I don't know who I make these for...

Our grandkids, great great grandkids, or me? For a link to the close pin tutorial "click" here.

For a link to the finger puppet tutorial..."click" here

I've been busy

In a little over a year we have become great great grandparents to seven babies, I have taken up sewing and learning to crochet again...

I am such a procastinator...

I started this pillowcase set in 2013, came across it while organizing my sewing room, walla--DONE!

Rome wasn't built in a day!!

I started this in 2015. Many weddings have passed so I will have to wait until the next one before adding words to it and framing. Until then, in the dresser drawer it goes with all my other UFO's!

I am surprised I have any hair left

I just realized my pattern is going to run off the cloth. I am on page 21 of 31 pages and there is only enough material for 5 more pages. Aaagh!!!















If I end it here I have a cover for my footstool. I am thinking of starting a new piece--starting with page 15, ending with page 31. I think I will have enough to cover my piano stool. I will start in the center of the fabric and work to the outside, staying in a circle the size of the piano stool. I think I don't know what I am talking about. So much for lemonade...

I Demolished My Wall Hanging

I spent the morning learning how to to machine satin stitch around my applique pieces, totally wrecking every corner of every block of my wall hanging. After I ran out of corners I started in the middle of my leaves and 'walla'--I finally got the hang of it!!!

See what happens...

When you try to enlarge a pattern! The rectangular piece wound up short of what was needed to wrap around the car.

I tweaked the pattern a bit--problem solved.

OK, today I made my first baby beanie AND I finally learned how to use the automatic needle threader on my CS 6000i sewing machine--which I LOVE...

For the hat I found a great video on YouTube "click here for link". I didn't quite get how to do the crown so I searched Googleland for clearer instructions.

I found written instructions, with pictures, for a beanie (with a lining) "click here for link".

For pattern sizes "click here for link".

A bit tricky for me, but I can't wait to do one for myself. Anyway, I will find out if my head is large or extra large...

My Baby Bootie Disaster

It has been fourteen years since my one and only crochet project, a baby afghan (picture under category Needlework, My Stuff). OMG, I don't remember one tiny tiny bit of what I did, not even the size needle I used. I finally found the original pattern for the afghan and I actually used two needles. One was still attached to a square I had been practicing on.

I have been through over a half skein of yarn trying to crochet this bootie. I can not figure out where to insert my hook into the beginning stitch of each row and have probably one hundred or more booties like the one below---aaagh! Because I never start each row in the same place', I wind up adding or deleting all kinds of stitches. I am actually starting to carry my project with me where ever I go, looking for someone who does crocheting.

The following video couldn't be more clearer, but I am still not getting it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnw27t33Uoc&t=360s

I can't wait for summer, I need all the leaves I can find!

My second attempt at a bird...

I did not know you could embroider leaves!

In poking around Google+ I came across this awesome lady "click here for link". I love her works! Did you know you can embroider leaves? We have had snow, here in Rochester, NY, but I did manage to find leaves while on visits to doctor's, dining out and shopping for groceries. My first attempt at embroidering leaves--it turned out to be a cross between a bird and a fish; I will call it my Flying Fish!

Going through some of dad's stuff (World War I)

A couple of dad's World War I sketches while serving in France...

My First and Only Baby Afghan

I purchased this pattern in 1973; finally started and finished it thirty years later (2003) . I have decided I want to crochet again and don't remember a thing on how to crochet.

I kinda like making pillowcases...