Julia's birthday, 2023

My most recent finishes are for Julia's birthday. 

Julia uses a mini notebook to practice her spelling words, so I made her a personalized cover for it.

I found a video tutorial for this little notebook online.

The motif for the card is a free
chart from Durene Jones (2021)

Whispers in the Wind, Quilt

I was inspired at my sewing group by a friend's quilt she showed, so I made one for myself. The pattern is Whispers in the Wind by Julie Weaver. I added the flying geese blocks to the border. Read Whispers In The Wind Online (scribd.com)

I did a simple stitch-in-the-ditch quilting and added a machine embroidery pattern in the large triangles in the center.

Knitting ~ Comfort Shawl

I finished this shawl in February. It will most likely be a comfort shawl at some point. I used some leftover yarn: Caron Jumbo yarn (#4 weight) ~ Color "Country Basket" ~ Size 8 needles. I used about 16 oz. The shawl measured about 52" long, but I would rather have it 60". Next time I'll measure better before binding off, but I was riding in the car. I used a decorative bind off and then matched it on the beginning end.

Pillowcases for Valentin

 These are the March and April pillowcases for Valentin.

Memory Board for Sonja

Sonja is decorating her room in their new house. Leslie thought she could use a French memory board, so we made one for her while they were here.

2023 Valentines

 I'm finally up to posting my 2023 crafts. 

These are the machine embroidery Valentine cards I made using a design from Embroidery Online.

2022 Christmas cards and tuck-ins

These are my 2022 exchange Christmas cards. They go to a special group of my online friends. I also enclosed some IFAQH hearts.

Machine embroidery penguins
from embroiderydesigns.com
These are redwork designs stitched on
felt and colored with pens.

IFAQH.com
I Found A Quilted Heart

Memorial ornament

This is a memorial ornament I made for my friend, Susan, in remembrance of her husband who died in December, 2022.

This is a machine embroidery pattern from
 Kreative Kiwi.com.

Fabric ornaments for Stitched Together friends

Here are some fabric ornaments that Kathy and I made for our Stitched Together friends. (2022)

Afghan knitting

I made these two afghans for myself to replace some older ones.  I used Premier Puzzle yarn for both of these. The teal one was Color #1050-18 (Dominos).  I don't know what the blue color is called. I used one of my favorite ripple patterns.

Felt kit ornaments

Emelie likes felt ornaments and Matthias likes red and white for Christmas decorations. This Bucilla Nordic Christmas kit seemed perfect to make for them. (Christmas 2022)

Pillowcases for Valentin

2023 will be the year for Valentin to receive his monthly pillowcases from Mimi. I finished the January and February ones in December and gifted the January pillowcase for his birthday (December 26).

Embellished craft tote

I finally made time to embellish my plain black craft tote with some cute fabric. I've been meaning to do this for a long time. I backed the appliques with interfacing, then glued them on and reinforced them by stitching them down.

Christmas 2022 ~ Stocking stuffers and ornaments

Christmas 2022

For stocking stuffers, everyone got a different "poop bag" with appropriate-appearing candy.  

And here are the 2022 ornaments I made for Iris, Sonja, Julia and Valentin, plus a couple for friends (1 not pictured). The machine embroidery deisgn is free from Kreative Kiwi.com. Free In the hoop Snow Globe (kreativekiwiembroidery.co.nz)

Machine embroidery on sweatshirts

These are shirts I embellished with machine embroidery for grandchildren for Christmas, 2022.

Christmas, 2022

for Iris

for Sonja

for Julia

for Valentin

The "magic basket"

 During some web surfing I found a video tutorial for this "magic basket", so I tried it.  (200) 퀼트 No.143 요술 바구니(Magic basket), 퀼트바구니 만들기, How to make, 네이버블로그 토마토캔디 - YouTube’

Laundry room hamper liners

I thought our laundry hamper liners were a little ragged from a cat clawing on them, so I sewed some new ones.

Placemats

 I made placemats for Leslie to coordinate with the table runner I made for her birthday.

Christmas, 2022

Gnome wall hanging for Sonja

 I got everyone involved in this gnome wall hanging to give to Sonja for her birthday (November, 2022). Sonja participated, too. The pattern is one block of Fat Cat Patterns quilt "Gnome for the Holidays".