just one
I have been ill since Friday so even though I made lots of floral arrangements in that time till now, I only took a picture of one. So here is the one it is about 2 1/2 feet tall.
letter art from Vavo = vote
This came in the mail today from my vavo. We get stuff like this about once a month from her just thought it was cute so I decided to post it.
Playing with letters and embroidery
I have wanted our family name for a long time on an item. I dare you to find the name Harbaugh on anything. I am not counting football stuff I know there is some football player with that as a last name but that isn’t the type of thing I want. So today, yes day off, I sat down and was playing with these letters. I had to enlarge some as they don’t print out at the same size but that is fine. But I have my lay out and now I just need to transfer it to linen and embroider it, when I have time that could be a while. Not sure if I want to do traditional redwork or put color in the flowers.
This is currently 6 inches tall and 36 inches wide. Once it gets a boarder buffer I think that should be a nice size. Will probably be 10 inches by 40 inches maybe a little more.
Flowers
This is for a funeral this morning; I made it last night before leaving work. The man really loved being in the outdoors, thus the pine cones, cat tails, mushrooms, and a whittled bear and moose on the casket piece. I love the colors in this, bright yet dark and rich.
Matching easel:
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1. romanian lace cord tutorial video, 2. sils rug in progress, 3. pin on apron, 4. new skirt, 5. the start of three dresses? or just shirts, 6. Christmas garland, 7. on tree, 8. side by side,
9. hung on tree, 10. front with out buttons but after star, 11. knitting machines, 12. poinsettia / The journey, 13. kid airplane ornament, 14. toile apron made by aunt george, 15. more blooms, 16. butterfly pillow,
17. suzyhomemakers mini quilt is done, 18. This block is made by clare, 19. 1st finished butterfly for curtain, 20. 3rd butterfly on curtain, 21. lt and dk pink tatting, 22. hex granny squares, 23. antique tatting, 24. more antique tatting,
25. front, 26. redwork butterfly signature block, 27. style d, 28. layette set, 29. crazy daisies, 30. flower tutorial, 31. English Paper piecing tutorial, 32. bubble gum pink quilt #1,
33. SRE = silk ribbon embroidery, 34. lazy daisy week 3, 35. temari, 36. back side dove, 37. felt ornament dove, 38. felt snow man done, style:christmas colors
#6 in 111 edgings communter lace
This is the one I have been working on for the last few days commuting. It’s hard to tell, but this is about 5 inches wide — a real big piece of lace. The thread is antique; I have about seven balls of this, so I will make it as long as possible with all seven.
boutonnières and corsages and a handtie
We had 5 weddings in-house yesterday! I worked on 3 of them and forgot to take pictures of tons of stuff I made. It was so busy — I got to work at 8:25 am and left work about 9:00 pm; long day! I just forgot, I only got a few of the little things I made and forgot to take pictures of the coolest things; oh well, that is how it goes.
Boutonnieres:
flower: kermit mum and gerber daisy
flowers: hypericum and gerber daisy
Corsages:
flower: the white one hydrangea
Hand tie:
Floral
Two casket pieces that I made yesterday. One is inexpensive (the second one, the pink and yellow), the other is not. They are both nice, but I prefer the one with more flowers because it is more pleasing to my eye. They are about the same length, as you can tell by looking at things at my work station, but there is a $140.oo price difference from one to the other.
Lace Number 5 from 111 easy edgings
So far, the book is true to its name; they are easy edgings. I know the pineapple one didn’t look that way, but if you memorized three small parts, the rest sort of worked itself out. Yesterday I had meetings, again, at my kids’ school. I get to be a substitute art teacher there. I know, how is that going to work with my current job? I do not know because one is my bread and butter, and one is part of a dream job. So, I will have to take that one day at a time. Anyway, during the breaks, and at lunch time, I worked on pattern 5 from the 111 easy edging book. It is an insertion, although you could use it as an edging. I have no idea if I had a full or partial ball because it was purchased at a thrift store without a wrapper, so I also have no idea how old the thread is. However, I tend to think it is fairly new thread and not vintage, but I really like the color pattern in it. The amount of thread I had made a lace that is 2 1/2 yards long.
pattern 3 and 4 from 111 easy edgings
I started this one yesterday while I was in meetings at my kids school getting ready for the new year. In the break times I worked on this lace. I have lots of this thread it was a real big ball so it will be fun to see how long this one gets. Also on a side note I am doing all of these laces in ruffly size 10 thread and a size 6 hook so I can compare their finished sizes always hard to see in a book how big or little they are in relation to each other.
I also started and finished edging four. I used a an antique pearl cotton for it that only had 65 yards on a ball so I got about 2 feet of lace. Which is still useful for aprons and crazy quilts and things of that sort.
Even though I will be working on number 3 for a while I may start number 5 today as well to give me lots of stuff to work on in the car.
