I've been busy over here making lots of felty things!
I made myself a special little treat (pincushion)! Doesn't this look good and scrumptious? A White Chocolate Orange Truffle Latte, with a rolled Pirouline cookie and a sweet piece of hand-stitched chocolate.
Yummy!
I also had a chance to make a little extra Christmas money, and gladly took the offer...3 custom felt stockings! A lot of handwork and beading went into these.
A Paris Street Market is over for the season! It is always such a treat to go once a month kid-free and browse all the great stalls, filled to the brim with treasures. I think this was my most successful trip of the season. Look at my new Little Green Suitcase I scored for $3. I had to ask twice because I wasn't sure I heard right. But the best part...the inside!
As I opened it, I gasped with delight! Pretty paper, lovely mirror, clean and in perfect condition! I carried this through-out the day adding all my wonderful finds. Do you want to see?
Look how sweet these ric-rac flowers are on this flour sack dishtowel. Something I am going to have to try myself.
A practically new child's flower press. I can't wait to take this out and try it, and it's so much lighter than a phone book! My sister made me a flower press years ago for my birthday and I used it quite a bit. I really should dig it out of storage and see what I pressed!
This quilted bird ornament smells so sweet and yummy, and makes me hungry every time I pass by it! It is dipped in a cinnamon scented beeswax.
I can never pass up trims and ribbons, and these unopened packs of vintage bias tape were only .25 cents.
See, everything fits snug as a bug in my pretty Little Green Suitcase!
Another 50 States block finished up!
My favorite part...the Wild Horses! I tried to give the manes and tails some dimension by using two different colors of browns and grays. I think it turned out okay, but maybe next time I will use a variegated thread or, I could just keep just practicing. But for now I am satisfied!
This weekend while I was at the Quilt-A-Fair I came upon another great idea turned into a book: Get Your Stitch on Route 66: Quilts From the Mother Road. If state postcards/stamps aren't quirky enough for you check out these patterns of icons on this famous highway. They had two different quilts made up, one embroidered in black and the other embroidered with color, and both of the quilts and fabrics were fantastic. Alexander Henry has an awesome Route 66 fabric that is perfect for these types of quilts!
Look how cute this Halloween fabric is! I am so excited about it, that I could just....SCREAM! I spent this weekend with "The Girls" in my family, and went to a Quilt-A-Fair.
Two booths in I found this great Halloween fabric panel from Sherri Berry Designs. I fell in love with the colors in the fabric because they are slightly different than your normal Halloween colors, although my photos aren't showing them too well here...sorry for that!
The great thing about this panel is that it is a pretty good size, which means you have a ton of possibilities of things you can do with it. You can leave it as is, or cut it up on the dotted lines and make your own creations!
I figured as I wound my way through all the booths that I would come upon some greats Halloween fabrics to incorporate into my panel...and I did...THIS WHOLE CUSTOM QUILT KIT!
Aren't these just the most delicious fabric combinations ever? They had this quilt made up and on display as a wall hanging and a table runner. I went crazy-nuts over it and ran pushing and screaming (okay not really, but in my head I did) to get my hands on the kit!
Not only does it have a decent amount of fabric, but it has another panel and other ideas included! So now I have...count em' TWO panels to play with. Some of the ideas in the kit are a garland out of the individual 'Trick Or Treat' letters, and making Treat Bags with the corner squares...too cute! Now I can make the whole SHA-BANG!
I have never really been one to decorate for Halloween, but this year I am a lunatic about it! I found these beautiful crows (a secret love of mine, Halloween or no Halloween) at the craft store and thought they would look wonderful on my bookcase. I also have plans to make this Witch's Hat and this Patchwork Pumpkin. This Hocuspocusville quilt will have to wait until next year unfortunately! They had all of these projects wonderfully displayed at Maggie Mae's booth. She could see that I was drooling over them and told me that a group of ladies bought the Witch's Hat pattern and made them all up and now they get together often to have a Witch's Tea Party....doesn't that sound like a Cackling Good Time?
I'm off to cutting and stitching, while I still have a little time before the kids get home from school!
