Easter Egg Robin Free Cross Stitch Pattern

While digging around through my pattern files last week, looking for my Good Luck Robin design, I found this little Easter Egg Robin pattern.  I don't think I ever published it.  Well, now is a good time isn't it?

Right click on the image and save it to your computer.  I hope you enjoy stitching it!  It's perfect for a little door hanger or as the focal point on a Spring Crazy Quilt block!

Good Luck Robin Complimentary Cross Stitch Pattern

I received an email from a nice lady asking if my Good Luck Robin Cross Stitch pattern was available anywhere online.  It wasn't until now!

With St. Patricks Day coming up, I thought everyone might enjoy this pattern so I'm posting it here on my blog.  This is one of my free complimentary designs from 2007.  Enjoy!

Right click on the image and save it to your computer. 

Umbrella Wall Quilt Update

I'm making progress on my latest little wall quilt.  I started on this last week:

If you click on the photo to make it larger, you should be able to see the umbrella design.  I have all of the pink flowers stitched now, thanks to mom who had an extra skein of DMC variegated thread #48!  I thought I had another skein but I was wrong!  Oh well, wouldn't be the first time!!

In other news, I was sitting here this morning, answering my email, all comfy cozy in my nice computer chair when Lucy wanders into my room.  She kept staring at the chair, then she moved around looking at the other chair in here and then the basket that I keep in the corner for her (or the others) to lay in.  She then came back to me and kept looking at my chair.  I know what she wanted.

Needless to say, she's all happy, happy and comfy cozy now and my butt is parked on a hard kitchen chair!  I really want to be a cat in my next life and live with someone like me! 

Another Embroidered Wall Quilt

Not be icky or anything but Lucy is the cleanest cat I've ever met!  She cleans herself constantly so once a week, she leaves me a little gift.

If you have cats, then you know what it's like to be woken up at 3 am to the sound of a hairball making it's way to your freshly washed floors! 

Needless to say, I took care of the mess and then made coffee.  No point in wasting time so I started a project.

I've been planning on putting together another little wall quilt like the one I made for my pink room last week with the kitty on it.  I had another stamped embroidery piece in my stash and thought it would be perfect for my bedroom.  I think mom gave me this from her stash:

I'm sure you can't tell what the design is....it's an umbrella with flowers.  When I finish stitching it, I'll sew it together using my 1930's reproduction prints.

Anyway, back to Lucy, she's 17 1/2 now and doing great!  Her kidneys are functioning normally with the help of a special diet and special supplement.  Her thyroid is up a little bit but I just started her on a supplement for that and we're hoping the supplement does it's job.  I have to take her back to the clinic for another blood test in 2 months.

Kitty Wall Quilt

Last week, I mentioned that I was going to put together a little wall quilt for my Pink room.  I did that over the weekend and finished it up yesterday morning.

It started out with this, an unstitched, vintage stamped tablerunner that I found at a flea market awhile back:

It had some damage on one end but the other end was in good shape.  I stitched it last Fall, not really knowing what I wanted to do with it.  I finally decided to sew it into a little wall quilt.

I pulled out a few of my 1930's reproduction prints:

After adding a piece of lightweight fusible interfacing to the back of the stitched piece, I trimmed it.  Then I cut strips of the 30's prints in various widths and sewed them down to a foundation.  When I had that done, I cut the strips and sewed them on each side of the quilt.

Then I added 2 borders.  When the front of the quilt was done, I ironed a piece of fusible fleece to the back of the quilt knowing that I had no intention of hand or machine quilting it!

Before sewing the back on, I added a sleeve into the seam at the top, attached to the backing fabric so I could hang it.  I wanted to do it all on the machine rather than by hand.  Then I sewed the back to the quilt like a pillowcase, leaving an opening at the bottom for turning right side out.  I blind stitched the opening at the bottom closed and pressed the entire quilt.

Last, I made a few fabric yo-yo's to sew onto the corners of the stitched piece using some vintage buttons in the center of the yo-yo's.  They are sewn through to the back into smaller buttons.  The purpose of this was to hold the front of the quilt and the back of the quilt together.  Like I said, I didn't want to "quilt" it.

Here is the finished quilt:

And here it is displayed in my little pink room:

The quilt rod is up a little high.  I had one of my crazy quilts hanging in here but I got tired of looking at it.  It was larger than this so the rod for that one was at the right height.  I didn't want to move the rod and leave holes in my walls so I balanced this out by putting this pretty porcelain doll on the dresser.

On the other side of the dresser I have a vintage mirrored dresser tray with a small lamp.  The mirror reflects the light.  It's really pretty in person.

This quilt looks very "1930's"!  It looks a little babyish but I don't care, I like that look and the pretty pastel colors!