Stitchy Tuesday

At least once a week I would like to do a post about Embroidery, hand embroidery, to be more specific. I really enjoy making things this way. I normally do things on pillowcases and tea towels for my Etsy site B.S. Crafts or for friends. I don't normally hang on to a lot of the things that I embroider but I do have some that friends have made for me.
This week I would like to share a project that I've been working on for a while. Mostly because I was slacking so they took me a lot longer than they should have. But I did finish them this weekend and I will be going to the post office with them later today.
My brother got married on December 31, 2012. So aside from the "Presentation" that we gave them I thought it would be nice to give them something embroidered. Now if you know my brother communication isn't his strongest skill. So I didn't have a lot of information about the wedding. Then he asked me to do a speech with my sister *K*. (WE KILLED IT!). So I tried to get more information about the wedding and the only thing that he would tell me was that there was a website with the information and that the wedding colors were "Peacock!"
So here's what I came up with

The feather picture was my reference point and the next picture was me getting started while I was on the airplane flying home after the wedding. 

 Side by side, you can see that the feathers are colored a little bit differently. But I actually really like how the heart turned out. I wasn't sure when I first started. I also have to thank my sister *B* and my niece for helping pick out the colors.

 Finished, washed, ironed and waiting to be packed up and shipped away!

Close up of one of the pillowcases. I hope they're loved in their new home!

My Unfinished Workload...

My sister Mrs. Purple Quiltapotamus has challenged me to list all my unfinished work. So here goes nothing. She did it! She says "It does a crafting soul good to see what needs  to be done!!!"

This is a blanket my sister knitted based on our idea from "Once Upon A Time" and I hand embroidered the name and hand sewed the triangle name piece on. Our hopes are that we will have these up for custom order on our Etsy Page very soon. All I have to do for this one is take it to the post office and send it to my friend's baby in Calgary. That should be easy enough.

 These supplies are for two more of the same type of blanket. The pink ribbon needs to be sewn together because it wasn't long enough but its perfect for the little lady who is going to be getting a white blanket like the one above. I just have to make her name Triangle. Hopefully I'll get it done this weekend. I have a date with her mother next week. The blue ribbon goes with that cute name triangle which needs to be sewn on to a blanket. The knitting is done! My sister (B) is a beast when it comes time to knit or crochet! She whips things up like nobodies business.

This one is almost like the first one, except it needs a little bit of ribbon help. It needs nicer bows and some trimming. But then I can take this with me to work and give it to the babies mommy to take  home with her. I might just wait till the little blue ribbon blanket above is complete so I can give it to both people at the same time.

My baby gift that's not needed until January when we have the baby shower. Its coming along well. Mr. Eric Gagne is there to guard my pieces. I have a few more blocks to sew. They're in the plastic bags there. And then I get to put it all together. Although I think one of my middle blocks is way smaller than the others so I might have to redo that one. I'm waiting until they're all done to judge! I have a feeling this is gonna be one awesome gift. Now that my sewing machine is repaired I can easily get back to work on it.

This project I really need to get going on! These are squares from my nephew's baby shower. Everyone there wrote him a message and now I am hand embroidering their words on to pieces of fabric that his mom is going to quilt for him. If I don't get myself going its going to end up being his wedding gift! UGH! I was doing really well not that long ago. Then I put it in my sewing bag and got caught up with something else. I only have a few squares to go. Hopefully in the next couple weeks I can bang them out and get them in the mail!

This also makes me a bit sad. I started this skeleton couple a while ago and then I had a custom order so they lost their hoop. My friend from work drew them for me! (I LOVE HIS ART WORK) I should finish them and get them up on my Etsy site super soon.

My wild hexies! I'm actually kind of amazed at how many I have done! I know that its not that many considering how many I will need to make my quilt. But I'm still majorly excited about them! (This is what my sister meant when she said it was good for the crafting soul!) Now I just need to either get a bunch of these sewn together so I can take their templates back or get on making more templates! (Its just so much work!!) When I started this I jumped the gun a bit and didn't use a printed template so now I have to keep making templates that seem like they'll be right. And I have to make sure that they are right otherwise I end up with ones that are way way smaller like the grey one I recently blogged. But after seeing them all out I think I can finish this project. Maybe not by the time I'm 30 though...

