Never Ending Sampler Panel 1 - Band 18

Today's band is a nice alphabet.  If anyone wants to personalize their samplers at any point, this is pretty alphabet to use.  And who knows, there might be a few verses down the road!! 

Here is the entire sampler so far:

And here is Band #18:

And here it is again with the Band #17 overlap:

I will have band 19 next week along with an undate on my husband and an update on my McHenry Quilt.  Have a nice weekend everyone!

Pink Stitching

It's no secret that pink is my favorite color!  And I work in pink quite a bit!  When I decided to make a few cellphone pouches, one of them had to be....yes, PINK!  LOL!!!  This one is all stitched and ready to sew up:

And here are closeup photos of the crazy quilt embroidery and embellishments:

This is one of my favorite borders to stitch.  The inspiration came from Brian Haggard.  I love the antique look of his crazy quilts!

This seam embroidery is worked with my Waste Canvas technique.  I love working with waste canvas!

Silk ribbon embroidery was a must for this block.

The little pink sequin flowers came from a tutorial that I found online years ago.  Next time I do them, I'll write up the instructions.

This little pink rosebud is a vintage brooch that I bought at a flea market earlier this Summer.

I'm working on a purple cellphone pouch now so I'll post photos of that next time.