TAST 2 begins next week!!!

WHOO-HOOOO!!!

HOW EXCITING!!

Sharron Boggins, one of the world's best crazy quilters, is hosting Take A Stitch Tuesday #2. (Do I dare hope it's going to be an annual occurrance?) She began this wonderful exercise last year, and I joined, though I wasn't able to keep up. However, I did follow some of the stitchers as well as Sharron herself as she took a different stitch each week and pushed, pulled, and/or stretched it to do amazing things. This weekly, year-long exercise is truly an embroiderer's dream!

Bet you didn't know there were so many different stitches that you could use a different one every week for a year and then do it again with EVEN MORE stitches the next year!

I'll be posting my stitching here.

Want to sign up yourself? or just check it out? Here's Sharron's blog:

www.pintangle.com/journal2010/2/23/it-is-tuesday-so-i-am-introducing-the-tast-2-challengers.html

I couldn't copy the link (so I typed it, and am hoping I typed it correctly). If the link doesn't work, just go to www.pintangle.com. If you go there on a Tuesday, you'll find the current stitch.

BTW, Sharron's previous blog is here: www.inaminuteago.com and you will find the most gorgeous, amazing cq there. Warning: get comfortable before you visit, and plan to spend hours and hours; there's so much to see!!

Happy stitching!

New business!

I've got a deal with the neighborhood restaurant to make these pillows - a brainchild of one of the owners. My plan (Julie's idea) was to go there and stitch one day a week... have lunch, then SEW SOME SEEDS (for business) as well as some SEAMS! Well, the owner saw me stitching and asked if I could make pillows for her niece's three children, who call her "Auntie Pillows." While we talked, she thought about registering the name and selling them in the restaurant! So I'll be madly sewing pillows for a while! I'm very excited about this!

The center section is hand-embroidered, and I purposely chose a simple quilt block pattern for the outer portion to cut down the time it takes to complete each pillow since the embroidery takes so long. I'll be changing the design a little for the store owner's three pillows. She requested that I make each pillow with the kids' names on them so they say:

name
love,
Auntie Pillows

This particular pillow will be for display in the store, with a sign that says customers can order pillows in their own colors.

I'm hoping I can sell other items through her shop as well - pin cushions, small quilts, tea pot cozies and napkins, soap, greeting cards...