Thanks to you all for my birthday greetings. I did manage to pop in and see them on the day, but was unable to comment. I spent the whole weekend with musical friends and had a lovely time.
It is the time of year when we have a gift exchange to celebrate the Anniversary of the Cute website and forum. This time I am planning something a little different. It will be a closely guarded secret! If you would like to take part, please send an email
A small flotilla of little yellow ducks ready to set sail. These are stitched on EVA foam so they are weather proof for the garden.
Blooming Brilliant quilt block - made in 4 sections all joined in the hoop. The left hand picture is the 200mm size (finished size 40 cm) the right hand one is a mock up of how it could look as a quilt. It is available in a range of sizes from Engineered
I wonder how many of you remember the octagonal twist design I did a couple of years ago. I thought I would see how it worked stretched to fill my 230mm x 300mm hoop. I rather like it and will use these as placemats. When he who criticises saw the first o
I've never embroidered jeans before, but I was browsing Urban Threads and saw the tutorial about how to do pockets. I thought they had a really good idea about not unpicking the whole pocket. (Just leave a few stitches attached at the top.) The rest of t
Ready for my birthday (coming shortly!) This design is by Sue Lough here in England.
A gift for a yoga loving friend. The basic ITH A6 notebook cover is my own (available from Engineered in Stitches), but I added the yoga dog from Embroidery Library. The outer cover is made from linen ( recycled trousers) and the flaps and lining were fro
Saturday April 15th is Yellow Duck Day - so I've done a couple of hoops worth ready.
Another one for the dementia menagerie. For anyone who fancies making one - he has a little bell in one ear, rattly cellophane under the tractor fabric and cotton reels in the sock toe. The washers and nut are threaded on shoelace which is securely stitch
A sewing themed fiddle bunny. This was fun! I hope someone is kind enough to make me one if I ever need it.
ITH bag - made in four panels basically using my own modular tote design. The zipped pocket panel includes EPP hexagons I made from ice dyed fabric my daughter gave me. The pocketless panel is made from the tiny left over scraps under a layer of net. The
Using up the tiniest scraps of fabric. My daughter gave me a small bag of the scraps of ice-dyed material she had left over from a project. I cut hexagons out as far as possible but was left with this tiny fragments. I spritzed a piece of fabric with temp
I was showing the ladies of my J-club how to make a snap top pouch on Friday (on the sewing machine) and I ran out of tape measure. I toddled into Poundland yesterday a bought one , but they only had the wider tape. Anyroadup I digitised this ITH version
Denim Shirt from the supermarket plus a free design from Embroidery Library. One of the three free which were a bonus in the April Fools Day sale. It would have been rude not to buy......