Baby Sewing

I have been baby sewing the last few months.  We are expecting our eigth grandchild on March 8th.  Her name is going to be Kennedi.  She will be born in Japan and she will be about 9 months old before we get to see her.  Way past that new baby stage.  With an older brother and sister I bet her personality is going to be "outgoing".

For each of the grandchildren I have made a quilt.  This one is for Kennedi.  I am putting it in the mail today in hopes it arrives before she does.

The front of the blanket has  the cutest bunnies on it. The center bunny is dressed in a hat and apron surrounded by flowers.  This block is hand embroidered.

The back of the quilt is dainty pink rose buds with a creamy yellow background. 

The finished size is 55x42 and will be perfect for her crib.

Week Five of TAST

By now Sharon has had her Sunday morning coffee and browsed all the photo's for Week 5 of TAST. She didn’t find mine because I failed to take the time to photograph my stitching. So here I am. I really need to train myself to take the photo's as soon as I finish the stitching so I can have things posted on time.

In doing this stitch, I first used pearl cotton #8 in variegated green. Then added the purple pearl cotton making it a bit longer than I did with the green thread. I added lazy daisy's and a bead to dress it up.

This is week 4 of the TAST Challenge, the cretan stitch. I used it as a seam treatment on the main seam. Again, for decoration at the bottom of the fan holding down the piece of knitting ribbon.

Use this link to join in with the stitching.
http://inaminuteago.com/blog/index.php/archives/category/take-a-stitch-tuesday/

This link will take you to the flickr photo gallery.
http://flickr.com/groups/56846286@N00/

Week 3 of Take a Stitch Tuesday Challenge

About a month ago I had recieved an envelope with several designs to use for motifs. I decided to use the tea pot.

The peacock was emailed to me. The process I used to transfer the motif was simple. I layed "Press and Seal" over the design, then traced it. I placed the Press and Seal over the fabric and stitched. I did need to spend a few minutes removing the Press and Seal, but the results are woth it.

I used the Lazy daisy stitch on the flowers of the tea pot then as a running stitch below.

There two colors of thread used doing the lazy daisy stitch in the feather, a single one for the running stitch.

The feather was created by placing a bead in the center, adding a bullion wrapped about 35 times, then the lazy daisy stitch was added.

This link will take you to more photo's from stitchers taking the TAST Challenge.

http://flickr.com/groups/56846286@N00/

This link will take you to the TAST Challenge web site. Go ahead take the challenge and follow along with all the stitching.

http://inaminuteago.com/blog/index.php/archives/category/take-a-stitch-tuesday/