folk art creatures

Daffodils, A Birthday and Cross Stitch from The Cozy Quilter

My husband and I were both under the weather earlier this week so that negatively affected how much sewing I got done this week. Hopefully, I can make up for it next week! I did manage to add some blue and brown to my cross stitch project. The brown part will be a windmill, eventually!

Finn received this Lambie toy for Christmas and, recently, almost removed Lambie's reindeer antlers. I sewed them back on by machine with a mending stitch, which was distressing to Finn and he barked at me as I sewed. He was happy to have Lambie ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under books , counted cross stitch , finn , folk art creatures , gardens , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

Kintail Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I spent last weekend at Camp Kintail at the crafter's retreat. Others were making paper crafts, scrapbooks, knitting and painting. Four participants were quilting. It's always fun to see what everyone is making. The food and snacks were plentiful and tasty too.

My first project was an open wide zipper pouch that I had started at home. This one may just stay here for me to use. This project was a good place to use the large scale print that I loved but would not be good to cut up into smaller pieces

Next, I made ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilts , embroidery , finn , folk art creatures , hand quilting , jo avery , knitting , oxford quilters guild , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , thread house academy , walking foot quilting , zippered pouch

My Bluebird of Happiness! from The Cozy Quilter

As I have said previously, I signed up for a year of Threadhouse Academy classes this year and have been working away at several, but not all of the projects. This month's project is Folk Art Dolls taught by Jo Avery. They are too cute to resist so I decided to make a bird first. I used a piece of felted wool for the beak and hand stitched it down with pearl cotton blanket stitches. I embroidered the eyes and the X's as well as the fly stitches on the body. The legs, feet, and wings also have ...

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