I guess I never thought about it but all those baseballs and softballs that go flying around the diamonds all over these great states are stitched by hand. We haven’t invented a machine yet that can do that task. Some brave ladies decided to take the “skin” off the baseball or softball and see if […]
August 2014 – Hand Stitching a Baseball or Softball Read More »
I had so much fun stitching out this scissor case on my embroidery machine. The digital download is free on the Bernina “projects” area of their website. This is a “crazy quilt” technique. If you have done that before you know that you start with a center piece of fabric that has 5 sides and
January – Making a Scissor Case, In The Hoop Read More »
This post was supposed to be made last month, but Thanksgiving came along and I never got finished. Hope everyone had a very nice Thanksgiving. Speaking of food…..did you know there is a jelly roll that you don’t eat? This is a fabric jelly roll made by Moda. This Moda jelly roll consists of 40
December – Jelly Roll Dress Read More »
Having only made boots for my larger Himstedt dolls, it was quite a challenge to scale my pattern down to fit an 18 inch doll. I first tried to simply shrink it down on a copier but the proportions weren’t right. I finally ended up doing it the way I originally made my Himstedt doll
March – American Girl sized boots Read More »
January-2013: Happy New Year everyone! My husband and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary on January 2nd. There are years for paper, wood, diamonds, etc. I had no idea what 35 was supposed to be but I decided I wanted to make my husband a “keepsake” type gift. He always writes me such beautiful letters