These are coming along as well. These will be needle books soon enough! I can't wait! There is also one not shown in the picture because its a gift. Hopefully I'll be able to get a lot of work done this upcoming weekend. And I'll try to keep you all posted on my progress!

The only other major outstanding project is updating all the finished for sale items on to my etsy page. I did get four new things listed yesterday so hopefully this up coming week I can get more up there. Maybe I'll get a couple of these items off my list and ready to be listed!

Weekend Work

See Larry the P-I-N-K unicorn. He sits on my desk! And he was ABUSED this weekend. I need to get a new smaller embroidery hoop! It's tough to sew without one!

Happy News: My presser foot lever should be in on Thursday!!! Yay!!! Ill be able to sew again!!!

Second Post!

This is a work weekend for me. I will work 34 hours in the next three days. As stinky as that is it'll work in my favor. I work with super people and enjoy time with them. And this weekend I am gonna play Sports Select (is that what's its called?) for the first time. I'm just gonna guess and pick based on names and feelings. And I've also stacked my craft bag with some new projects I would like to get up on my etsy site in time for Christmas. I think they will be great stocking stuffers.
Teaser photo:

A Pretty Busy Weekend

Sorry I missed yesterday with working 12 hours and being way busier than a regular Sunday I got caught up and forgot to post. The good news is I did get one of the baby gifts completely finished and The little guy will be getting his new blankie tonight. I've added pictures and everyone at work loved it. In all honesty my sister did the knitting because she's awesome. I've got pictures! Hopefully I'll get pictures of the little guy with his blanket one day soon!

Finally Finishing Things

I may have previously mentioned that it was babypoloza around work lately. And I was making baby blankets for a few babies. So I'm finally getting to the last couple. I finished the stitching on one today and I'm trying to have the second one stitched as well. Then tonight hopefully me and the sewing machine can quickly zip around the edge and tomorrow I can quilt them onto their baby blankets. I may need a quick trip to the fabric store for some ribbon for an adorable bow but that's doable.

A Wasted Day

I had grand plans when my eyes first opened this morning! I was going to finish my rainbow pillowcase and do some work and then get more pieces cut for my quilt. I did finish my rainbow pillow case. I quit! I didn't like the red line which was all French knots and I'm not spending all day seam ripping and tweezing out knots! Instead I'll make a new one tomorrow. And the plans of today will become the goals of tomorrow. Today I read a book instead and spent a lot of time with my favorite spotted boy. I think we both needed it!

Date for One Flower Wednesday

Today I am sentenced to ice and rest because I can officially start running again tomorrow! Yay!!! My sister is away visiting our family and LB is at work. It's okay because Yoshi is filling in and he is going to keep me company while I sit on my couch and stitch. I have finished my one flower so far an now to basting and thinking about the new black I need to get.

One completed Pillow Case

FINISHED!! Take that Jake! I finally sat down and got back to work and finished the Jake and The Neverland Pirates pillow case! It turned out awesome!! My coworker loved it and threatened to keep it. I think daddy's little girl will win when she asks for it.
I've got the pictures of the characters I'll post now and then I'll post a pic of the whole thing later tonight.

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1 Finished Baby Blanket

So I put up some pictures the other day of a baby gift that me and my sister were working on. So It's finished and its been gifted and it was 100% loved. Both Daddy and Mommy loved it and hopefully little Ms. Teagan will like it when she's big enough to appreciate it. And it will be perfect in the winter time!

New Bed Plans

Yesterday we got fantastic news! We are getting a new bed!! What!! What!! A new bed!!! And it's gonna be a king sized bed which will perfectly fit my blanket plans!!!
And I finished the stitch work on my baby blanket gifts. Now tomorrow I will hopefully be attaching them to their knitted blankets. More pictures to follow!

