TUSAL/New Moon

Side view!

View from the top!

I forgot to post, for my TUSAL,  as I was gone for a few days! I did get more stitching in, the yellow is from the frog that came to the house! Glad he left!

Happy Stitching!

Mary

Custom Sampler/Update

I have been working on this now for a few days! I did get far! I have page 2 finished, as of 2/09/2012. this is a picture of the updated sampler, what it should look like when I am finished, with Andrea and Glenn's wedding date added. I do want to get this finished now.

With Andrea and Glenn's Wedding Date added

This is Oct. 2011, the last time I worked on it from Nov. 2010

This from October 2011

This is where I am as of February 9, 2012, page 2 is now finished!

I am so happy that I picked this up to work on again!

Yes, it is big 30x30!

I will be working on this till the next Full Moon in March! Hoping I can keep up making some more progress! 

On The Home Front

We are having a party for my dad, he will be turning 85 on the 15th of February! So this weekend we will be getting together, I am hoping all of us can be there, it's not everyday you turn 85!

Enjoy the Day!

Mary

WIPocalypse~2/6/2012 Full Moon

I am very surprised at myself as to how far I got, I know to some of you it doesn't look like much, but being a mood stitcher (when I'm in the mood to stitch) somehow I don't have the mood to stitch everyday! I started working on this, a few years back, my husband picked this out for Andrea, at the time, she wasn't going out with anyone special, but since Joe passed away, I thought I would still get this done for her, she found the man of her dreams, last February 2011, and got engaged in March, and married in September of 2011. I didn't have time to get it finished! This is what it looked liked as of, the last time I worked on it was sometime back in October of 2009.

When I started back on it in January of 2012

This is where I am as of February 5, 2012 I am hoping to get this done by her First Anniversary! I still have another Wedding Sampler to get started on for my nephew's wedding this coming September, his is going to be a Wedding Tree, from Nouveau Encore Designs, I want to start that soon... So a drum roll....this is where I am at now! It doesn't look like much, but to me it does!

As of February 5, 2012

I would still work on this but I am getting bored with it at the moment, so next on the list will be my 40th  Anniversary Sampler (August of 2012), now a Memorial Sampler to my husband, sad to say after he passed away in March of 2010, I couldn't work on it for a whole year. I worked on it for a few weeks in  October of 2011, this is where I left off, page 2 of 12!

Enjoy!

Mary

Last Week!!!!

I always wanted to try to make some Q-Snap covers, so last week I made one! It didn't come out too bad,
this is the back side.

Back side

Front

This one fits the 8x8 size Q-Snaps. I am working on an 11 x 11 one next.

This is for the 8x8

Supplies needed are:

cotton fabric - 33 x 7 inches

elastic - 2 pieces of 1/4 inch elastic cut to 17 inches each

thread, safety pin, scissors, iron, sewing machine, 5 minutes

First I cut the fabric into a 33 x 7 inch piece. Then pressed under 1/4 inch seam allowance on each long edge. I then folded this over again, making a 3/4 inch pocket on each side and pressed again. You can always make the width wider if you have a lot of fabric.

Next sew a pocket onto each side of the fabric

Next cut two pieces of elastic, each 17 inches long and attach a safety pin to one end.

Thread the safety pin through the pocket.....and attach elastic to end of pocket by sewing in place...

after threading remainder of elastic through pocket,  secure elastic at opposite end.

Thread elastic through other  pocket and secure both ends

Now join both ends together to form the cover and sew together

I hope this came out for you! 

Happy Stitching!

Mary