'Crafting' Category
Super Mo: Embroidery Stash
Hello S4L friends, My mom has a group of stitching friends that she has lunch with once or twice a month. Well, a few of them have been cleaning out their stash and passing it on to me. I have received frames, a lot of fabric pieces (which will be great for bookmarks), patterns, etc. [...]
Crossing Over To The Dark Side …
I’m an embroidery designer. I have always been an embroiderer, and more recently a designer, and have always felt that I couldn’t possibly get involved in any other type of craft because I was so focused on fabric and thread. I used to call anything to do with scrapbooking ‘the dark side’ and sit and [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #23
I contemplated calling it good at 22 Creative Gift Ideas, but it’s just not in me to quit this close to the finish line. It doesn’t matter that it’s Christmas Eve and that I have no images to illustrate the last two ideas. I still have half-a-dozen possibilities on my list; surely I can just [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #20
eautiful! Susan’s done another stocking. The next Creative Gift idea–a two-parter that begins today and ends tomorrow–can actually go inside a stocking, making this a nice illustration for today’s post. Thanks, Susan! Heads up, friends–stitchers, readers, everyone–this is a creative gift idea you can really do this year, and I really, really, really hope you [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #13
De-stash. Wrap it up. Give it away. Really. Hey, what have you got in there? Can I see?” Okay, let’s be honest, many of us have mountains of stash. Some of it dates back to when we were just learning to stitch and didn’t know what we were buying. We’ve changed our minds about this [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #11
I wear a wool felt hat in winter. I wear a wide-brim straw hat while gardening. I wear a . . . different hat when hiking, canoeing, fishing, etc. Sun protection, heat retention, and fashion: hats do it all. Embroidered stitchbands and ribbons = hatband. Dress up and personalize a hat for a special gift.
Creative Gifts – Day #9
I’m a little behind in reading email. Here are some of the subject lines from unread messages in my Inbox: 9 Easy Kitchen Knits 53 Winter Wonderland Crafts 48 Mittens and Scarves 71 Festive Ornaments 28 Easy Beading Projects That’s just on page one. And I’m offering one idea a day for twenty-four days? What [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #8
Remember that ribbon we talked about a couple of days ago–the embroidered stitchband? Instead of wrapping it around a package, how about we wrap it around a head? We can stitch a shortish ribbon (about 18 inches–or you can always measure the head) and sew a few inches (about 3 inches) of elastic between the [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #7
Comments from Linda and Shelly reminded me of an idea I once offered in The Needlework Nutshell: Holiday Noodle Tags. They’re super-simple, quick, and can be made from tiny scraps. They can add color, interest, and a personal touch to a plain package. Wouldn’t these look great with some tiny spruce cuttings and cones? You [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #6
Speaking of stitch bands, I’m a fan of packages wrapped in plain brown paper (inside-out grocery bags), white butcher’s paper, or newspaper and then festively decorated with ribbons, origami, glitter, paper cutouts, wire doo-dads, whatever. I’ve never done it for real, but I’ve had it in my head to stitch some elaborate ribbons to use [...]
