After watching The Aviator yesterday, a movie about the life of Howard Hughs and his role in bringing about commercial air travel, specifically the era of the 20's - late 40's, I decided today to watch Pearl Harbor again. I'm quite fond of that time frame as most of you know and I know many of you are too.
Maybe I chose to watch Pearl Harbor because my mom and I were talking about the 30's/40's era this morning. The quieter times and simpler lifestyles. The movie is still playing at the moment. I can hear it in here. This film reminds me that life was not always perfect in those days. The war years were a hard time for many.
I came in here to look up a website that I found several years back, hoping it was still on the web. It is so I'll post it here. I think you'll find interesting to read.
Ginger's Diary was written by a 17 year old girl living in Hawaii at Hickam Field at the time Pearl Harbor was bombed. I hope you find it as interesting to read and I did.
Cross Stitch Patterns inspired by nature, animals, holidays and scripture by Pamela Kellogg
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Update on Crazy Block For My Mom
I didn't spend alot of time on this project yesterday. I decided to watch The Aviator DVD which I bought ages ago but never got around to watching. Because of I've never seen that movie before, I didn't want to keep pausing it to get up for beads, threads and do-dads so I did some tatting and worked on this after the movie and during the Cubs game.
Anyway, I added some beads to the braid and the vintage lace, some ribbon roses to the vine along the black crushed velvet and little crocheted medallion to the center of the black patch. I have a plan for this so stay tuned!
Anyway, I added some beads to the braid and the vintage lace, some ribbon roses to the vine along the black crushed velvet and little crocheted medallion to the center of the black patch. I have a plan for this so stay tuned!
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
A New Additon To Our Vintage Style Towel Challenge
We have another towel to see today! This is Laren's towel from a vintage Vogart pattern. You may remember that I stitched this set myself earlier this Summer! Isn't it beautiful? Laren used a few different colors than I did. It's so interesting to see the same pattern worked by two different stitchers!
Laren is going to do the complete set so be sure to visit her Needle's Excellency Blog for updates. Laren has also acquired a few new vintage Vogart patterns if you're interested in seeing them.
Thank you Laren for joining in on the challenge and for allowing me to share your stitching with my readers. Your towel is beautiful!
Laren is going to do the complete set so be sure to visit her Needle's Excellency Blog for updates. Laren has also acquired a few new vintage Vogart patterns if you're interested in seeing them.
Thank you Laren for joining in on the challenge and for allowing me to share your stitching with my readers. Your towel is beautiful!
Crazy Quilt Block For My Mom
I did some more stitching on this block yesterday. I added the black trim with the red flowers to the bottom right corner and the added the blue braid over the edge of vintage lace. I sewed on a few ribbon flowers on the edge of the black fan stitches as well. Those little flowers are about a 2 - 3 inch piece of picot edged 1/4 in satin ribbon that I hand-dyed myself. They're simply gathered along the edge and then tied off. I had a feather stitch along the edge of the brocade patch at the top but I didn't like the way it looked so this morning, during Simply Quilts, I took it out. I'll have to figure something else out for that seam.
Monday, August 22, 2005
A New Crazy Quilt Block
Well, I was going to start on the Harvest Peacock next, but after sewing up several more blocks on Friday, I decided to do this one instead. This will be a Christmas gift for my mother. She doesn't know anything about weblogs so I think I'm safe in posting about this!
Anyway, here is the block before I started stitching on it:
And here is the block after 1 day of stitching. I worked on it most of yesterday afternoon and part way into the evening:
The large floral print is a brocade. Geez, I wish the lovely shine of this fabric would show up on the scanner! The light blue is a printed satin, the black is crushed velvet, the aqua is a poly of some type, the blue with the gold is a cotton with metallic on it and the other medium blue is a batik.
On some of my last blocks, I noticed that the needle was pulling my fancy fabrics, snagging them really. I always put a new needle in my machine everytime I sewed so I couldn't figure out what the problem was. My sewing machine is a Singer so I always bought Singer brand needles. Well, I was whining to my mom about this little problem so when she was up at JoAnn's, she bought me a pack of Schmetz needles to try. Wow! What a difference! No more snags! I was pleased to find them at WalMart for under $3.00 a pack! From now on, it's only Schmetz needles for my sewing machine!
Anyway, here is the block before I started stitching on it:
And here is the block after 1 day of stitching. I worked on it most of yesterday afternoon and part way into the evening:
The large floral print is a brocade. Geez, I wish the lovely shine of this fabric would show up on the scanner! The light blue is a printed satin, the black is crushed velvet, the aqua is a poly of some type, the blue with the gold is a cotton with metallic on it and the other medium blue is a batik.
On some of my last blocks, I noticed that the needle was pulling my fancy fabrics, snagging them really. I always put a new needle in my machine everytime I sewed so I couldn't figure out what the problem was. My sewing machine is a Singer so I always bought Singer brand needles. Well, I was whining to my mom about this little problem so when she was up at JoAnn's, she bought me a pack of Schmetz needles to try. Wow! What a difference! No more snags! I was pleased to find them at WalMart for under $3.00 a pack! From now on, it's only Schmetz needles for my sewing machine!
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