Wow. I can not believe it's March already! Where did February go? Wasn't it just yesterday, that it was January? Here in northern Virginia, we've hardly had a winter at all. No snow to speak of...sigh. I love me some snow...bigger sigh. I still hope we get some before full on spring arrives. But this morning, I noticed some pink blossoms budding out on my plum tree out back...biggest sigh.
My dear husband made a little convertible sewing table for my Mother's old Singer 99. I've had my grandmother's treadle machine base for many years. When I got it, there was no top on it and it was a rusty mess. I took it all apart and cleaned it and repainted it and reassembled it and made a table top for it. It sat in my dining room in my previous home for about 15 years. Back then, husband made a greenhouse of old antique windows that sat on the treadle machine tabletop, and I kept plants in it.
When we moved to this house over three years ago, I sat the table in my morning room with one big plant on it. I wanted a place here on the first floor to set up a sewing machine sometimes, so my wonderful husband used the old table top already on the treadle base, and cut out part of it so my antique Singer 99 sewing machine would sit down into it.
Then he made another top that would sit over that base when my machine was not in it, and allow me to still use it as a piece of beautiful furniture for my big plant to sit upon! He did a wonderful job with the construction, and I stained and polyurethaned it. I am so happy with how it turned out!!
I had bee at my house on Valentine's Day, so I made my bee friends little lovebug pin cushions that I saw on Pinterest. I like how they turned out!
I saw this adorable Brooklyn Bag from Swoon Designs, at Oh Sew Persnickety, our wonderful local quilt shop, and just had to make it!
I love the cork fabric but it was the SLOTH fabric that sucked me in...
Making the purse was not hard, but sewing the thick cork fabric when it was doubled was tedious.
The purse directions were well written and the designer has a photo tutorial on her website, as well.
I had three quilt tops draped across The Queen Mother, aka my Handiquilter 16 Sit-Down Machine, since before Christmas. I'm happy to say, they are all quilted and bound and labeled!! I'll share them next time!!
Yogi is plodding along! He is almost completely deaf and has about 25% of his vision left. He sleeps allot and is on several medications. He'll be 16 in a month! He still looks like a puppy, though!! He just moves a bit slower!
So, what have you been sewing on lately?
I am a BAD blogger!! And I do apologize for being such a slug!! I simply cannot figure out where November and December went??
I know part of not blogging is that I only write my blog posts on my laptop...which I rarely ever even turn on anymore... I have a cool Zaggs keyboard attached to my iPad and pretty much only use that. I need to figure out how to post from an iPad. Anyone do this? Please give me tips and tricks and what app you use!
Well, lots to share! Since I last posted, I went on a four day quilt retreat with over forty guild members in the mountains of West Virginia. It was ever so fun and productive!! I completed a pumpkin quilt top (still not quilted yet), did some applique on my Cozy Christmas blocks and worked on our guild mystery quilt. None of which is completed yet, so no pix yet!
This year, I fell in love with trees in trucks for Christmas, so I made this little wall quilt for my sister for Christmas
and I made a larger one for me. It is all sandwiched and pinned and ready to quilt.
I've been wanting to find a china cabinet to fit a space in my morning room, but could not really find just what I was looking for. Then I found this cabinet at a consignment store for a really good price.
Solid oak, but the golden color was too light to go with the other furniture pieces in that room, so I darkened the stain and also painted the doors black.
I really LOVE how it turned out!! It matches the other pieces perfectly and also shows off my black and white dishes just spectacularly!! I am so happy with it!
I had been given this cool scarecrow pattern and embellishment kit years ago, and I finally got it made!! Yay!!
I always love the fall colors up against royal blue! Just really makes those golds and oranges and red really pop!!
And the last few weeks, I've been super busy making handmade bee gifts!!
For one bee group, I made seven quilt drafting notebooks with a ruler, mechanical pencil and colored pencils inside.
And for the other bee group, I made us all covers, mats with pockets, thread catcher and pin cushion, and an inside machine bed pad,
and tiny Dresden plate spool pin doilies
for our featherweight machines using a fat quarter bundle of 30's prints.
Of course, I have more adorable photos of our new grandson, Neal!!
He is now 11 weeks old! And soooo cute!
He smiles readily and is discovering his hands and what they can do!!
And he will be here tomorrow with his parents for Christmas!! We are soooo excited!!
I know when they get here, time will fly again, and I'll be too busy to post until after New Years! So I hope you and yours have a most wonderful Christmas and a very blessed New Year!
And Yogi and I will try to post more often in 2017!! Promise!!
