the center of a pocket in an upcoming project.

 The flower below will have an appliqued POT. This was my first idea for our SUNNY PROJECT, but then I changed my mind. (a girl can change her mind. I was planning to applique a sun above the flowers.)

 I freehand drew ALL of the flowers, and then did HAND EMBROIDERY. (can't you tell?)

 Beaded tulip below.

 The cat and fish. Such a catch. Will the cat have such luck? 

 Another crazy that I finally finished.

Four Needleturn Appliqued Cardinal Red birds

Following up on an earlier voting project click here, I have now finished the needleturn applique for four red birds. I made four totally new birds, and will use the original bird for some other project. I'm hoping to get this projec finished before the end of the year.(I'd better hurry)

The golden string of beads.

The golden string of beads will come to life eventually.













I'll make this story short and "antique". LOL. I purchased this container of a continuous string of beads more years ago than I can exactly remember. (at least 20) At that time, of course, I, as most crafters do, had great plans to cut the string of golden beads into various as needed lengths, and use them to embellish many wonderful handcrafted items. Well !!!













I found this container last week while looking through some long lost stacked up crafting boxes.

One point worth mentioning is that the store from where this item was purchased has long, long ago gone out of business. (but I still have THEIR beads and still maintain the strongest intention to use them in some gotta have hot new items)













Mind you, that my family would have long ago thrown them and much of my other crafting supplies out to the curb, were it not for my constant rebelling.













Moral of the story is: Never leave your noncrafting minded family in charge of your long lost crafting items; for one day for sure, you will find those long lost items and make NEW PLANS to bring them to life once again.