Embroidered Sewing Bag

The label and pocket for my Stitching Cow sewing bag. I'm hoping to finish this soon.

Merry Christmas Stitchery

I finally finished my Merry Christmas wallhanging!

Butterfly On My Heart

And here is No 4 - Butterfly On My Heart. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with the four blocks yet, so watch this space.

Bee On My Heart

This is the third of my On My Heart BOM blocks. I'm now working on the fourth - Butterfly On My Heart, and I'll post a photo of that soon.

Pink Bag (plus rose deco ...)

I thought the bag needed some decoration, so I made a rose from the Tilda book. I think it looks so much better now.

In the top photo you can see just how small the bag is!

Pink Bag

Oh dear, I've spent two days hand sewing this bag (from one of the Tilda books), but I cut the bottom corners in the wrong direction, so the bag won't stand up on its own! Never mind, I can still put things in it.

Here Kitty Scissors Cases

I finally finished these two. Instead of using herringbone stitch round the edges, I chickened out and used blanket stitch instead. One is for me, and one for Ang. The pattern was a free pattern from Lynette Anderson's blog.

Scissors Dolly

Finished the Scissors Dolly, which is from the same Stitching Cow pattern as the Cottage Pincushion. I tried curly doll hair ... didn't like it ... Then I tried the mohair I use to wig miniature dolls ... too "perfect" ... Then I tried this braid (Bunka?), which when unravelled looked OK. There is a pocket on the back of the dolly, to hold a pair of embroidery scissors.

Cottage Pincushion

Publish Post

I haven't been idle over the past few weeks, only I've kept jumping from one project to another and haven't got round to actually finishing anything ... So this Long Weekend I had to make sure I finished at least one thing, and here it is. This is from a Stitching Cow pattern, called Sewing Machine Friends. This is the cottage pincushion from that pattern. The second part of the pattern is a Scissors Dolly. I will post a photo of that when it's finish - hopefully over the next few days. (By the way - the stitched lines are supposed to be crooked!)

Blue Bird On My Heart

This is the other bird from the On My Heart BOM. This one's called Blue Bird On My Heart. The fabric I chose for the bird looked more pink than blue, but it "blued" up once I'd added the blanket stitch!

I'll probably make the bee and butterly ones too, and combine them to make a quilted wallhanging. The other two BOMs are an angel - but I'm not too fond of angels so I don't think I'm going to make that block ... and a sewing-themed one, which would look nice on a bag.