Friends of ours have moved, unfortunately some distance away. She has red dishes, and loves red poppies. I found a panel with several repeats of poppy squares and coordinating fabric and decided to make some chenille potholders for her with coordinating dish towels. This set will be a housewarming gift. I have more of the poppies that could be made into one or more potholders and quite a bit of the coordinating fabric, too. But I will stop with these for now and get on with some other awaiting PIGS.


I found this pretty machine embroidery

 poppy motif to use on a housewarming card.


 

 

 

 

I just made these last night to slip in the Easter package for Julia. Motifs are from GGDesigns. I wish the bunny had a mouth and whiskers though.

For Emelie

machine embroidery

 

Time for Easter cards again, but not quite enough time to make as many as I had wanted. I did get two cross stitch motifs done for cards. The third card is a machine embroidery motif that I made a few years ago and didn't use. I have one more motif that was intended for a card, but it's only about half done and may not make it to greeting card status for this Easter.

 

For Leslie

Durene Jones 2017
faberge tulip egg

For Shirley

Shannon Wasilieff, 2018

 

 

 

These dresses are for Iris, Sonja and Julia for Easter. Although I selected the pattern and border prints based on a model on display at a local Ben Franklin store, it turned out that the skirt of the pattern was definitely not suitable for border prints. I was very disappointed that it was misrepresented, but the outcome, once I made modifications and won the Murphy's Law zipper war, pleased me. Now I just hope they fit!

 

For Iris







For Sonja

For Julia





This moebius scarf was a project I took on a ladies ski trip in early March. It's made with sock yarn. Wish I had found a prettier color, but I like the scarf.

Since my first post about my sewing table, I've made a couple of "improvements". I didn't like being able to see the PIGS in the plastic drawers. Although they are organized, it looked a little messy. I decided to cover some poster board with fabric from my SABLE to conceal the contents. I think they look much better.

 

Then DH and I put some marble-look shelf liner on the table surfaces (two more left to do in the picture). It will provide a slicker surface for quilting, and looks pretty good! If it doesn't hold up well, it can be peeled right off. I hope I don't need to do that.

 

My new(er) Pfaff sewing machine hung over my old sewing table by about 1". Enough to justify finally getting a new sewing table. I was afraid it was going to be too big, and it is big, but it works.

I've pulled out fabric to make a sewing machine cover and serger cover as soon as I can find time for something for me!

I love the extra space under the flip-up extension.

Notice I'm not showing the other side of my studio! LOL

I found the perfect sized large plastic drawers (budget-friendly) for this tempting storage space. I was able to put all my PIGS in the drawers with room to spare.

While I was waiting for casters for my new sewing table I set up my sewing machine on my cutting table. Not a very satisfactory arrangement, but I did manage to hem this square of fabric for a new table scarf. I thought it was going to go on an outdoor table, but didn't make it through the living room. 

This is fabric that somehow jumped into my cart when

I was at the fabric store. It's so amazing how that happens!