welcome march!

 embroidery on toile fabric, beaded embellishing on the flag

 inkjet printed pima cotton poplin , machine embroidered onto scrim; hand embroidered onto crazy quilt block

 seam treatment embroidery, showing vintage Japanese silk charmeuse piece

March crazy quilt block! for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2014

One Crazy Quilt Block

the first of twelve blocks is complete - here is a close up of a horse I embroidered, simply following the pattern already printed on the fabric - that made it easier :)

The theme for the blocks is Psalm 111, and I have printed out on cotton fabric all the verses.  The first block features the first verse.  I chose as the prominent pattern a light blue "toile" featuring carousel horses, which run off the carousel....

The blocks will each be hexagons.
Thank you for visiting!

Ornaments! Advent and Christmas

it has a been a while since my last post, but I have time to publish a few ornaments I recently made ~

perhaps one will inspire you to make some too :)


For this ornament, I cut 2 hexagons (approx. 4 inches wide); one of gingerbread colored felt, and the other a bit larger (to include seams) of small red and white gingham  -

embellishing the felt top with beads, lace, ribbon, a bit of embroidery -



then, started to sew it all up with pearl cotton and beads...stuffing with wool as I went, and sewing in some ribbon at the top for hanging...and added little mulberry paper roses at the top.


Luke 1:4  That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.

Stirred.., not shaken

continuing embroidery work 
                 ...some patchwork, some embroidery....

"...stir up the gift of God, which is in thee...For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."  2 timothy 1:6-7

"...that ye be not soon shaken in mind..." 2 thessalonians 2:2

"And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken remain." 
hebrews 12:27