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Finished the Ruby-Green pillow

11/23/2022

This week I finished sewing my little Ruby-green pillow together. Pattern for this pillow may be found here: Ruby-Green. You may recall that this pillow was the one that had the least space between the edge of the pillow and the edge of the Christmas rug. I am happy to say my experiment worked beautifully and I now know that I can stitch small projects that close to the edge of a rug if I have some extra gauze. It is not for the faint-hearted though because there were very few rows that I had available to work with. It all paid off though because the little pillow went together very easily and I was able to get some great photos with which to write my tutorial. The tutorial will be coming soon and will be found in my Tutorial section. For now, I am just happy that it worked and I am now going back to stitching my Katrianna rug...

Katrianna Pillow finished!

11/3/2022

Finished the stitching on my Katrianna pillow this week and love how the colors have turned out. The flowers are not meant to represent specific flowers and I love the softness of the color blends and the little punches of deeper color.
I have two small purses to stitch along the bottom of the Christmas rug and then I will be able to remove the rug and extras from the frame and begin blocking everything at the same time. I have designed an interesting Bargello style clutch purse for this area and will stitch it twice using different colors.

Katrianna Pillow Started

10/29/2022

This week I began my Katrianna pillow. As the original design is for 40 count fabric, I had to add some rows around the border to make it measure 1 inch on 48 count fabric. Luckily, this was an easy thing to do and I have now finished stitching the border and started on the middle.
If you wish to see what the design will look like, you may view it here: Katrianna Cushion.

Now that I am almost half finished this little pillow I am going to begin designing something to stitch along the end of the rug. There isn't a lot of space there so I can't do another pillow. I am thinking I will design a little clutch purse or maybe some slippers. I am excited to see what I come up with!

The little snowman is finished

10/22/2022

I finished the little snowman pillow faster than expected and now have the pattern posted ready for purchase. This little guy/gal was fun to stitch and has been done on 48 count fabric to make the pillow 1" x 1" (2.5 cm x 2.5 cm). However, it is perfectly within scale to stitch it on 40 count fabric as well.
If interested in the pattern, it may be found here: Christmas Cushion 1 - Snowman. I started another little cushion last night using up a bit more of the space around the Christmas Rug so I am one step closer to being able to

remove everything from the frame and begin blocking. At the moment I am itching to begin my next petit point rug but am restraining myself until I can begin blocking this set of projects. That way I won't be delaying finishing this one in favor of beginning another. Until next time, happy stitching!

A little more of the pillow unfolds...

10/20/2022

After the show, I haven't had a lot of time to stitch but do have a bit more done on the little cushion now. Here is my updated photo for this week. Next week I am hoping to have it finished and will post my completed version then.
For the moment I am having a bit of a rest after the fun and work of the show.

Began a new project!

10/11/2022

As you may have noticed, it is never very long before I begin a new mini stitching project. Last night I had an hour to relax after working on room and fire screens for the upcoming M.E.T. show in Toronto, so I started a new little pillow.

This pillow is a new one I have designed for a Christmas display. I am not going to reveal what I have put onto this pillow pattern yet but you will see as it unfolds. For now, all you can see is this little teaser! 😉

I am catching spare moments during the evenings to work on some Christmas pillow designs so more will be coming soon. I have

space for one more pillow around the outside of my Christmas rug then will switch to designing a small purse or two before removing the gauze from the frame and blocking everything. At that time I will find out if I have enough gauze to finish the rug and the pillows. If I do not have enough to stitch the pillows and only the edge on the rug, I will sacrifice the pillows or possibly make a little frame for them and mount them as wall hangings. When it is time to finish the rug, I will take photos of each stage and post them on this blog to show you how I did everything. Fingers crossed that my plans work!

Finished!

9/23/2022

This week I finished my little pillow top based on my Ruby-green rug. I will not be able to make a pillow from it for a while though as it is one of the projects I have stitched around my Christmas Rug. The pattern for this darling little cushion may now be found here: Ruby Green Cushion.
I am now taking a little break from stitching miniature so that I may work on a life-sized project that I have been doing for the last few years.

I am also making some room screens in preparation for the MET show I will be attending on October 15th. Lots to keep me busy!

A "work in progress"

9/16/2022

This past week I have been happily stitching a color test pillow based on my Ruby-Green dollhouse rug. I often like to do this when testing colors. Even though I know the colors will work together in the rug-as I tested them earlier-I have now decided to stitch little pillows so I can get a better look at the effect.
I like the subtle color changes in this pillow.
You will notice that, for the brown line, I have changed the direction of some of the stitches in the corners. This is so that I can see a better shape on the outline instead of seeing a "ladder" effect. I wish now that I had also done this on the corner motifs. I may decide to pull out the stitching of the two corner motifs and change the direction of those stitches later.
The great thing about stitching pillows is that I

don't have to worry about how neat the back is. If I pull out some stitching and it looks terrible on the back - no worries, no one will ever see it!
Little pillows stitch up so quickly that they can be a great project when you don't wish to tackle a full rug. This one is being stitched on 48 count gauze. Some may not like how the white on the motifs blend in with the green background on this one so another color from the rug can be substituted very easily. This has been noted in the rug chart.

Finished a little cushion stitching

9/9/2022

After stitching my Christmas Rug I began stitching small things to fill in some of the extra gauze I had around the rug before I take it off of the frame.
Here is my first little project completed. It is my Cairin Cushion and measures 1" x 1" (2.5 cm x 2.5 cm). The Cairin cushion was designed to complement my Cairin rug and has very subtle shades of grey mixed in with the winter white moon to simulate the craters of the moon. They don't show up very well in this picture but in person they look great!
This cushion will stay on the gauze until I complete my projects around the border of the Chirstmas Rug.

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