I’ve been so busy this spring and summer, but good things are on their way! We recently purchased a house and are preparing to move in a few weeks. I can’t wait to have a dedicated space for all my art and craft supplies! I’m hoping that it will motivate me to make more things, …
A few weeks ago I went on a trip and visited a friend. She sews professionally, having studied at an atelier in France. I had wanted to make something for her for a long while, especially as she gifted me a lovely collection of quilting fabrics over the pandemic. I made this needlebook for my …
I wanted to make some fabric Christmas tags this year that we can reuse year after year. I am so inspired by the ones Amy Sinibaldi and Kristyne Czepuryk made in their 2012 Holiday Tag-a-Long. Amy makes some of the cutest things! I found the patterns for her tags’ appliques in an article she wrote …
I recently finished two new needlebooks, both for myself for different purposes, but they are fun to make and easy to personalize. I find it very useful to have a needlebook on hand to keep your needles and a few favorite pins in. They are slightly different – which design do you prefer? Minki Kim …
Remember that Holly & Evergreen embroidery I was working on? I finished the embroidery and put it on the cover of my fiance’s new choirbook! My fiance is a Christmas caroler over the holidays, and has been asking for a new choirbook cover. While a plain one would have sufficed, I wanted to make something …
While I haven’t been posting very much this year, I am still finding time to make things! I have a pair of beautiful embroidery scissors from Maison Sajou, and all these years I’ve been keeping them in the little box they came in. I’ve been wanting to make an equally beautiful scissor sheath to put …
Do you have a favorite way to transfer embroidery designs onto your fabric? I usually print out designs on Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy but the design I chose has lots of satin stitch dots and fighting with the sticky stabilizer didn’t sound like a lot of fun to me. I bought an LED tracing pad a …
I recently made this Denim & Sashiko Tote as a way to practice sashiko. This tote comes this together quickly – the hardest part was choosing the fabric for patches! The design is Karen Steven’s Side Handle Gusset Tote, and I can highly recommend it! In the instructions she encourages personal expression in the embroidery …
I found some time during my end of year staycation to make an embroidered ornament! Making Christmas ornaments is one of my favorite things to do during November and December, and yet it’s also one of those things that seems to get put off every year (like writing holiday cards!). My small tree has a …