You Could Win This!

 You Could Win This!

Suzy from here is having an awesome giveaway in connection with the "Where Bloggers Create" blog hop...go on over and check out her fabulously creative blog...if you want to be truly inspired then you need to go over and browse through her blog...you will come back again and again I promise...

Scrim....

A while ago I did a one to one swap with Lynn...we swapped a small scrim hanging...I am just so excited about what Lynn sent out to me...I had even commented on this piece without realizing that she was sending it out to me...thank you Lynn I love this piece and will treasure it...now to find the perfect spot to display this lovely gem...and here is the one I sent out to Lynn, which has arrived safely to its new home...be sure and go over to visit Lynn here, you will not be disappointed...lots of creativity going on over there...

 Keep those needles stitching....
Wendy

A Little EPP....

Not much going on here...I did get these finished this past week...have not had a lot of time to stitch...hope that will change this week...

I also started a scrappy stars epp project for when I go to dr. appts.

This is the pincushion that I won on Terry's blog giveaway...she sent along some threads a little magnet all wrapped up in the green fabric...

Keep those needles stitching,
Wendy

New Pin Cushion....

"Top Hat Pincushion"

Just wanted to pop in and show you my new pin cushion that Bliss made for me...she did an excellent job on this one...I need to show you the others she has made as well...soon I promise...this one is a top hat and I love it...she is so good at crocheting these little projects...thank you so much "B"...it has been raining for several days and this is the best pic I could get...the color is berry with a

turquoise flower...another great addition to my collection...

Wendy

LE Start...

"Love Entwined" by: Esther Aliu

 Fabric selection for "Love Entwined"

Edited on July 11, 2013: after much thought and study of the above photo after enlarging it...I have decided that my applique skills are not such that I will be able to follow along with this quilt at this time...however, I will be downloading the monthly blocks for this lovely quilt and put it on my bucket list of quilts to do...I am disappointed, but know this is the right action for me to take at this time...the time that would be needed to spend on this coverlet is more than I could put into it at this time...hopefully I can make this quilt at a later date and do it justice...
An update on mom is in the previous post at the bottom....:)
I have made a mock up of the "Love Entwined" compass that is the first part of the new bom that Esther is sharing with those of us who belong to her group....sign up is free if you want to be a part of this great bom...it will take from July 2013 until November 2014 to finish so this is a long term project....My plan is to use Kaffe fabrics with a black background...I hope to start the compass this weekend if I can squeeze in the time...Mock up for "Love Entwined"

Keep those needles stitching....

Prayers Needed...

Update on MOM!
First let me say thank you for all of you who have prayed or send emails asking about my mom....I really appreciate each and every one of you....your prayers, thoughts and emails about my mom have meant so much to me...she went into cardiac arrest on Sunday afternoon and had no heartbeat for four minutes...she was transported to the hospital and was in cicu1 for two days, then moved to a regular room...she is better and we have her at home and settled in her own room...many of you know that she has congestive heart failure and this is part of that disease....we are so thankful to God for giving her back to us for a while longer....each day is special and we have such thankful hearts that she is still with us...lots of changes for the future...


Those of you who have followed my blog for some time know that my sweet mom suffers from congestive heart failure....on last evening her heart stopped for about four minutes while I was with her in her home...she was transported to the hospital and is in cicu1 which is the cardiac intensive care unit....those who pray please keep her in your prayers please...her name is Marie and we would greatly appreciate all the prayers we can get for her...she is such a great mom and will be 79 yrs young next month....I will be absent from the blog for a while but will update if possible...jut too much trouble to take to the hospital....thank you for your prayers in advance....
Wendy

Hexi Flower...

Here is another hexi flower finished and one started for my scrappy hexagon quilt...no hurry on this one...I was able to do the one flower late one night while gone and start another one...now that I am home I hope to do more of these each week...if not that is ok too as this is a slow work in progress to use up some scraps...I will also be posting this on my other blog here, which is just for hexies...keep those needles stitching...
Wendy

Crocheted Blanket

Originally this was going to be a full size afghan for me...enter my sweet granddaughter Jazmine....monkey, my baby needs a blankie....ooooh that's pretty monkey (thats what she calls me):)...every single time she came to visit she would look in the basket and say this...what's a gran to do...make up four blocks into a dolls blankie of course...now Jazmine's baby is nice and toasty...I added two rows of double crochet after I joined the blocks...a smaller project than when I first started, but one that has given much happiness to the receiver of the blankie...grandchildren are such a blessing in ones life...Keep those needles stitching.
Wendy

I'm Back....

 I am back from my blog absence of nearly two weeks...nothing wrong, I just went out of town to speak at a conference in TX....no time for much stitching while away...although I did complete one hexi flower for the week I was gone and basted many of the bigger ones...before I left on the trip I made this lovely bit of scrim for a small wall hanging...a closeup...

 a closer look at the crocheted edging....

 A final look at the mini wall hanging...

I really love how this one turned out...it has lace bits and pieces sandwiched between two layers of scrim....this was so much fun to work on....keep those needles stitching!
Wendy

Trying To Decide...

I am trying to decide on which flower to use on this shabby chic heart pocket that I am making...I cannot seem to decide which one I want to use...what do you think....the top and bottom pic is large silk flowers and the middle roses are some I made using scrim...
Wendy

One Flower Wednesday...

This is the flower I made for this weeks "One Flower Wednesday"... in time there will be enough of these for a quilt made entirely from scraps..keep those needles busy!
Wendy

More Petals Stitched...

