Definition of a good mail day!

I had a lovely lovely mail day – the kind of mail day that makes me feel like it’s Christmas!! I received my goodies from Michele for winning a giveaway she was hosting last week. I also received “Embroidered in White” book from England!

Michele sent me a bar of homemade “chocolate” soap [...]

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Needlework: My “McMansions” Project – Part 9

Hello Everyone, I hope your day is going well for you.
I thought I would start out my post with a few awards from recent months. Thank you ladies, for the gracious awards:
Missy gave me:
(Missy is a talented photographer who is also a fellow dishaholic and heirloom seamstress)
I am passing on this award to [...]

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Temperature Gradient

While the outside is looking like this:

And then this:

It’s a bit challenging for me to get in gear for these:

The fabrics are from Wilmington Prints for a quilt appearing in “The Quilter” mid next-year. I think I am going to make me a cup of hot tea before I get started – that [...]

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Needlework: This shouldn’t take…

… seven years to complete, I hope! I am still catching up with my cleaning around the house. But I have also been having some cross-stitching fun. I am appointing Vicki as my accountability partner for my cross-stitch projects. She has been great in prodding me along in my [...]

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OFB Smocked Daygown Part 8: A bit of progress

I added the sleeves to my daygown. It was quite challenging for me to have to sew something as tiny as infant-sized sleeves. All I can say is, heirloom sewing is vastly different from quilting.

I am glad that the daygown is looking more like a daygown, and less like a… like [...]

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My vacuum “ate” my… , and other updates!

Would you ever have guessed….. the answer is “embroidery floss”! My vacuum ate my embroidery floss, causing a major delay in the progress of my French rouge cross-stitch. When that happened, I had a better understanding of the phrase “in the twinkling of an eye!”. I was running the vacuum around [...]

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Easy Apple Crisp

Much to my delight, my sister-in-law brought me some home grown apples over the weekend. Can you spot my “leaning” Tower of Apples?

I have been making rounds of Apple Crisp with the apples. The recipe is as follows:
5 cups sliced, peeled apples
2 tbs sugar
1/2 cup regular rolled oats
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup [...]

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Block Scraps and Award

I ended with a bunch of “block” scraps from the “Pieceful Garden” quilt:

I had invested time in constructing those blocks, and just didn’t feel right tossing them away! I was trying to come up with a bonus free pattern to offer with the “Pieceful Garden” kit, and thanks to my quilting mentor Barbara, [...]

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Easy Blueberry Pie

Hello Everyone, Happy Tuesday to you!
I have been making blueberry pies recently as if they are going out-of-style. Of course, it would make sense to serve a piece of blueberry pie on something blue:

Ingredients:
2 9-inch pie shells
3 1/2-4 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen
1/2 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar (I did half brown sugar, and half [...]

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Until…

… I have my own lively children, these Belleek “peasant children” of mine would do for now:

Well, they are really quite well-behaved. I have never heard them talk back to me. They seem perfectly content standing in the bookcase with nothing to do but just looking nice, without any complaints of summer boredom:

They [...]

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