Archive for January, 2009

• Workbasket Embroidery Transfers – Toy Animals

  This is one of the small Workbasket transfer sheets that came stapled into the magazine — it’s 8″ x 17″, red ink on craft paper.  I love the animal toys, especially the way their little parts are sewn together.  I think I’m going to try an embroidered doll quilt since there are only 5 patterns [...]

  January 31st, 2009

• Jennifer’s Tile Tray and Hanging Rack

  In my last post I included a photo of a tile rack made by my niece, Jennifer Krohn. Today I want to show you  the beautiful tile tray she made for me.  Jennifer has worked as an industrial designer, but right now she is staying home with her three little children, Max, Oliver [...]

  January 30th, 2009

• Vintage Tablecloth Grocery Bags

  I made 66 of these reusable grocery bags which I gave as Christmas presents in 2007. The heavier fabric of an old tablecloth is perfect for these bags. If it has a small hole, you can cut around it, patch it, or just ignore it — it won’t matter. The pattern is [...]

  January 28th, 2009

• Vintage Table Topper

  First of all, I want to thank everyone who made such nice comments about Marjorie’s Quilt and the Anniversary Sampler. It makes me very happy when other quilters and crafters like my work.
  In 2007 I purchased a lot of 50 cutter tablecloths for $50. A few of them were practically minty and I [...]

  January 26th, 2009

• Marjorie’s Rhyme Land Quilt

  I finally finished the quilt for Marjorie Claire, daughter of my niece, Jennifer, and her husband, Cyrus. I think Marjorie was about 10 days old in the photo below, taken in December. We are all excited to have a sweet baby girl in our family, and I am pleased that she has my mother’s [...]

  January 24th, 2009

• 40th Anniversary Sampler

  This little sampler was a gift to my parents, Marjorie Louise Dellasega and Lawrence Anthony Dellasega, in honor of their 40th wedding anniversary. I’m so glad I made it, because daddy died just a few years later. The sampler was done on 22-count Hardanger fabric using one strand of floss. My mother [...]

  January 22nd, 2009

• Grandmother’s Fan Quilt

  The fan pattern is one of my favorites. I’ve completed two fan quilts and have two others in progress. I like all fans — smooth, pointy or scalloped. I purchased the fan blades for this quilt on ebay, and they were so clean, all I had to do was trim them a [...]

  January 20th, 2009

• Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt

  This quilt was started in 2002 when I acquired an old Christmas card box filled with vintage hexagons. As usual, some of the pieces were dingy and most were not cut accurately. After soaking, pressing, drawing with a fresh template and re-cutting, they were good as new. I sorted them into color [...]

  January 18th, 2009

• Green Crocheted Doily

  This doily was made by me for my mother in 1980 from a pattern in Magic Crochet magazine. I taught myself to crochet when I was in my twenties by checking out an instruction book from the library. My first projects were potholders — lots of potholders — each with a different pattern [...]

  January 16th, 2009

• Vintage Coloring Book Covers

  These books were part of a big lot of coloring books I purchased thinking they might have some cute drawings for embroidery. Some of the them did, but unfortunately the pages in these three were not that cute. As is the case with many of these vintage coloring books, the illustrator of the [...]

  January 15th, 2009