The One-and-Only Envelopurse

           Diane Patton designed this magnificent purse creation. The stitches used are somewhere close to the basket-weave stitch but with four different colors. This took me about a week to complete and what I would describe as a spur-of-the-moment decision to make this thing. Trust me when I say that the inside fabric I used to line this baby is a beautiful pink dotted with silver star sparkles! I gave it away as a birthday gift.

Fire Furnished

                 I have posted here in the past a blue version of this Japanese meadow tissue box cover. This is the new and "improved" fire colors version! As you can see, I have stitched my logo on only one side of the box. It took me a few weeks to make this. The design is once again credited to Conn Baker Gibney.

Zebra

           I love this tissue box cover even though the pattern made me dizzy! It might be hard to see but you can definitely spot my logo on the side there. The zebra normally has a multi-colored puff on the front of all four sides but was requested without one. The design is credited to Conn Baker Gibney.

The Cottage Purse

                            I made this on my last vacation and it's amazing how quickly I can complete a project when I have the time! It comes from the incredible mind of Dorothea Gillis. Immediately upon beginning this I realized a problem; how easy it is to see the mesh through the yarn stitches. I struggled through just using a clear mesh instead of white but ultimately decided that I'd be the only one to notice this, and it gives the purse more of an authentic feel anyway. This took me maybe a week and a few days to complete. I just love it.

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! : )

Lookin' Good Mr. President!

I know that I've posted an Obama Box before- but be aware-this is not the same one! I finished this one about a week ago. As you can see, the 5 pieces are sewn together with a goldish-orangish colored yarn picked out because I knew how awesome it would look! This box is also significant because apparently it's the only Obama Box I haven't messed up. To make this one I had to go off a previous pattern which happened to be the last one I posted. It turns out that I did the hair wrong in different ways on all 4 sides! So for the first piece that I stitched this time, I had to go off the original online printout I have so as to make sure all the pieces look the same. Do you like the change?

{Velvety Delight}

This gorgeous, velvety creation was designed by Shirley Evers. The red colored-yarn looks so thick because I used double stitching instead of single stitching. The book said otherwise but if you look at the bottom, you can see how the box's design virtually would've looked. One would be able to see the through the yarn to the mesh which is a no-no for me! Although leaving the mesh bare can sometimes be tasteful, like the bottom for this box.I lined the insides with silver fabric to match the lines weaving diamonds on the red.The stuffing is just to keep the box's shape. The size of this box is approx. 7" by 5"by 3", just in case anyone's wondering :)