December 24th, 2009

Happy holidays, everyone! I love the holiday season and I particularly love to use gingerbread people and houses in my holiday decorations. I cross-stitched this little gingerbread man from a kit several years ago. I backed the finished project with a piece of green felt and used the half-stitch in red, green and white to [...]

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December 17th, 2009

I’ve introduced a new embroidery pattern in my etsy store: “Bear in My Stocking”. It features my animal friend, Bailey, the Brown Bear, hanging out with a candy cane in a Christmas stocking. The photo shows an ornament I am making. I stitched this cute design in red, green, brown, and white using raised satin [...]

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December 10th, 2009

This fantastic candy portrait of Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog appeared on the side of a gingerbread masterpiece at the 2009 Gingerbread Village–held every year at the Seattle Sheraton in downtown Seattle. Created from an assortment of jelly beans, this piece of art is a very tasty interpretation of two of my favorite Muppet [...]

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December 8th, 2009

I’ve been doing a lot of embroidery projects lately and here’s another new one. This is a “shades of pink” embroidered eye I stitched from a pattern my niece designed for our etsy store (Eye #3 by Allyson Mitchell of Pink Tea Design). The fabric is a cotton kitchen towel and I used the following [...]

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December 2nd, 2009

In honor of my mom’s birthday today, I’m including a few of her craft projects. Mom was an amazingly versatile crafter and taught me so much. This small blue and white baby hat is crocheted with extra soft terrycloth yarn and features a fold-up brim. The little butterfly accent is crocheted with #10 thread. Very [...]

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