Today's crazyquilt detail is an alphabet for personalizing your crazyquilt projects. The lower case letters are a cursive alphabet. The bottom row shows how the letters connect to each other.
Enjoy!
Cross Stitch Patterns inspired by nature, animals, holidays and scripture by Pamela Kellogg
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Friday, September 08, 2006
A Wee Bit O' Me Plunder!
As promised, I thought I'd share a few photos of the fun things I found in Galena. First are some beautiful yarns that I bought in the yarn shop. They had a whole basket full of these little 3 yard skeins for textile artists:
The beads came from a shop called, The Bead Bar. These black beads also came from The Bead Bar:
One of my prize finds was this highly sought after book by Carol Samples, The Treasury Of Crazy Quilt Stitches. I found this in a fabric store called Phat 1/4's :
And as you can see by this block which I started on last night, I'm already putting my new book to good use:
When I complete this project, I'll most likely finish it into a handbag for my Etsy Boutique.
I bought some other things too including a gorgeous beaded Victorian style handbag. I'll post a photo of that tomorrow.
The beads came from a shop called, The Bead Bar. These black beads also came from The Bead Bar:
One of my prize finds was this highly sought after book by Carol Samples, The Treasury Of Crazy Quilt Stitches. I found this in a fabric store called Phat 1/4's :
And as you can see by this block which I started on last night, I'm already putting my new book to good use:
When I complete this project, I'll most likely finish it into a handbag for my Etsy Boutique.
I bought some other things too including a gorgeous beaded Victorian style handbag. I'll post a photo of that tomorrow.
A Small Finish
I started this little project before we went to Galena and completed it yesterday afternoon:
The fabric is muslin which I hand-dyed myself. You may remember that this pattern is one of my 100 Details In 100 Days designs. I stitched it using a varigated thread and one strand of Kreinik Blending Filament. I then went a bit crazy with the beads!
If you would like to stitch this pattern, you can find it here on my Flickr site.
The fabric is muslin which I hand-dyed myself. You may remember that this pattern is one of my 100 Details In 100 Days designs. I stitched it using a varigated thread and one strand of Kreinik Blending Filament. I then went a bit crazy with the beads!
If you would like to stitch this pattern, you can find it here on my Flickr site.
100 Details In 100 Days - Day 80
Our leaves are starting to change. The warm days of Summer are giving way to Autumn's shorter days and cooler nights.
Today's crazyquilt detail is a harvest design. I would stitch this on fabric and then work it into the foundation.
Today's crazyquilt detail is a harvest design. I would stitch this on fabric and then work it into the foundation.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Our Trip To Galena, Illinois
We spent Labor Day weekend in the lovely historical town of Galena, Illinois. It's located in the Northwest corner of Illinois just east of the Mississippi river and only about 15 miles from Iowa.
Galena, Illinois was home to President U.S. Grant. His home still stands there today and is one of the attractions that we visited. Here's another rare photo of me, taken outside of Grants home:
And here's a photo of my husband Scott also taken in front of Grant's home:
And another of Scott taken on the grounds:
You can see the beautiful town of Galena to the left.
Grant's home is located just west of the beautiful hotel we stayed at, The Irish Cottage:
Here are several photos of Main Street. Every one of these beautiful old buildings is a gift or speciality shop:
In the next photo, if you look to the left behind the lamplight, you can see the sign for a wonderful needlework shop:
In this photo, if you look to the right you'll see the DeSoto Hotel where Abraham Lincoln had stayed once. He gave a speech from the balcony.
Also in Galena, there's a bead store, a yarn store and a fabric store. Those are only a few of the specialty shops! We probably walked Main Street about 50 times! It's just so beautiful!
Just to the East of Main Street runs the Galena River. The river has flooded downtown Galena many times over the years so at the entrance of Main Street are floodgates to hold the water back. I wish we had taken a photo of them. They were facinating.
This is another photo of me taken by the fountain in Grant's Park which is right on the Galena River:
And one of my husband:
Wish I had taken a photo of him without his sunglasses on. But they're prescription and he can't see a thing without them. He left is regular glasses in the car.
Anyway, it was a lovely trip and terribly difficult to leave. We'd still be walking up and down Main Street if we could!
Tomorrow, I'll share some photos of "a wee bit o' me plunder"!
Galena, Illinois was home to President U.S. Grant. His home still stands there today and is one of the attractions that we visited. Here's another rare photo of me, taken outside of Grants home:
And here's a photo of my husband Scott also taken in front of Grant's home:
And another of Scott taken on the grounds:
You can see the beautiful town of Galena to the left.
Grant's home is located just west of the beautiful hotel we stayed at, The Irish Cottage:
Here are several photos of Main Street. Every one of these beautiful old buildings is a gift or speciality shop:
In the next photo, if you look to the left behind the lamplight, you can see the sign for a wonderful needlework shop:
In this photo, if you look to the right you'll see the DeSoto Hotel where Abraham Lincoln had stayed once. He gave a speech from the balcony.
Also in Galena, there's a bead store, a yarn store and a fabric store. Those are only a few of the specialty shops! We probably walked Main Street about 50 times! It's just so beautiful!
Just to the East of Main Street runs the Galena River. The river has flooded downtown Galena many times over the years so at the entrance of Main Street are floodgates to hold the water back. I wish we had taken a photo of them. They were facinating.
This is another photo of me taken by the fountain in Grant's Park which is right on the Galena River:
And one of my husband:
Wish I had taken a photo of him without his sunglasses on. But they're prescription and he can't see a thing without them. He left is regular glasses in the car.
Anyway, it was a lovely trip and terribly difficult to leave. We'd still be walking up and down Main Street if we could!
Tomorrow, I'll share some photos of "a wee bit o' me plunder"!
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