Pieces of Friendship Swap

I finished all my pieces for Pat's Pieces of Friendship swap last night.

It was great. I must to put together hostess gift and send them to Pat

2 more works for local craft

I did 2 more works for local craft show. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture before I put my lace and rose and music paper collage under glass. So I am apologising for the poor quality of these images.
The second one is a old doilies and hearts wall hanging.
I use the old doilies as a back ground for hearts. It was the one of the many other projects that I try to do from old crochets. I hope after Passover and spring cleaning i will do more works with old laces and crochets.

CQ pouch for MP

Hello
My dear dear son (15 year old boy) ask from me to do a CQ pouch for his MP. It was really big surprise for me. I was ask him if he will go with this pouch to school or to handball team. And he told me - YES. So I stitch for him his pouch. Obviously I don't put a lace or beads on. I use the scraps that still after all his closes (when he was small boy). I stitch for him a big quilt last year but I still have a really small pieces.
And most impotent - he already use this pouch.


The back side.

New CQ for year local craft show.

Hello

This year we have another local craft show. This is the "Women create women"craft show.
I am finished my old work for this show.
If you remember I was start to do the David star CQ. But I was have a hand problem and can't stitsh for few month. When I came back to sitch and did a few tiriangle blocks for the star rays they came out in different style and I don't love it.
But the hexagon block wiyh gold ribbon was very finished for me. So I was did a 4 burgundy triangle CQ blocks for the corners. Add a burgundy borders.I stitched the gold ribbon bitween the birder and the burgundy blocks . Put layer of flanel for the batting.

I am did only plane stitches on the burgundy blocks to keep the balance with havy 3D centre piece.

And you can see my first really big ( 24x27 inch including borders) CQ wallhanging DONE.

New pincushion

Hello

I did a new pincusion for my friend. She don't received this yet so I can't told here name.

I was want do bring a bit af happy to here. I found that I don't get my hand back to the stitching , but I was try to do the best as I can.

I did the envelope stile back. So it my be used in few ways.

1. Scissors fob. Just add a few hard things inside.

2. Keyring as it is.

3. Fridge magnet add a magnet to back side pocket.4. And a pincushion.

I hope she will love it

New works

Hello

I just want to show few things that I did.

The pincushion on his way to my best friend Lena.

Happy stitching

Lace cleaning

Hello


I cam back. I have had few health issues that don't gone, but I can write few notes.

This time wasn't lost for me. I was check out few sites on Internet and sort all my supplies.

And I found that


1. I have too much laces and buttons for all my life.

2. I need to clean few of my laces.


I found this great old tutorials for lace cleaning . I try them out with and they was great.


You need lace, washing powder ( soap), glass bottle and basin (or any container for soap water bigger then bottle) hot water.

1. Wrap lace around the bottle and stitch the ends together with thread.

2. Put hot water and washing powder (stain remover optional) in the basin and put bottle inside.

3. Waite for few hours. On this stage I was rub lace very gentele with my hand. Rinse lace very well and check them. If you pleased with results let it dry on the bottle , if you not go to the step 1 and do a new soap water.

For few very old and very dirty pieces of hand embroidery I did for 3 days. Change a water 4-5 times. It was worth it. I even wasn't need to irone it.

And if somebody want lace or button's for sale or swap let me know in the comments.

Happy stitching.