Santa's Back from the Finisher!

Talk about knock out finishing! This takes the cake. You know I loved my Santa with Dots when I finished him.

Now he is back from the finisher and OMG is he just the coolest santa ever.



Don't you just love the bow and all the fabulous sequins. Kudos to a very talented finisher.

Mystery in a Corner part I

I'm trying to be better about posting more often and sending newsletters for the shop more often. We'll see how these plans go.

Today I finally finished part I of Gay Ann Rogers Mystery in a Corner. For those of you who don't know, Gay Ann periodically designs mystery projects. She sends out a list of thread types, you pick the colors and start stitching. You don't know where you are going or what you are doing until you get there. Just follow along and have a good time.

It's really a lot of fun. I have the best time playing with color. Give me a skein of overdyed thread and tell me to pull colors to go with it and I'm a happy camper. You can see my work in progress here along with the threads I used. Missy has done hers in shades of cocoa and browns. Neither one of our color combos are really all that shocking if you know us.

If you want to see more of Gay Ann Rogers designs go to www.GayAnnRogers.com Have fun. Happy 4th of July.

It's all about the roses

It's finished!!!! I just put the last rose on this canvas and had to share before sending it off to the finisher tomorrow. It truly is all about the roses. This is Shelly Tribbey canvas and it's really kind of simple.

I picked a few cool stitches and wonderful threads as a background to the silk ribbon roses that I knew I wanted to do. Trust me on this, they really are easy. They take longer than you would expect as you are going around and around and around some more, but they are super easy. Start with an eyelet, any ODD number of spokes will do. Come up toward the center of the eyelet and then weave around and around and around again, over and under each spoke of the eyelet. A rose begins to appear. How cool is that?

Two nights of ribbonwork and poof; she's a knockout. Ready for Breakfast at Tiffany's. I'm really pleased with her and can't wait to see what the finisher does. I'm sending wonderful trims so watch for an update in a couple of months.