~Prim Rabbit and Goodies From Quilt Shop Hop~

This week sure has gone by quickly…I’ve been busy working on orders and a birthday gift for my friend Linda. She loves bunnies, so of course I had to make her a prim rabbit.

 The pattern is called Fly-Away Hare”. I added my own touches with a machine embroidered applique star and a wood hang-tag that I stamped the words fly-away hare on to. I really like how it turned out and she loved it!!

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There sure hasn’t been any good finds at the GW in the last few weeks, but I wanted to show you these little miniature pieces of pottery that I found there. 

 I couldn’t past them up as they were only .29 cents each and they fit perfectly into this old wood tray that I have hanging on the wall.

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I did take some time off from working on orders this week to go to a quilt shop hop with Linda. We had a lot of fun and got lots of goodies!! Can a girl have too much fabric or too many patterns? LOL… 

 When I saw this fabric panel…I knew that I just had to get it and make a quilt wall-hanging. Not sure just yet on where I’m going to hang it, but I can’t wait to get started on it.

 Thought I would show you a close up of part of the fabric panel…

 It’s so wonderfully prim!!

 I also got these coordinating fabrics that went with the panel. Now all I need to figure out is how I want to make this quilt wall-hanging…which fabrics to use where. Hmmm…guess I’ll have to give this some thought.

 

 Just look at this book that I picked up…it is called “With these hands”. It’s such a great book…not only is there projects in the book for you to make, but they also show those projects in room settings…so it is like getting a primitive decorating book also!!

 Love this bird pattern!! I plan to made this as soon as I get my orders finished up this coming week. The bird is a fairly large…12″ tall x 10″ wide…and when I get him all done, he is going to sit on my tavern shelf with the living room.

I also got a pattern to make a fabric wallet and a couple of Fall/Halloween patterns, which I’ll share in a future post. It is getting to be that time of year where I have to start thinking about my fall show season that starts in a few months. So before you know it…I will be sharing a lot of Fall/Halloween stuff that I’ll be making to take to my shows.

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I also got some wonderful news that I want to share with all of you, but I’ve been told that I can’t share it until in July. Nope, not telling….My lips are sealed.  All I can say is that I can hardly wait….cause I’m about to burst with joy!!

   But I will say that Chloe and I hope you all have a great weekend.

Until next time…..          prim blessings, Cindy

~Sewing & Doing Some Tweaking In The Craft Room~

Hope everyone had a great weekend….I spent most of mine working on an order that I’m trying to get finished up, but I did take some time off  Sunday for a little while. Our youngest daughter works in a hair salon…and she cut her dad’s hair. While we were there…our oldest daughter & Josie came in and when DH was done with his special treatment…we all went to lunch together. (Josie’s daddy didn’t get to come because he’s a fireman and was on duty, but they treated him to lunch, ice cream and putt-putting on Saturday.) We had a fun time…but then it was back to the sewing/craft room for me.

 This is some of what I’ve been working on. They are pillows just waiting for me to stuff them. There is a sixth one, but I’m keeping it a sursprise for the customer that ordered these…it has her business name on it. She knows she is getting it, but I’m saving it for her to see when her order arrives to her.  She also got some stuffed sheep and framed samplers, which I’ll be sharing sometime this week.  I still need to do some of the detailed work on them. I have 2 more samplers to embroider out on the machine and then that is all done. I had 18 items to do in all and almost all of them had over 30,000 stitches in them…which means many hours of machine time.  I’m so looking forward to putting the finishes touches on each piece as that is the fun part….I just love seeing how each piece comes together at that point!! 

 

I decided to do a little tweaking in the room while the embroidery machine was running.

 I finally got my old Singer sewing machines up on the top of the cedar cupboard…and displayed more of my vintage spools of thread up there also. I just love how it turned out!!  This next grouping I’m not done tweaking yet, but I wanted to show you the large vintage button and wood safety pin that I purchased.

 The large button came from JoAnn Fabrics…it is part of their vintage sewing accent decor and the wood safety pin came from a local craft store. I’m thinking about painting the safety pin black or making it rusty as I use a lot of black and rusty safety pins on the items I make. Not sure it is even staying on the peg from this shelf…I still need to get the 5 ft. shelf with pegs painted and I might move it over to there. As big as the pin is…it might look better hanging from the larger shelf. I’ll have to keep you posted on that.

 

I’m going to leave you with a picture of what my helper was doing while I was hard at work…

  Nothing like a day in the life of a Yorkie!!

Until next time…..      prim blessings, Cindy