frank lloyd wright

Sunflowers and a Mini Vacation from The Cozy Quilter

This past week was not very productive in the sewing room but I did spend several hours working on my sunflower cross stitch picture. I would really like to finish this picture in the next month or so as I would like to start a Christmas cross stitch project and maybe finish it in time for Christmas...

When we went to Newfoundland in June, we happened upon a little knitting store called "Skivvers Fibre Studio and Wool Craft" in Cow Head where I purchased a pattern book and wool to make myself a hat, mittens and a scarf. I have ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 7 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , frank lloyd wright , knitting , pumpkins , slow sunday stitching

Fallingwater from The Snarky Quilter

Tucked away in Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands, east of Pittsburgh, is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpieces. Fallingwater was built for the Kaufman family in the 1930s as their summer retreat. Its setting is fantastical – partly suspended over a waterfall – and totally impractical. It is a triumph of vision over reality.

For my birthday this year my husband arranged a trip there. We drove by such tourist attractions as Jellystone Park (Yogi Bear’s home) to reach the long drive up to the visitors center. Timed small group tours take you through the main house and guest house. The ...

added by snarkyquilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under architecture , everything else , fallingwater , frank lloyd wright , laurel highlands (Comments)

Home from Our Getaway! from The Cozy Quilter

We got home Saturday night at 1am from a 6 day trip to Illinois and Indiana. It was our first time crossing the border to the US since before the pandemic. My quilting friend, Christine, and her husband came with us. The original inspiration for the trip was an advertisement I saw online for a display of Ken Burns' antique quilts at the Peoria Riverfront Museum in Illinois...I told my husband that it would be interesting to see this exhibit and the vacation grew out of this small seed that I planted! We spent a few hours at the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 11 months ago. under baby gifts , baby quilts , finn , frank lloyd wright , ken burns' quilts , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching , vacations

This and That from The Cozy Quilter

I made steady progress this week on "Love Birds", a counted cross stitch picture I am making for C and M for their wedding which took place late in 2020. My goal this past week was to finish the leaves and start the next large blue flower. Mission accomplished!

Here is a closer up view of the section I worked on this week.

It may take a week or two to finish the blue flower. There are a lot of stitches in it!

My friend, A, celebrated a birthday this week so I made her a zippered pouch using some ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 2 months ago. under blackwork , colour blocks , counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , frank lloyd wright , love birds , scraps , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Frank is Finished! from The Cozy Quilter

I visited my daughter last weekend and spent my time on the train trip to get there working on my Frank Lloyd Wright Waterlilies cross stitch picture.

I finished off the outlining at the bottom of the picture while my daughter was at work and did a little happy dance of joy! I was done! (I could not really dance for joy because Finn was sleeping on my lap, but you know what I mean.)

I took the picture out this morning to take some pictures to do my blogpost and discovered that I was not really done.

I still ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 4 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , frank lloyd wright , hand sewing , slow sunday stitching

Frank and Some Gift Making from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a little time with Frank this week and made some progress on this project, finally. It is not as interesting to do the outlining as it is to do the cross stitching so I may be guilty of avoiding FLW for the last little while. I am determined to finish this Waterlilies window so I will get moving on it.

A group of friends/former colleagues and I got together for dinner last night and I made each of them a zippered pouch...

The other four pouches are shown below.

It's fun to dig through my stash ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 5 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , frank lloyd wright , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Happy Thanksgiving! from The Cozy Quilter

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! My daughter and Finn are here for the weekend so there have been lots of walks and playtime! I have not shown my Frank Lloyd Wright project for a couple of weeks--you can see I have done more yellow cross stitches and more outlining. My MIL gave us the squirrel!

I have spent quite a bit of time sewing this week. I managed to finish the trees for my Coming Home project. I am still a few months behind, but I am moving forward. Houses (pieced) are up next and then I will do the appliqué doors ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 6 months ago. under applique , counted cross stitch , finn , frank lloyd wright , hand sewing , slow sunday stitching

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