No More Stepping on Needles in the Middle of the Night...

So, I have a problem of dropping needles around my sewing area while I'm sewing.. and I forget I dropped them or just never even realized it. I keep pincushionis by the sewing machine, but it still happens. And of course, where there's a needle on the floor.. your bare foot will always find it. There's just no helping it.. unless....
You make a pincushion that's attached to your sewing machine so that every single need that's on that piece of fabric you're sewing you can automatically stick it there.. without even thinking about it. So, I whipped up this little flower. Let me tell you.. it comes in handy so much! I have noticed a huge drop in the amount of needles I find on my floor in the craft area and not to mention it's realllllllly cute, isn't it?!




Now.. what to do about needles near my couch.. where I always embroider.. hmmmm....

The Cutest Pink Poodle Pincushion EVER!

Sewsew_a_gogo crafted this pink poodle pincushion for me during the Needlework swap on Craftster. This girl knows me so well! Although, when I received a huge box full of goodies.. I stopped all of my rummaging and shrieked out loud the moment I got my hands on this adorable little guy. I mean.. come on! Is he not the cutest thing?!

I'm so impressed by him I just had to show off every angle lol.. and also notice in one pic the matching needlebook in the shape of a poodle head.... Adorable!







Did you check out the detail on him? Amazing, right? I don't know how she managed to find the patience to make him. I know I couldn't do it. I would have thrown him across the room about five minutes in lol

So Yummy even the pots are sweating!

Yeah.. corny title.. I know. lol
In the recent needlework swap on Craftster I made this set for my partner. The tea towel has four different pots embroidered on it.. and of course some fabulous pink rickrack.. nothing's complete without rickrack!
The apron I just freehanded.. no pattern. On it I embroidered a cute little sugar and creamer set which matches the embroidery on the tea towel.
I just can't get enough of the cute little retro animated inanimate objects. You know you love them, too! How can you not?!

I Heart Sunny Buick

So, I embroidered this for Kittykill during the Tea Towel Tour swap on Craftster. Sunny Buick dreamed up and created this gorgeous image. I knew it was right up Kittykill's ally.. especially since it was in her Wists. So, I set out to embroider her.. and let me tell you.. it was a job! But I think the end result was well worth the effort.

Born To Stitch

Everytime I type that phrase I get the song "Born to be Wild" stuck in my head.. I can't help it lol
Recently I was involved in the tattoo swap on Craftster and I was blessed with getting the hippest of all chicks.. Kittykill.. as my swap partner. She truly spoiled me people.. truly. But I tried my best to spoil her, too. My favorite thing I made for her is this sampler... which I actually copied from one that Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching made. It's made using all Sublime Stitching patterns from the new Tattoo Letters set.. I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope ya'll enjoy!







And of course I have to show ya'll what else I made Kittykill.
Truly, this next piece is one of my favorite things I have ever made. It turned out so cute!
It's a framed embroidery.. I painted the frame.. of a pimped out little bluebird created by the one and the only Mitch O'Connell! Thank you Mr. O'Connell for being so brilliant that you would think to pimp out a sweet little bluebird.





And then lastly I threw in another little Dreamcatcher.. just for fun. This one's more my taste than the first one I made. I really wanted to keep it myself. In fact, every single thing I made for Kittykill during this swap I wanted to keep for myself!



I hope you liked it all Kittykill!

Sweet Aprony Goodness!

So, I got my completed apron back from the Tea Towel Tour on Craftster several weeks ago now, but I'm just now getting around to posting pics on my blog. Unfortunately, my work now blocks all blogs.. and I don't have internet at home right now. So, it's rare for me to get a chance to get on here and update. Anyhow, my apron turned out sooo beautifully. The ruffle all along the bottom was just that.. a ruffle. I didn't intend for everybody to stitch on it.. but the amazingly creative Iamsusie stitched on my apron first and got the incredible idea of stitching on that ruffle. Well, luckily for me everyone followed suit. I couldn't have asked for it to turn out any better than it did. Everyone stitched adorable things on it. I gotta say, though, that I think the little pink deer is my favorite. I love my apron so much there's no way I'm ever going to use.. I don't want to risk messing it up! So, I hung it up on my wall for everyone to see. I love looking at it everyday. It matches my kitchen perfectly!
Enough blabbing.. here's a pic of it up on the wall.

They've flown the coop!

So, here is another goody that I made for the bird swap. They've all flown the coop and are now at their new home with ollieorange on Craftster!
This piece of wall art is just a canvas covered in this gorgeous fabric that I got from SewMamaSew and then I appliqued some adorable little songbirds along with some embroidery of the sweet music they are making!
I also made a pillow that matches but I failed to take pics of it on my camera.. just my camera phone.. and believe me, those pics are not blogworthy!