Beading On Sewing Machine Lady Purse

I spend a good few hours yesterday on this and started the beading:



I love how that butterfly came out! I really wanted it to look like a piece of vintage jewelry and I think I did it!

And here are pages 17 & 18 of my 1936 Herrschner's Catalog:





Be sure to click on the images to go to my Flickr site where you view the large versions.

I hope you're enjoying this catalog. I have a Bucilla catalog to post after this.

It's a bright sunny day here today. Feels good.

Back To Kitty & Me Designs

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allen K. Charlmers

Ladies, I hope you don't mind but I really didn't like my Illuminate page topper. I decided to just go back to my old one which looks and feels better to me. I didn't get the sizing right but maybe my friend Chris can help me out with that. I'll continue to post uplifting quotes every day and I'll chat a bit about how we create our own reality but this page topper just feels right and the other one didn't.

So, that's what I did. I'm going to change it back in my Etsy shop as well. In the meantime, here are pages 15 & 16 of my 1936 Herrschner's Catalog:





I didn't get to any stitching yesterday. Been feeling a bit under the weather but I did just pull some beads for my Sewing Machine Lady purse and I will head out now and stitch a bit on that and watch some QVC.

More Pages From 1936 Herrschner's Catalog

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus

I didn't get to doing any stitching yesterday but I thought you would like to see my Sewing Machine Lady Purse with the painted appliques:



I expect I'll start beading on this later today.

In the meantime, here are pages 13 & 14 of my 1936 Herrschner's Catalog:





Be sure to click on the images to go to my Flickr site where you can see the large versions.

In other news, I've received a lot of emails lately from my cross stitch readers telling me how sad they feel that I stopped designing cross stitch. That really breaks my heart. It's like I have this gift and now I'm not sharing it with others.

I decided to do just a few things to offer in my Etsy shop. I still prefer my main focus to be on crazy quilting and sewing but you may just see something in the way of cross stitch, now and then pop up in the shop. My old designs are retired though. I won't be re-listing them but if there is anything that anyone wants, just let me know. I always see to it that my readers have what they want.

Ok, I'm off to do a bit of tax time preparation. Enjoy the catalog everyone!

Sewing Machine Lady Purse Continued.....

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

I have the seams on this design covered now:



This scanned a little dark today. Maybe because the sun is out. No complaints on that one! And now that my monster maple tree is down, I have a lot more light in here and in my kitchen!

Anyway, I plan to paint those lace pieces today and start beading on this. Most of the seam treatments are my own charted borders for waste canvas. To learn more about my technique, click here. Working with waste canvas really is an amazing technique for producing perfectly sized and spaced stitches. And as you can see, all sorts of neat borders can be achieved that aren't possible with a freehand method.

I also wanted to share pages 11 & 12 of my 1936 Herrschners Catalog:





Be sure to click on the images to go to my Flickr site where you see the larger versions. It's fun to look at the prices of these items as they were in 1936!

Happy New Year!

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

I was finally able to go to JoAnn's Fabric Store yesterday! My husband had promised to take me for my birthday last week but it was snowing so we decided to save it for New Year's Eve. I needed purse handles to finish up some projects and of course, I couldn't resist picking up a few 1/4 yards of some pretty fabrics. I have a thing for Brocade!

Anyway, you'll be seeing them in upcoming projects I'm sure! In the meantime, my tree man just finished taking down my monster maple tree! Now it's all over my backyard. We decided to keep some of it for our Summer bonfires and share the rest with our neighbors who also enjoy bonfires and have fire places. I'm quite ready for them to come and get some. This was a huge tree! No maple seeds to clean up this Spring and no leaves to rake next Autumn!

I haven't stitched so I'll just share another 2 pages of my 1936 Herrschner's Catalog with you:





Finally for today, my theme for the month of January is "Happiness". I thought it would be a cheery subject to warm up the cold Winter days! I'll talk about it a bit more in upcoming posts.

For now, have a Happy New Year everyone!