A Special Needlekeep

 Happy New Year friends.  

It's nice to be back in blog land again.  My apologies for being absent these many months.  

I have finished many projects, and started a few, as well, and will try and be more vigilant in sharing these with you all.

First up is a precious Needlekeep I created from a gorgeous kit I purchased from Georganne Miller Anderson, who you can find at Damsels in Lace on FB.  She sources beautiful vintage European laces for her kits and custom creates for her clients a lovely selection of pieces to create from. 

This kit comes beautifully wrapped with complete easy to follow instructions on how to assemble.

Each package labelled for easy access.

Full of more than enough embellishments to create with.

And this gorgeous cabochon button, with the most delicate boutique of Forget-me-not Flowers.  The prettiest button I have ever seen.

Usually, Georganne gives her Needlekeep kits a name, but I have named my own.  Recently, on December 24, 2020, I became a grandmother for the first time.  A sweet little girl, who I hope will take up the needle some day.

So may I present,

"Aurora"

Some pretty scissors tied in there with silk ribbon.

A view of the front and back cover laid open.

I hope you enjoyed my post today.

  Be back soon with more completed projects.

Enjoy your day my friends.

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Leave a comment, I'd love to hear your feedback, xo

My Tattered Lace / Postcard Journal

Finally, today is the day I'm going to show case my tattered textile journal.  This journey started a couple of years ago when I became interested in and making textile postcards.  I had a group of postcards that I wanted to show case in a fabric journal.  I came across a wonderful textile artist, Suzy Quaife from Australia, who offered an online course showing how to create a journal using fabrics and lace.   I knew right away this was the direction I wanted to go with this.  I hope you enjoy viewing what I really enjoyed creating.

My most favorite postcard made the cover.  Bits of lace, buttons, beads and a vintage quill  tip found in a bottle of buttons at the thrift store.  Many of the fabrics and doilies I purchased from the thrift store, too.

This beautiful card was a gift from a very creative lady, also from Australia.  Lorraine Williams was happy to oblige me with a card exchange when I approached her on FB after spying some of her beautiful cards.  She creates the most beautiful pieces of work up cycling discarded vintage linens and doilies.

                                                              

A postcard made with dried wheat growing wild along my daughters lane.

And a pocket made from an embroidered line napkin, filled with tags. 

Sorry about the image of this postcard, it has a very fluffy feather stitched to it with a brass fairy charm at the base.  All stitched on a pretty batik fabric.

Opposite is a lovely stamped card which I layered with some silk.  The two stamped cards were made by Suzy Quaife.

Here amazing work can be found on her blog:

https://suziqusthreadworks.blogspot.com/

 

Well, blogger's new format is giving me grief so I gave up commenting with each image.  I mostly wanted to acknowledge the added pieces from Suzy Quaife and Lorraine Williams.  Their art inspired me to create this keepsake journal.  

Thank you ladies.

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Thank you friends for stopping by and having a look at my Tattered Lace/Postcard Journal.

Have a lovely day,

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Welcome Spring

Good morning friends near and far.  At last it is starting to feel like spring....and so welcome this year with all that is going on in the world.  I feel thankful that I have my art to keep myself somewhat sane.  I do hope you all are keeping well and safe .... and sane ;)

I had a request from a co-worker, for a decorative hand made guest book.  Sadly, his wife had passed away in January and he was planning a memorial service to be held in May, and wanted something nice for the guests to sign or comment in.

I set about picking some fabrics and embellishments to create the outside cover.  I chose a crazy quilt patch to stitch and embellish as I really do love crazy quilting ... my favorite go to project.

And voila ... the front cover 

and the back

The inside has a lace pocket and some simple linen paper attached 

by a length of silk ribbon

This stitched up quite quickly and was assembled in less than a day, which kept me occupied on Good Friday.

I hope you have enjoyed my blog today.

  

Coming up next,

A Crazy Quilted Journal 

stuffed full of gorgeous papers, tags and tucks.

I'm Back ... I know it's been awhile.

Sorry for my absence here...eek it was October 17 since my last post.

I have been spending a lot of my time since last fall finishing up some projects in my sewing room.  I finished the tops on 3 quilts and have sent them over to my sister's in Prince George for top quilting.  You can find her on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/LBQuiltExpressions/reviews/

Barb and Les do an amazing job!

I will post pics when I have the binding on and they are completely finished .

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I also have been working on a couple of projects for a crazy quilt magazine which are (top secret), lol, for the time being.  With any luck they will be in the summer issue of Crazy Quilt Quarterly Magazine.  After the magazine is published I will also post some pics here.

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In the mean time I have some pics of a cute little Junk Journal project I have been working on.  I will be doing a few more of these cute little journals...in fact I have another one in the works already and several ideas swirling around in my head.  I really need to jot down these ideas somewhere ... hmm!! Oh well...I hope you enjoy the flip through "A Walk in the Woods"

This journal topper was created with corrugated cardboard, acrylic paint, stamps, fabric, yarn, buttons, paper, metal and little glass ladybug bead.  And wrapped in a chiffon ribbon.

With lots of pages for journaling,

and tucks and tags,

and envelopes for squirreling away secrets

And a mini journal tucked in the back cover,

made from a book of poems

filled with stamped papers

and a sweet poem.

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Thank you friends from near and far, for stopping by and having a look.  

Be back soon, Hugs

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