Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Stained glass pictures

 My husband finished framing and hanging all the embroidered stained glass pictures and they are absolutely beautiful.























I also put the Heritage Quilt on our bed in place of the Latte Quilt which was on our bed since 2010.


The Latte Quilt - an extremely old photo from before the fire of 2014.
(The very first quilt I made - this post as well as this one refers.)

The two done in shades of purple below are in the guest room complimenting the satin/tafetta quilt I made in 2015.


Advanced beginner quilt

I added a turquoise border to the remaining butterfly which brought out the colors beautifully and gifted it to a dear friend of mine who had it framed in silver.

So proud of these beautiful embroideries.

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Shadow Trapunto Quilt No. 2

I finished the second one, yeah!  When I started with them last year, we intended to hang them above our bed on both sides, but that spaces will now be filled with two of the stained glass embroidered pictures.  So I stitched away on this one not quite knowing what to do with it, but I found a place on the coffee table, so no time wasted.



Sunday, June 14, 2020

Playmats done

The playmats and accessories for our two grandsons are finished and it is quite amazing what a border or two can do to a project.

Nathan's playmat

Aiden's playmat
The play pieces and dice.  I made the same for both boys.

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Weddings

I have been working on various projects the past month as well as battling the old flue.  Some of the stained glass pictures have been framed and hanged and one was gifted.  I will do a follow up post on all of those once they are all done.

I also made 2 more sewing pouches for gifts (this post) and almost finished the 2 playmats I made for our two grandsons as the lockdown levels were eased and I was able to buy all the stuff needed to finish the various projects.

With lockdown phasing out, couples are once again able to get married, so I also made some wedding gifts for friends of mine to gift at a wedding later this month.



The happy couples son will also receive his own towel.


I also played around with different ideas to embroider on masks for another couple, but what started out as a fast little project turned out rather tedious as some of the free designs going around on the internet are of little or no quality at all.  So, after a disaster or two, we finally settled on Mr and Mrs in fancy lettering which quilting friend Hanlie will stitch into masks. 😀




Clover and stitch

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