Granny Stocking pattern - on sale!

Christmas is so close and we all have so much to do!
If you like making sewn gifts for your loved ones, I give you a helping hand:

During 19 - 23 December I will offer my Granny Stocking pattern at a reduced price. 

You can purchase it by going to my Etsy Shop.

As you may see, Granny Stocking has an original shape - inspired by Romanian traditional footwear.
It is a last-minute project, an ideal choice when your "to do list" is still long but the time is short.

For Granny Stocking you need only a few materials:
*Fabrics: 
-2 pieces of 11" x 15" for stocking body
-about 12" x 12" for cuff and shoe
*Tear-away stabilizer for cuff embroidery
*A piece of ribbon for the loop
*Coordinating threads  

You might also sew your stockings from modern fabrics to give a chic look, or using seasonal prints and no embroidery, or just a few assorted fabric scraps. Your imagination is the limit. Whatever your choice, one thing is sure: your stockings made using my Granny Stocking pattern will immediately distinguish, warming up the hearts to all who will receive them, no matter how small would be their content!

Have only beautiful sewing days, my dears!

Looking for ideas!

April is here and I think that a good way to begin a new spring month is working, of course.

Unfortunate I'm not so productive, I work to slow and I don't manage to have fluency. The cause is simple: I don't have a good organized space only for sewing, at home. As I don't like the disorder and dusted things I'm wasting my time to pack and unpack my fabrics, threads, ribbons......(they are in boxes!) every time I have a project to do.And I choose only those projects that don't take too much time to finish them, because I don't like the disorder that can't be avoided in such cases...

Besides, it is quite tiring: my computer and sewing machine are in a  room and my so-called cutting table is in another  room...Fortunately, the distance between them is short!

That's why it became necessary that in my very-soon home improvements (painting the walls, new furniture...) to include some new storage and work spaces, but without intruding the natural way of living in my home.

How could this happen?   

I need some ideas.

Please!.....

I would be extremely grateful if you would send to me some images  by email, or some links if you want to spare a wee bit of  time with a little comment :o)

I  must mention that my rooms are not so big, I live in an apartment, so ingenuity must be pushed to the maximum! 

Meanwhile, as my today post not to be boring, I show you some images of my two recent pillow cases, one decorating already  someone else's  couch.

First, I chose to try one block of the pattern Polka Dottie Posies from Quilter's World (April 2008), page 54.

I cut the bottom part of the original block (the flower pot) to better fit my square shaped cushion (50 cm).

 

I quilted it and I chose to embellish it with some ribbons and buttons.

Then, because I made some mistakes, I sewed another one.   

  With other colors.

 

This time my inspiration told me to do like this:

Mmmm, do you see? I exercised my quilting technique.I must tell you again that I am a very beginner in quilting and when I quilted what do you see in the above image I almost forgot to breathe....I have a simple Brother model of sewing machine and I don't like its quilting foot, because I don't have good visibility.

And as I am not a trained quilter, you realize how intense I concentrate myself to do aesthetic stitches...And because of this foot I still make a lot of mistakes....

But finally, my second cushion looked like this:

One last picture before living

And

Good bye!

My blue flower left alone...

Hmmm....Not quite! 

With another "sister". A crocheted one

Well, I think is enough for today.

Please, don't forget the help I'm asking you!

Looking forward  to receive beautiful great ideas for my improved work space,

I wish you as always

Have a beautiful day!

January things

I know, I was out quite a long time.
Actually I have been inn, but not in the little bloghouse, only in the little real-house.
And I worked.
Indeed!
Look what I have made:

I chosen some cherry fabrics

I made a few designs and calculations

 

I cut and stitched...
And look what it came out:

 

Then I looked carefully at it and it seemed to me to be a page of a coloring book...

Again I cut, I stitched.... But before putting together the front with the back side of the cushion, I colored a little, the front side. Just a little bit...

As colored pencils I took a few threads

 

 And I began to color. I mean embroider:

Here

and there

here

and there

and so on.......

At the end resulted a cute colored cushion:

And so, the both cushions are done!

 

I am continuing.....
I will be back soon (I hope) with news.

Till then,

Have a beautiful day!