Merry Christmas 2014

And suddenly there was with the angels a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the Highest and Peace and Goodwill to all men.

Plate Pockets

I am lucky enough to have two sets of dishes.  One for summer and one for winter.  The ones in storage are always in danger -- yes real danger of being chipped,  dropped or just messed up with the usual dust issues.  I started thinking I would look for a pattern for some sort of cover up for them....

Then I just decided to design it myself.  Leftovers from other projects and bits of batting....

I also wanted to experiment with invisible zippers as I had just seen a sewing show on TV about putting them in with your regular sewing foot.

TaDaaa...

I am really happy with the plate ones.  I wonder if I can manage to make some for soup bowls and saucers.

More Gone Fishin'

Progress is being made.  These shapes are pretty cute and I am having good success at getting each fish to finish up at 2 1/2" by 6 1/2".

Quite a pile of trimmings though.

Now for the borders...

Taking a break to make a Fishy project...

Stop the presses, or rather I am voluntarily stopping my current projects to make this one for someone special.  Content warning...there are fish....

Here's the cutting piles,

These are the carcasses of the fish.  Stitch and flip to make the fishy shapes.  The pattern by Four

And I am pressing seams open because that is what I do.  They are wonderfully flat and non-bulky.

Inspirational Siting

A new riff on Mollie's Spring Embroidery Hexies

I have been away but busy.  I continue to work on the spring hexie embroidery designs I downloaded for free from Wild Olive's wonderful, generous blog.

I made the flower rings as Mollie suggested but then I thought I would applique the flower rings on to a larger hexagon

I used the tried and true newspaper and made my own templates  for the hexagons.

Soon I had a dozen done...

So pretty.  I am not sure where this is going....stay tuned.

Inspirational Sighting

The roof shingles on the Stavekierke, in Rapid City, SD