A Few Vintage Hankies

Scott and I went to a little flea market (okay, it was a big flea market) on Sunday.  It felt good to just walk around and look at all the wonderful junk!  Sometimes, I wonder who buys certain things and sometimes I wish I had more money!

I was however honestly happy to find a few $1.00 vintage hankies:

These are pure, concentrated treasure to me!  Most of them still have the little label on them!  I'll be using these in future crazy quilt pieces.  That blue rose is screaming at me so that one will probably get used first!

I finished up a project that I stitched last week:

Yes, a little Cat Door Hanger.  I love this one.  The purple flowers on the top left are tatted flowers that I made with beaded leaves.  In the bottom right, you can see the blackwork fill-in that I'm experimenting with more and more.

Finally for today, my current project is this green purse block:

I'm ready to start adding the glitter (beads and sequins) to this piece!  Again, in the top left, you can see more of my blackwork fill-in.  I think I'll be making some more of those purple tatted flowers!

Some New Projects

I've been stitching, just not blogging much!  As Summer winds down, which it already is, I'll be online more often.  It's been a cool Summer here temp-wise so I spend a lot of time out on the deck, enjoying the birds and the breeze!

I finished this door hanger piece yesterday morning:

I'm planning on a sewing day either tomorrow or Wednesday so I'll get this sewn up and share another picture of it when it's done.

In the meantime, I pulled some lace and trim pieces for this block:

I think I'll take this out on the deck and start stitching on it.

In other news, as a reminder, the 2015 Crazy Quilt Calendar will be available on September 1st!  That's only a couple of weeks away!!!!

Finally, I will be getting back to working on my list of Crazy Quilt Resources.  If you have any links that you would like me to add to the list, please leave me a comment.

Crazy Quilt Clutch Purses

Whew!  I finally finished up my little Crazy Quilt Clutch Purses!  I don't know why these took me so long to do.  I usually breeze right through my projects. 

I vintage embroidered hankies on each one of these and hand crocheted the trim on the edge of the flap.  So which one is your favorite?  Mine is .......no, not the pink one.  It's the blue one.  I love that blue rose!

I also have another of Mom's Fall Door Hangers to share:

The soft shades of brown give this hanging heart a Thanksgiving feel!

I'm currently working on a custom piece for a friend.  I'll have photos of that soon.  After that, I have a green purse all pieced and ready to stitch on.  Lots of eye candy to watch for!

Cat Dolls

A while back, I talked about some little gifts that I made.  They were my little signature cat dolls.  All have arrived to their forever homes so I thought I'd share photos of them today:

In other news, I'm working on the flaps for some Crazy Quilt Clutch purses.  I'll have more photos of those soon!

Christmas Crazy Quilt Purse

I finally did the hand finishing on my Christmas Crazy Quilt Purse:

I used an antique lace collar on the bottom and then finished it off with hand crocheted trim using my fancy fun yarn.  The poinsettia is from a vintage hankie!  This is probably the only Christmas purse I'll do this year.

For now, I'm going to turn the computer off and get back to stitching on my clutch purses.