Stitching Madness

Everyone I know seems to be having babies lately and I'm 100% excited for all of them! So I've been cracking the whip on my poor sister and has been making her knit baby blankets. And I believe that she has finished all of them now. Now it's my turn. I'm stitching little corner patches with names and a small design. I would like to get two maybe three done this week so I can get them to their rightful owners next week!
This one is for one of my oldest friends.

One of life's simple joys... Fabric

My spoils from yesterday. These will all be made into bunches for my quilt. I'm ubber excited for the blue fabric with the Elephants. That will make the bedding truly special for me and LB! I cannot wait to show him one of those flowers! I also bought a charcoal grey color just for the edge and the Spaces between my flowers that need to be filled in to complete the pattern I want! Very excited for this! I cannot wait to start putting pieces together!

I also picked up this fabric! I'm not 100% sure what I want to do with it but I love Winnie The Pooh and the whole gang! I love that he has his head stuck in the honey pot and that there are little bees buzzing around him. I'm extremely happy with this find! Thanks to my sister who pointed it out... or I think thats how it happened!

Mushroom flower Wednesday

Today was supposed to be a gardening day but the weather didn't hold up for that. I did get a lot done though. I cleaned up my house and went running and spent some time playing with my new camera lens in the garden. I took some fantastic photos of a fly and a bee. I also got this flower done. So all in all success! 

Soft Kitty

 I stitched this pillow case set a little while ago now. And today as I worked out adding things to my side bars I saw this guy on my Etsy Page and thought that I would share him with you and maybe my Instagram (which I just started today) sherry_bscrafts if you'd like to follow me.

Overwhelmed

(I'm sorry that I can't link the picture to its owner. But I do love it!)
Yesterday was new fabric day. It looks like I was in a green phase! I bought some other colors but I bought three different greens. The chatty lady who cut all my fabric was super nice and encouraging. So then I was thinking about how I actually wanted to lay my pattern out. And WHAM!!!! Overwhelmed in 2.2 seconds when I realized that I am going to be making 900!!!! flowers. 30 per row, 30 rows. OMG and that's just the front!
Kept sewing and got to thinking. 30 sounds like a doable number. Yes I could do thirty. Then I should be able to do 30 rows of 30. I'll just do it one row at a time. I can do this! If I can run a marathon I should be able to stitch a blanket. I'm getting faster when I do the stitching so by the time I'm 85 I'll have my nursing home blanket complete. Just kidding! I'm going to try to get it done within the next year or so. This month I turn 29 so I'll try to have it done by the time I'm 30 (or at least one side of it)

One Flower Wednesday

10 hours of work done! And one happy Wednesday flower completed and four more waiting to be stitched together! And one PVR getting emptier!

Rainy Flowers

Its been raining for the last few days, so I've been in the house. So far I've got about a billion hexagons cut out and ready to be basted. I have got about 30 basted and then I've got about 6 complete Hexie <flowers> bunches. :)
But yesterday I was out taking garden photos in the rain. I hope more flowers open up soon. And I hope that my poor hail beaten bleeding hearts come back.

Despite the weather we went for a 3 mile run tonight. It was super nice to be out moving after sitting at my work desk for 10 hours. The track was as thrilling as ever :) ! Hopefully we will stay on track so we can get super wicked personal best in California this year!

E.P.P Weekend one!

 I've gotten four flowers done, although from now on I will be referring to them as "bunches" because *LB* (Boyfriend) doesn't want to sleep under a flower bed.

 This will be one of the black pieces

 Another one of the black pieces. I love the music notes!

 Black piece. I realized I'll need a lot more black pieces than I will of the colored pieces But The black pieces will be fun with their colorful ways! :)

This is my first (and only) colored flower. I'm hoping to make it to the fabric store today to pick up some more fabric and get a bunch more cut out. I think I can do this project while I'm at work! I should be able to do at least a little on my lunch breaks!