>peter cotton tail progress
27 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in embroidery, holiday:easter, needlework
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peter cotton tail progress, originally uploaded by sunshine’s creations.
>Finished…pictures speak loader than words
13 Sep 2010 4 Comments
in crochet, Needlelace, needlework, romanian point lace
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>Antique/New collar in the making
05 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in heirloom sewing, Needlelace, needlework
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This collar is being made out tennerife lace that was made on a Palma hand loom over 100 years ago. The thread is from the same time as is the linen battenberg tapes. this will be an adult size collar when done. I am using fagoting stitches to hold everything together. I will probably line it with netting when done just to give it some added strength.
I hope to make some shirts/blouses for myself in the future with heirloom sewing techniques employee just have to find a good pattern for a blouse that looks circa 1900-1920. If you know of one please recommend it to me in the comments with a link thanks.
Now that I have my little brothers stuff done I am back on track for tutorials. One will be posted tomorrow I made it today but still have to go through the photos and type it all in.
>Cross Stitch Elephant done
16 Jan 2010 2 Comments
in embroidery, needlework, repair work
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Plenty more to do on this cross stitch but the elephant is done on to the other three animals and boarders. Below you can compare the before and after. May not look much different but if you do cross-stitch you know you are looking at hours of my work added to her hours to get this where it is.
>Cross Stitch
15 Jan 2010 2 Comments
in embroidery, needlework, repair work
>I was commissioned to finish an already started cross stitch for a lady and do half of another one that isn’t even started yet. When she dropped off the patterns the one that is started didn’t have its cover image anymore so I looked on the internet so I could have a color diagram as well as the black and white copy.
The first one has to be done in the next 1 to 2 months as you can see all that is done is part of the little elephant it has a long ways to go to say the least.
This is what it needs to look like when done not my work.
This is a discontinued pattern as far as I can tell.
This is what it needs to look like when done not my work.
This photo is from Coloray’s website.
So if you want to make one you can go there and get a kit.
>New Pincushion/ do you want a tutorial
10 Nov 2008 8 Comments
in family, needlework, sewing
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In the items in Great-grandma’s stuff was a real cool pincushion, and a not-completed pincushion of the same fashion. So, after studying them for a while, I thought I figured out how to make one. I was correct, but about 90% the way through I figured out a better way of sewing the section pieces together. They should have been sewn into 4 sets of clusters of three pieces each. If any one wants to make one let me know. I sewed mine one piece at a time onto the main section, and just kept adding to that, which in the end made it a little hard to add the last piece. That could have been a lot easier, but I still very much like the end result. I added a tassel; hers did not have one, but I thought it would look better hanging. Don’t ask me why, but most pincushions (pinkeeps) I make for myself always have to be hung up. I just like them that way. I will try to take a picture of the two she had today or tomorrow and post them. I liked them so much and figured I wouldn’t get to keep one, so I made one of my own.
My husband wants me to make another the other way and make a tutorial so others can make one, too. If anyone is interested in a tutorial, let me know in this post and I will try to get to it in the near future.
The fabric and batting for this one was gifted to me, so all it cost me was my time which was most of Saturday. Because I was home sick from work, I needed something to keep my hands busy. I am feeling much better today.
>Berries, Beads, Sequins
22 Jul 2008 2 Comments
in beadwork, family, kids art, needlework, sewing
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So, I had Monday off of work and my daughters wanted to make something with Mom. We had gone to a quilt fair last week (I was bad; forgot to take pictures even though I had my camera). Anyway, at the quilt fair there was a garage sale and a free table; the girls grabbed all kinds of little scraps from the free table. 
This is where the story begins. They have been pestering me, in a good way, to figure out what to make with those fabric scraps. Then Saturday they went to a church activity with their Pai, and one daughter came home from the festivities with a small bag of wood shavings (something about digging through wood shavings to find candy). I was at work so not sure what happened at the activity. So, add this to the pile of stuff they want to craft with.
Scraps of fabric and wood shavings, to me, equal berries. So we got to cutting out 12 berries and inners (yes this hurts my wrist, but the girls were having fun). I sewed them on the sewing machine, then the middle daughter stuffed and the oldest daughter and myself sewed the tops closed. 
This was easy for her because it was just like closing a yo yo, which she has made tons of. Then we got out my sizzixx and some green antique wool and a flower dye cut and cut tops for these.
Next, I handed the oldest two a jar of sequins and said they could embellish the berries. The youngest thought she was too young to do this, although we asked if she wanted to. She said “no” and proceeded to tell the oldest just how she wanted her three berries to look in the end. I used beads instead of sequins on my velvet berry; I liked my other two left alone because the upholstery fabric was cool as is.
I printed the pattern for the berries off of Martha, but I didn’t even read the instructions; after all, berries are easy to make. 
Make a muslin liner, stuff and close, then make an outer shell and place liner in it and close. Attach greens and hanger and embellish; done.
Now each daughter has three berries for needles and is started on her way to having her own sewing kit. We will have to work on this more this summer. Next up, tomato pin cushion.
Want to use emery you can find it here in 50 lb lots and what is emery.
>Old sweaters/ Conference Saturday project
05 Apr 2008 5 Comments
in embroidery, fabric, free patterns quilts, free patterns sewing, junking, needlework, quilts, sewing, tutorials
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So, what to do while listening to conference on Saturday Morning and afternoon. Get rid of the pile of old sweaters sittings at the foot of my bed that I have been meaning to tear apart for awhile. So, as you now know, I had a bunch of old sweaters (cotton rayon blend); these all had some sort of embroidery. Not really my style any more, and most didn’t fit well, either. So what to do with them?
- First, salvage all the buttons; lots of good MOP (mother of pearl) buttons on these sweaters to be saved, and a few cool beads. After you pillage the buttons and such, what next?
- Cut as many 9 1/2 inch squares as you can, save short sleeves (I have another project for them in mind) and the large scraps (same project).
- Cut white 100% cotton fabric squares, also 9 1/2 inches square. (I have not done this step, yet). I plan to back with cotton fabric to help prevent the wavy look I have seen on other such afghans. Don’t know if this will work, but I will give it a try. I plan on using 1/2 inch seam allowance. Bigger than normal, but I am hoping this will help with some raveling that may happen.
- When all are sewn together with a bat and a back, I want to tie the front to the back with crow feet quilting. A sort of quick quilting-tie with an embroidery look.
- Bind edges; I am thinking old silk from same pile of clothes to get rid of, or old-fashioned satin blanket binding. There are also jeans in this stack to add to my jean braided rug.
I think it will be cute and if not, it will still useful.
>Happy Chinese / Japanese New Year
07 Feb 2008 4 Comments
in holiday:new years, holiday:school/misc, needlework, oriental art, origami, paper arts, temari
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>Embroidered Fairy / More Oya
26 Nov 2007 Leave a Comment
in embroidery, needlework, Oya
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Fairy I embroidered late Saturday night for a swap. Skin, wings and branch use size 30 crochet thread; rest is size 5 embroidery thread. I was experimenting with thickness of thread for depth and softness. Don’t know if it worked well.
More Oya links:
The first one actually shows the knot stitch up close for a second ,and you can replay that part to learn it. The second is eye candy.
- Ellerin Türküsü – Kanal B / Gönen İğne Oyası
- Kellskorner’s Weblog
- Dantel Oda -Salon – Vitrin Takımı Örnekleri
- GÖNEN İĞNE OYALARI RESMİ WEB SİTESİ ( 13 video links on this page)
- Article in Turkish page 32 page 3
- Oya festival
Here is a link to all the Oya posts I have done in case you want to see what has or has not been found on the subject.
