Friday, September 28, 2012

Tutorial ....

Edited 9/30/2012:    Per request, I added some patterns I created / used to the tutorial.    And enlarged some of the photographs (tho, I think if you click on them, they will enlarge on your computer screen).    

Welcome new readers from Craft Gossip dot com!    I was excited to be featured.     Link here.     


I have tried a step-by-step
tutorial for the 
that were favors for a recent NANI workshop.

or from the sidebar.

If you have questions, please send me an e-mail.



Barbara (and others who have asked):   
I hope to have the kanzashi tutorial up soon.

Monday, September 10, 2012

fun stuff + giveaway




Party Favors!!!

On Saturday, before the workshop began, each participant selected a gift bag.
Inside was the kit (instructions, linen, perle cottons, needles), an ort container
(made by the lovely and talented South Paw Stitcher)
and match book style needlebook - open the matchbook + there is felt where the matches should be.
(made by yours truly)

Interested in seeing photos of the stunning
show-n-tell?

Interested in having an ort container of your own?  
Along with some needlework stash?
Visit The Molly Giveaway post for details.

I am over the moon with my new patterns ...







Here are some of the designs I created on the matchbook covers:
and ... the ones left over from the workshop
will be sold at the Holiday Boutique.





Sewing Machine Day

Sewing Machine Day


Per Holiday Insights Web Page:

When : June 13th and September 10th

Sewing Machine Day celebrates a very important invention ----- the sewing machine. The first sewing machines were made in France in the 1830s. It wasn't until 1846, that they were patented in the U.S. What a great invention. Prior to it's creation, clothes items were sewn together by hand...stitch by stitch.

People who know how to use a sewing machine are dwindling in number. Our mothers and grandmothers had a sewing machine in the house. They used it, too. But, look around your house. Do you have a sewing machine? Chance are, the answers is no.

If you have a sewing machine, enjoy today making things with it. If not, consider picking up sewing as a hobby.


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