My Creation....

A warm welcome...

to my stitching buddies and good friends! I hope that this finds you all well and you are busy with needle, thread, linen and creative ideas.  I have been. Please let me introduce to you my latest finish:

Summer House Pincushion

Designed by: Blackbird Designs

Copyright 2010

Stitched on 30 ct. Weeks Dye Works Straw linen

Stitched with GAST: Mulberry 

Is it still on the hoop?!....

heaven's no, now let me introduce to you my new creation:

A Stitcher's Companion Embroidery Hoop Box

Designed and Created by: Me

I read a lot of "junk"....

well not "junk" actually, "junk blogs". You know the kind Shabby Chic, Vintage Style, Cottage, Primitive blogs. And on one of the blogs, this ingenious "thrifter" had found at a tag sale, a box of old, used embroidery hoops. Now this creative lady took the hoops and an old cookie tin, and had the hoops tightened on the tin and created a "vase" for a potted plant. Very cute! I saw that and for two weeks now I've been thinking. And thinking....and thinking some more. Last week, I couldn't think any more and put my thoughts into action at Hobby Lobby. I purchased some hoops and a wooden plaque, came home and went to work.

I got the basic...

design and structure figured out (thanks to some wood glue) and then got to stitching the perfect design. Today, hot off the q-snaps came the sweet Summer House Pincushion design (slightly modified to be monochromatic) and out came my drill, some hardware and a little finishing touch here and there and all that thinking and dreaming and figuring, panned out to better than I even originally envisioned!

 

Now...

I have a perfect "house" to put my pincushion when I'm done stitching for the evening so my kids won't push them down into the arm of the chair. My cats won't bat the cushion on the floor for me to step on in the dark of the morning. Owie...

But...

there was one more issue - my scissors. I don't own one of those flower frog deals, in fact although they are gorgeous, my house is a little more "primitive" in style and decor and a pretty flower frog doesn't fit in my primitive country home. But this idea does:

Embroidery Hoop Scissors Keepe

Created and Designed by: Me

Yep...
I went back to Hobby Lobby this weekend and with a little help from Mr. Pfeiffer (to clean up my shabbily drilled holes and make them bigger)....I made the Embroidery Hoop Scissors Keepe.

So...
here are my new creations with each other in my work room....a.k.a. my stitching laboratory.

Vonna's Stitcher's Companion Embroidery Hoop Box

and

Embroidery Hoop Scissors Keepe

created and designed by: Me

And...

here they are awaiting my next stitching session, in my stitching spot.

Beautifully...

perfect, don't you agree? I'm so tickled pink, I feel like a giggle and a wiggle, maybe two :)

Until next time...

I'll be keeping my fingers busy while my hands are at work and my heart is to God. Thank you so much for your visit and a special hug to all those that take the time to leave a comment or e-mail with me personally. Your efforts in leaving me a kind word or two bring much joy to my heart! Thank you!

Hugs and love,