Lady With Roses Block Continued.....

I sat out on the front porch this morning for over 1/2 an hour with my camera. The hummingbirds are everywhere! I have 4 and 5 of them humming around all the time now. And one is a male! Which is very unusual this time of year. The males usually head back south by the beginning of July. I'm assuming that the one I have here is a baby from earlier this season.

Anyway, I took over a dozen photos of my tiny birdies and can you believe, not one of them came out! They were all fuzzy. And it wasn't that the hummingbirds are constantly in motion, it's the fact that I am just not a photographer! I really should break down and buy a tripod.

Well, no biggie! I'll sit out there again later today and try to get some more photos. I'd really love to get a good picture of the little male hummer. He's absolutely amazing!

Meanwhile, I started beading on my Lady With Roses block yesterday and this is what it looks like at the moment:



For now, I have a custom block kit to put together and I plan to put my Silhouette Lady purse together. I picked up some handles for it yesterday when I was in WalMart. I also would like to sew up a whole pile of Comfort Cat dolls so my sewing machine will be doing a marathon today!

Quick Update

Just a quick post for today everyone. This is just about ready for some embellishments:



I'll start on some beading later today.

Lady With Roses Update

Well, I didn't get a lot stitching in on this yesterday but I did cover a few seams:



I need to have this done by the end of September so I'll be stitching on it more later today.

Embroidered Pin Cushion Pattern

Another pattern from my collection of old magazine and newspaper designs. This one is called an "Embroidered Pin Cushion" pattern. It should measure 8 inches wide X 4 inches high. It's from a newspaper article dated 1914:



Click on the image to go to my Flickr site where you can download the large version.

There aren't any directions for putting it together. My suggestion would be to stitch the design, then sew a back to it and stuff it will poly fiber fill.

Loads To Share Today

I finished the stitching on the little Redwork Comfort Cat:



I have another one sewn up and ready to stitch on so when I get the stitching done on that, I'll sew them both up and mail them to Pat.

In the meantime, I was asked to work up a mini-quilt for one of the manufacturers that I work with:



I started stitching on it last night so this is what it looks like now:



I'll stitch on this some more later today.

I'd also like to share some gifts that I recently received. First was a lovely little package from Pat Winter:



If you remember my Silhouette Lady block, I had used some red foo-foo fabric on it. At the same time, Pat was working on a purse with the same fabric but in Autumn colors. We thought that was cool and the next thing I knew, I received a piece in the mail from Pat along with some other goodies.

Then yesterday, I received a package from Susan with some gorgeous threads in it:



Ooooh, these are yummy! I can't use them on my current block but the purple one might work nicely on my next Comfort Cat Doll!

Thank you so much ladies for thinking of me and sending me goodies to stitch with!