I had to work today, so I didn't work on any sewing.  I decided to show you some things I've made in the past.  For some reason, I have a great love for pincushions.  And small, handmade animals.  Together they are even more wonderful.  Here are some pincushions I made with mice on them.

This one is probably my favorite.  Miss Mouse has a thimble hat and is holding three heart pins.  She is perched on a wool strawberry pincushion.  She is made from wool as well.  With the height  of the pincushion included, she stands about 6" tall.

This one is standing on a print fabric pincushion and she's holding a spool of thread.  She is made from wool and stands about 5" tall.

This mouse and is made from wool felt.  He is holding some pins.  The pincushion and strawberry are made from flannel.  He stands about 8" tall including the pincushion.

This one isn't a pincushion, it's a fall decoration.  The mouse is wool and he's holding a tin star with a button in the center.  The pumpkin was made from osnaburg fabric and I painted it.  The pumpkin stands on a wooden  candle holder that I painted black, then rolled in cinnamon.  You can't see it in this photo, but there are smudges of cinnamon on it and it smells yummy.  That's some dried moss on the pumpkin's head.  All together it stands about 12" tall.

This last mouse is made from wool and the pincushion from cotton print.  The mouse is holding a string of old mother-of-pearl buttons.  I glued the pincushion to the top of a large textile spool.  It stands about 15" tall.
These pincushions are based on a pattern from Country Stitches.  I just changed sizes and presentation a bit.  So that's my mouse pincushion collection.  I'll have to show you my other pincushion collections as we go on.

On a closing note, this is what the trees in my yard looked like this morning.  It was 2 degrees when I left for work.  BBBbbbbrrrrrrrrRRRR!!

Hope you have a great rest of the week.  Stay warm!

Cathy  :o)

Wow, I didn't know designing a blog was this hard!  I've spent most of the last couple of days trying to make this look the way I want.  I'm still not quite happy, but my brain is fried and I don't understand all the jargon, so I'm going to go with what you see for now.

I did finish the cross stitching on a project I'm making.  Talk about frying my brain, the fabric is 32 count and it's stitched over one thread, which means there are 32 stitches per inch.  That's really tiny stitches.  I had extra magnification and a clip-on light on my hoop so I could see to do the stitching.  The actual size is about 3" x 3".  Finally done!

Now I am going to use wool felt and make it into a pincushion.  This is a Country Stitches pattern.  I started it a couple of years ago, but never got the stitching done as it was so hard.

So now I'm looking for the next project to do.  I've pinned a thousand things (actually more than that!) from Pinterest, so I'll look through my boards and see what looks fun.  So many projects, so little time!

Hi and welcome to my blog!  I started this blog so I can keep a history of all the things I create.  I give away and sell so many things that over the course of time, I forget what I've made.  Recently I have finished several things.  Here are some photos of them....

This little guy is an owl that I made up as I needle felted.  As you can see, he's quite small, but I think he's very cute!

This was a pattern from Annie Downs (Hatched and Patched) that also has a sewing kit to go with it:

It actually took quite a while to complete as there are several parts to it.  It measures about 4" x 6" when folded up and buttoned.  The pig and monkey shown below are from a Cheswick Company pattern.  I like the pig the best.  They are made from wool felt, which I love to work with as it's easy to use and no fraying.

The next two photos are fall projects that I finished last week, too.  Obviously, not in time for fall or Halloween!

 

 

Actaully, I still need to quilt around the hexagons on the bottom item.  Hmmmm....hopefully I get that finished before next fall!  Well, I'm going to get back to work.  I just finished a Country Stitches cross stitch and I need to make it into a pincushion, so maybe I'll show you that next post!