Although the sun was not as generous today as it was yesterday, and the coming and going of clouds and rain brought on the usual headache, I am happy to report that the eyeglass case that completes the set of three blues is finished.


To celebrate (and also because another eyeglass case I am working on needed some blocking before I could sew it up) I treated myself to stitching on a pocket mirror.






Thank you for visiting!

Wishing you all the best,

I am not sure how the sun felt about seeing my face today, but I sure was happy to see the sun shine again. Even my needles worked faster, so I managed to finish two pouches of the blu set.

The change purse:



And the phone pouch:


The eyeglass case is all embellished, too, just needs to be sewn up. But that's tomorrow's story...

Wishing you all a beautiful week,

Enjoy!

One of the things I learned in the crazy quilting round robins is that, while sometimes a little bit scary,





Wishing you all a happy, creative week!

Remember my "Silk'n roses" garland? Today it was "gossiped" about over at Needlework Craftgossip in relation with Valentine's Day. Thank you Denise Felton for all the kind words!


Valentine's Day is not traditionally celebrated in my part of the world, but that is no reason why I couldn't make a small gift to everyone who celebrates it and also likes silk ribbon embroidery, is it?
This is the pattern of my rose garland heart:


and it is free for you to download and embroider if you'd like. Enjoy!


Let me know if you do embroider it, I would love to see your work.

Happily stitchy days, Everyone!

Can you tell how much I miss spring?






I could really, really use some sunshine now...

Have a lovely day, Everyone!

Another finish during this weekend is a phone pouch.



I had tucked it away in my lace drawer, waiting for just the right piece to use it on. Twice :)

Snow has been coming and going and most days have been so cloudy and grey, that I sought refuge from all that in my studio, where I am always free to choose the colors, the flowers, the laces and whatever makes me feel good.




How about you? Would you have added more?

Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday,

Wishing you all a beautiful day,

Getting the pattern right for the clasp frame just kept bugging me. I even dreamt that I was redrawing it, making complicated calculations, using some really weird measuring tools...LOL
So I had to make another one, this time a little bit wider at the hinges of the clasp frame.




Have a fun weekend, Everyone!

 

After finishing up the flower fairy phone pouch (tried several threads to outline the butterfly, but as none of them seemed right, in the end decided to just leave it as it was),





How cute are those little fairies reading their fairy tales book?!

Hope you are all having a wonderful day!

Last, but not least in this DYB it was the turn of Ati's block for me to work on. She pieced lovely white-off white blocks, each with a vintage piece of crochet lace or cutwork embroidery in the center and we were to use white, off white and silver embellishments.


Have a beautiful day, Everyone!

 

PS: I know I promised you the tutorial for the rosebud and leaves to be my next post, but I have been having a hard time taking good photos - and believe you me, I have been trying - so consider this post the one before the next and be sure that the tutorial will be posted too, as soon as I can take usable photos.