Who Says Waffles Can't Be Stitched!

                     This tissue box cover design came from a Nancy Dorman. Including this one, I've made two of these in my life (for the same person, mind you). With this pattern (the waffle stitch) you can almost always guarantee that even the colors navy blue and white will arrive at success. As the artist I must tell you that even though the pattern looks complicated, it's really not. For me to make this was no drawn-out process; it took me about a week altogether. I just love it!

A Stitch, A Brick

                         The design for these tissue box cover churches came from a needle worker by the name of Angie Arickx. What's cool about the design is that the steeple flips over so one can remove a tissue! I turned 4 of these into a $100 order and I must say that to do these churches was no simple task! It took me several months just to make the pieces AND overcast them. I think it's a miracle that I managed to sew them together in the course of 1 week while on winter break. I'm not proud of the dilemma I encountered toward my finishing the 4 churches which was that I sewed the first steeple on the wrong side! It scared me at first, but thankfully I was told that I could alternate and do the next one right and the one after that wrong and so on so it was as if the customer had a choice as to how they wanted it to go. I tshink that besides the 12 quilt houses, this was my most challenging order to date!

The Gift of Kleenex

                               This tissue box cover is a design taken from http://www.herrschners.com/ exactly 4 years ago-it's no longer there. I completed it 3 years ago as a Christmas gift. The tissue is pulled out between the loops at the top. I remember being excited for this project because of the bow design-so exquisite in its placement! At the time of completion I felt as if what I had done was not good enough, as I always do when the colors are not what has been called for in the original pattern. Seeing it again with fresh eyes for the first time in years, though, made me feel very accomplished and it was as if the colors mattered very little. I think my bow saved me! : )