New and Old Our Father Prayer Quilt

After nearly finishing the Our Father Quilt from the  pattern by Elefantz.  I thought of how beautiful it is...

Better pictures coming....

I was inspired to make my own original embroidered Our Father Prayer,

I am so excited with how the first block went that I had to show it off before I got around to pressing.... I did wash it quickly, tho to confirm the my DMC 939 is in fact colour fast.  Small Yeah...

It is done in a mix of stem stitch, satin stitch, and back stitch, with either one or two threads.

More Plate Pockets

Carrying on, I made some more plate pockets, well actually some are for bowls but plate pockets sounds cuter...

And I tried them out with the dishes.  They worked great.  No more dusty dishes coming out of the shelves in the basement...  Yeah!

Another Hat for my Darling Daughter

It turns out that the cute hat (you can see it on my ravelry notebook) I made for my daughter in the fall found a new home with a friend of hers, so what was I to do but knit a new one.

 This one was quick and easy.  It is on the cover of the fall 2011 Knit Simple magazine.

The Lord's Prayer is pieced together

I finally finished the Lord's Prayer Quilt to the binding.  I felt I was quite inspired with my machine quilting and it went quickly.

This is just the beginning but I managed to take the quilted sandwich to my Mom's for a bit of a show and tell, as she is my guiding light and the one who started me down this quilting road.  Anyways, I also managed to leave it at her house and then I visited again and still forgot to get it into my truck.  So now it is a couple of provinces away from me and my sewing machine.  It will make it's way home I am sure and then I will add the binding and have another photo op.

Edwin's Pillow

I had a chat with my DD and she explained to me that her three year old would like a pillow and pillowcase combo like his big brother's.

We got out the new down pillow we had.  I don't remember the down being so....downy, but after much fluffy transferring....

and lots of vacuuming, I had a nicely stuffed little boy pillow.

Then the pillow case.  Just a few embroidery stitches...

And there you are....

I hope he likes the bug print.

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.