Sophie’s quilt
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in crafts, general crafts, general home, sewing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Lately "minky fabric" has been all the rage for making baby blankets. I had seen it described as extremely soft; so I was very curious to feel this fabric. I found out just how soft when i went into a ...
Butterflies in my bread!
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, general home, sewing | No Comments »Remember how I embroidered a Monarch butterfly for the Eternal Spring table runner? That I was tempted to make another one in the same table runner? Well, I liked it so much I had to make yet another one...this time the butterfly ...
Fastest baby booties ever!
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in general crafts, knitting | No Comments »... After having been left with so much yarn from Pound of Love, I decided to continue the baby-gift-making-fest. Jeannette, one of the wonderful knitting ladies in my Stitch & Bitch, was making a lot of these cute booties around the ...
Alex’s blanket
Sunday, August 16th, 2009 Posted in crafts, general crafts, knitting | 12 Comments »Having finally finished the DNA scarf, I didn't now what project to start next (I've found that since I joined the knitting group, I am more encouraged to finish projects!). I wasn't interested in knitting another scarf. Luckily for me, ...
Spring cleaning and crafting
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Posted in crafts, general crafts, general home, knitting, sewing | No Comments »While I've been quiet around here, it hasn't been the case around my sewing machine and crafts. I've been working on a few projects that I couldn't upload right away; also known as baby shower gifts. There were also projects that ...
Eternal Spring: The Monarchs
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, sewing | 3 Comments »I love Flickr, I get a lot of ideas by looking at pictures....but it can be dangerous for me to visit it while working on a project. As I mentioned, after seeing this picture, i just had to add a ...
Eternal Spring – the sweet smell of vainilla*!
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in architecture, crafts, embroidery, Flowers, general crafts, general home, sewing, The Internet and The Web | 3 Comments »I bet everyone thought this had become a photography blog huh? Wrong! I've just been lazy (well, lazy to blog; trust me, I've been quite a busy bee!). Not much progress has been made on the runner as I keep on ...
Eternal spring 2
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, general home, sewing | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_266" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="First Dahlia finished"][/caption] So the first bunch of bougainvilleas was finished...i moved onto the dahlias. First Dahlia was done with satin stitch only. As you can see, the edges were done in a darker pink than the middle...at ...
Scrappy pincushion
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in embroidery, general crafts, sewing | No Comments »What does a craftster do when she's bored or stressed? She grabs fabric scraps and makes craftsy things with them! Check it out: The yellowish fabric scraps are from a Purl Soho order placed a few months back. It is ...
Learning simplicity
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in embroidery, general crafts, sewing, Wedding | No Comments »Remember the photo album I made for Windi? Well, my aunt's birthday was coming up and I was about to send her copies of our wedding pictures when I though, why not make something special? maybe something like the album that ...