I have stitched more petals to paper in the last few days...the pile is growing...I will stitch all petals before I start putting the flowers together...I have also started a new blog just for the hexi projects that I will be making...you can go here to check it out...eventually all my posts about the hexi projects will only be posted on this blog...hope to see you there...
Wendy

Awesome Package....

Blogging friends are so awesome...over the years that I have had my blog I have met some wonderful people who love the same things I do...one such friend is Gina, who I met through a swap where we were partnered together...Gina and I both love peacocks, old linens and needlework...a few weeks ago Gina came into a large supply of linens and crocheted doilies...she shared them with some of her readers...I was one of the lucky bloggy friend who received some of them...they arrived here on yesterday...now to decide what these will become in the future...thank you so much Gina for your thoughtful gift of linens...I will treasure each and everyone of them and will use them in my creative process...
Wendy

FNWF Results....

This is what I worked on last night...added to my scrim of course.... I have added two more sections and started on the stitching...more time will be spent on this over the next few days...originally I was going to work on my hexi quilt, but this just grabbed me instead and once I started working on it I kept going....progress is good...:)
Wendy

Tonight is FNWF Sew In...

Tonight is the monthly Friday Night With Friends hosted by Cheryl...be sure to join in and then come back and post about what you worked on during the sew in...I have plenty to work on and plan to start fairly early this evening...You can go here to join in with the rest of us if you like...see there...
Wendy

WIP....One Flower Wednesday...

I have pulled out this wip to start on again...I am trying to decrease my wip basket and this one is the next one that needs finishing...these are big hexies so I hope it will come together quickly...I am linking up here and here...keep those needles busy...
Wendy

Scrim Play....

I have been playing with scrim again...I am really enjoying the process of making the plain scrim into a thing of beauty by adding stitch....all these french knots, buttonhole bar, bullions, mirrors, butterflies, buttonhole stitch, seed stitch....makes this cloth so pretty to just gaze at....I have two more sections ready to be added to my other pieces...I hope you don't tire of seeing the scrim on here as it will be an ongoing work in progress until the cloth tells me it is finished...then I will start another in a different color...sigh....so many ideas running through my mind about this scrim! 
Wendy

Mother's Day Mini

I was in a mini quilt swap hosted by Cheryl for a Mother's Day Mini...my swap partner was Carin and she lives in Sweden...she sent me the most lovely little mini ever...I also made a mini for her and she has finally received it...it took a bit longer to get to her than we anticipated...I tracked it to customs here and I guess it sat there for a while before moving on...now it is finally in its new home so I can now post about them...I absolutely love the one Carin made for me....so precious! Thank you Carin for such a lovely little quilt to add to my mini quilt wall...Below is the one I made for Carin...she emailed to say she loves it as well and is now hanging in her kitchen...I wish I had more of this fabric as I love how this one turned out...I used raw edge applique for all the little flowers and then quilted them down...

I have enough of the flowers to make a small mug rug with and will be doing so shortly...keep those needles flying...
Wendy

Remember This....

Little wall hanging I made for the stitch-along....well I kept looking at it and it just did nothing for me...I did not like it at all...way too plain for me...so it has been on my design wall since I made it while ideas were forming and being discarded in my mind....finally this is what I chose to do to liven it up a bit....now I can call this truly finished...I can't wait until I decorate for Christmas to hang this little beauty...oh so very happy with it now!

Wendy

On The Hook....and WOW a Day Early

As it is heating up here in the south I had to put aside my big afghan as I was way too hot when working on it...I will pick it up again in the fall when things cool down again...in the meantime I wanted a project that I could crochet, but not be overheated when working on it...I decided on the old standby of granny squares...with wonderfully bright colors no less...I have these three blocks finished and have nine more centers prepared to crochet...I can do one block at a time and not be waited down in this heat with the whole blanket...and they take very little time to complete.
Wendy

A Little Bit of Nature....

 This little peach tree is loaded with peaches...I can hardly wait to harvest these for peach cobbler and hopefully some jam as well..
Nothing crafty today as it is a holiday here in the states...so I decided on a nature post today...lovely roses and a loaded peach tree...enjoy...this rose bush is a wild rose and is running up several trees...I wish I had taken pics before all the storms last week...but there is still blooms up in the high branches of the trees...these trees are at least 20 to 30 feet high and the roses are all through the branches...smells heavenly as well...this is my moms and we really need to do some type of arbor for these roses...they are soft yellow blooms with pink interiors...

 the rose bush itself is so big in areas...we counted five trees wrapped up with this lovely rose bush...

 these are some of my Tyler TX roses that my sweet husband brought back for me on one of his trips back to TX...they are really doing well this year...again the winds and rain almost took all the petals away...these will bloom all summer though...and they smell lovely as well...

 big large petals...and on these they are doubled...first year that has ever happened with these...

Hope you are having a wonderful day, I know I am surrounded by these beautiful roses...

More Scrim Play

I am still playing with the scrim...I am still in love with this technique and am sure I will never tire of it...these are the newest pieces in the works...I am loving all those shiny bits of organza that is peeking through...

 closeup of the year this piece was made...I may do some wording on the next couple of pieces that I make so that I can incorporate them as well...

 Both pieces together before being damp stretched....

 so easy and quick...this took no time at all to make...now to embellish and titivate these two before joining them to my other pieces that are waiting patiently for me to add to them...sigh...I will never tire of looking at these or touching them...for all the stitching on them they are fragile and lovely...

 this is a long weekend for us as we are celebrating Memorial Day here in the US...on that note...

"Thank you to all those who have served our country in the military, including my beloved dad who served in the Navy...thank you for putting your lives on the line on a daily basis...I for one appreciate all that you sacrifice for our freedom...May you be blessed for all that you do for your country..."