June 24, 2012

Little House Needleworks Famine Relief chart link



Little House Needleworks Famine Relief chart
Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks decided to offer this chart on her web site and kindly ask that you consider making a donation to your charity or maybe World Vision or UNICEF before you begin your download. Both organizations are working hard to provide food and assistance on a large scale to bring an end to the suffering they see daily.



June 16, 2012

Needle roll



Sampler Guild Annual retreat Needleroll project

Bear quilt

This is a quilt a friend of mine did. Isn't it beautiful? Its all applique.

June 15, 2012

Back of Bless Our Home

Lizzie Kate "Bless Our Home"


Sampler Guild of the Rockies Annual Retreat project.
I added my daughter and her husband's initials and mailed to them for their new home.
It was stitched and mounted on matboard layers.



June 11, 2012

Ort Catcher front


One of  our Sampler Guild Annual retreat projects. I loved doing this. had been a while since I had done any applique type projects. This was fun and quick using wool felt and basic embroidery stitches.


Ort catcher inside

Inside with catcher

Greek Thread Minder


Front
A Sampler Guild project. I stitched this for a dear friend of mine




 

Back with Greek lettering

Inside
 


Finished Precious Moments Baby Sampler

Hope to get it framed this week. Its for my niece in Englands new little boy.
I changed the info part since the pattern was limited.

June 10, 2012

Tudor Rose Mystery Story and Sampler

Last Friday I saw this on a blog and fell in love with it. Wen to Amy Mittens Web Sight and tried to decide if i was goin gto order it or not. I decied to wait. And much to my luck!! I went to our http://www.samplerguildoftherockies.org/ annual retreat and lo and behold!! One of the ladies there had the kit for sale in her Stash reduction sale. I mean how lucky was that????

Tudor Rose Mystery Sampler close up

Tudor motif close up


Close up of the Tudor Motif

June 03, 2012

Shepherds Bush Wandering Vine afghan

I promised this to my youngest for Christmas this year. Its been a fun quick stitch using the #5 threads on Anne Cloth. Squeezing it in between samplers & other commitments has been a challenge tho. Now to get the border completed.

May 26, 2012

Strawberry Shortcake afghan

Strawberry Shortcake afghan for my daughter. I stitched this a few yrs back. Just now found the picture.

Afghan 3

Afghan 2

Wildflower Afghan

This afghan I stitched a few years back for my mom. Just now got pics on it. I used several wildflower charts and Anne cloth. She uses it as a tablecloth.

May 10, 2012

The Happy Couple

Just had to post a picture of my beautiful daughter and her new husband.

April 29, 2012

Mary Beale pincushion

Stitched this for a pin cushion exchange for our Sampler Guild of the Rockies annual exchange.

April 18, 2012

Completed Band 11 on The Loara Standish sampler. You can see it here Loara Standish Sampler Blog

February 02, 2012

Biscornu flip side

Designed for our Sampler Guild by Janice Woods. Stitched on 28 ct Nordic Blue Linen.

Biscornu

January 30, 2012

L&L In Progress

Hopefully the stitching time will increase
as the wedding plans are almost completed.

Shower invite

Invites I made for her Bridal Shower.

Invite tied

Tucked the smaller bundle into the invitation and tied it up with a ribbon.

RSVP tied

I added the reception timeline inside the reception card and then tied all of it together with a little bow.

Reception card

Then tucked those into the Reception Notice

RSVP envelope


I tucked the RSVP in the preaddressed stamped envelope

Menu

I decided to add the menu to the inside of the RSVP card so they can select their meal choice

RSVP card


RSVP Card

Wishing well card

They decided to do a Wishing Well so I found this wonderful saying online andmade this little card

Working on Wedding Invitations


My baby girl is getting married. Not much stitching time right now.

January 06, 2012

Biscournu

Five stitched strips ready to assemble at the Sampler Guild of the Rockies meeting.

December 11, 2011

Sampler Guild Ornament Exchange

Valerie stitched this lovely beaded ornament and I was the lucky recipient. Isn't it just wonderful?