Teacup Bird Complete

Teacup Bird Complete
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

I finished this little birdie yesterday afternoon. I think I'll make it into a pillow using some of my reproduction 40's fabrics.

I'm taking today off from my charted design work and I'm going to run my sewing machine! Plan to make some more small 5 inch block crazy quilt doorknockers.

I have most of my "finishing" done. All I have left to do is the finishing on is my Shamrock quilt. I'm hoping to start on that tomorrow.

Dryer Sheet Pansies

Dryer Sheet Pansies
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

I completed these yesterday afternoon and I think they just look so cool! They're softer looking than what the scan shows. The scan makes them look a bit dark.

Anyway, I did some tatted rings for the centers, added a Czech glass bead in the center as well as the black lines and now they're ready to sew onto something. Will probably use one on a crazy quilt block and maybe make the others into doorknockers.

Update

Not much new to share today. Been working on the finishing of some projects. I really got behind on some things. I've also been working a little bit more on the dryer sheet pansies (I did 4 of them) and I'm still stitching on the little bird with the teacup. As soon as I have something complete, I'll share!

In the meantime, I've found a few more blogs that I just love and thought my readers too would like to check them out:

A Beautiful Craft

Primrose Designs

Norththreads

Dryer Sheet Pansy

Dryer Sheet Pansy
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

If you own Judith Montano's "Floral Stitches" book, you'll probably recognize this pansy pattern. Judith did hers out of velvet.

I wanted to do something cool with my painted dryer sheets so I used Heat & Bond and applied them to pastel solid colored cotton fabric. Once I had everything bonded together, I used some iron-on interfacing on the back of the pansies.

I drew up the leaves myself but they're not attached at this point.

I used 3 strands of DMC embroidery floss for the blanket stitching and I think I'm going to do some tatted rings for the centers with beads. Then I'll embroider the black lines in and some veins on the leaves.

Teacup Bird

Teacup Bird
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

I mentioned earlier this week, that I wanted to do some simple embroidery before starting on another crazy quilt block.

This little bird with a teacup is I believe, a Superior Transfer pattern. Can't remember for sure though as I traced it out awhile back. I'll make it into a pillow eventually.

I'm still working away at getting the finishing done on some projects. I got behind on alot of things and am now trying to catch up.

The Moonlit Peacock quilt is completely done now. I added my quilt label yesterday.

I'm off to try to finish up a few more projects.