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Testing my Newest Design

1/3/2026

The Christmas and New year festivities are now over for another year and, as always, it was filled with joy, fun and family. My little granddaughters are growing by leaps and bounds and the youngest had a lot of fun tearing open her gifts.

After having a nice break over the holidays, I am back to stitching and testing patterns. My son's girlfriend is from Persia and has a beautiful Persian rug in their living room. With Fargol's permission, I took a photo of it and designed a rug that is as true to the original as I could make it. I was able to match the colors and with the exception of 1, all colors are true to the original.

This little pillow is a test stitching project to test the colors in a miniature setting and to test some of the elements I have included in the rug pattern. I wanted to try and achieve as much detail as I could but, as always with miniature, I had to simplify or remove some things in order to have a pleasing pattern. Colors that blend with each other are that way in the original rug.

This little pillow, named the Fargol Pillow is the result. The pattern is now available in our shop. You may find it by clicking on the name of the pillow. I am also testing some of the other elements in the rug, but these will not be incorporated into a pillow, they will just be randomly spread out over the canvas. Once my second test stitching is finished, I will decide on the parts to incorporate into the rug and make the pattern available. For now, I hope you enjoy this little pillow pattern.

My Last Lucille Pillow

12/22/2025

At long last, my Lucille pillow series is finished. This is the last in the set and the pattern is now ready for purchase if interested. I call it Lucille Pillow 5.

Since my 6 pillows have now been stitched and all motifs are now tested, I am happy to say that the Lucille rug is also available for purchase!

Christmas is fast approaching, so I will be taking a break from stitching during the holiday season. The new year will bring a new rug project I will be stitching. The pattern is printed, the colors chosen and the silk gauze is mounted. It is one that I designed last year and the test stitching has been completed. Ever since I designed it, the rug has been calling to me and it will be my largest stitched rug to date. I will let you know more about it in the new year. Until then, I hope you all have a nice holiday season.

Lucille Pillow 4

12/17/2025

My Lucille Pillow 4 is now stitched and the pattern is ready for sale. You may find the link here: Lucille Pillow 4.

After my little break in which I stitched a Christmas Stocking, I am now back to stitching these little pillows with renewed energy. I am finding they are stitching up a little quicker now because I do not need to look at the chart for the border part.

One more to go...

Lucille 3 Pillow Ready

12/7/2025

Another Lucille pillow finished. I have uploaded the pattern in our shop and it is now ready for purchase: Lucille 3 Pillow

2 more pillows to stitch. I may take a little break from stitching the border so many times and stitch a little stocking from one of my test stitching stash.

Lucille Pillow 2 Finished

12/2/2025

This past week I finished my Lucille 2 pillow and the pattern is now available for purchase.

I am finding it fun seeing how each pillow turns out as I finish them. Stitching the border over and over is getting boring though. Several more to go...

Another Lucille Pillow

11/26/2025

In an earlier post, I spoke of my Lucille pillow, which was the first in a series of little pillows I have designed to test motifs in my Lucille Rug before I offer the pattern for sale.

After a little hiatus, where I stitched a Christmas Stocking, I have now stitched my Lucille 1 Pillow and the pattern is being offered for sale.

This pillow went through a couple of color transformations before I was happy with the result. One of the motifs was originally designed in a dark blue, but I accidentally stitched it in a dark green. I found I liked it better and it looked better in the rug pattern, so the green won the day.

I have found that when working in the evenings stitching, it takes me approximately 5 days to finish a pillow. My next post will most likely be in 5-6 days as I have decided to finish working the Lucille pillows before I start another testing project. I have quite a few patterns left to test and I am continuing to work through them before I allow myself to get started on my next large rug.

Leona Flowers pillow

11/14/2025

Last week, I started stitching another little pillow pattern. This morning I finished the last stitches and sewed the backing fabric onto it. This little pillow reminds me of Spring and Summer and as Winter is approaching, I needed this little pick me up.

I have named this little pillow my Leona Flowers Pillow and it is now available in our shop.

I took some elements from my Leona rug, changed some colors and blended them into this pillow pattern.

Currently, I am also finishing a little Christmas Stocking I have designed and almost have ready to unveil. Stay tuned for my next post...

Two Little Pillows Finished

11/1/2025

In an earlier post, I showed you a little Christmas pillow that I began stitching after the MET show.

I have now finished the little Teddy Bear pillow and was on a roll, so I stitched this little Bunny pillow as well!

The Bunny pillow pattern will be available shortly, but the Teddy Bear pattern is available when you click on the orange words above.

A New Christmas Pillow

10/25/2025

After getting everything sorted and put away from our MET show experience, I finally have some time to stitch again.

I decided to continue stitching little pillows both for new inventory and for test stitching my new patterns waiting in the wings. I began with this little cutie. Pattern located here: Teddy. I now have only the background to fill in and am loving how he turned out. My next one will be a little bunny before I turn my attention to more test stitching.

Yesterday, I added a few new patterns to our store and updated some of the ones already there. While designing a new Christmas stocking, I noticed that I had forgotten to chart the letter "U" in my alphabet offered with some of the stockings!

That, of course, triggered a whole new set of patterns for each of my stockings that could have names! In the process of updating them online, I also added my Christmas Stocking 4. You may see it by clicking on the name, which will take you to the pattern.

A Nod to Halloween

10/16/2025

A few weeks ago, my youngest daughter requested I design some Halloween pillows since it is fast approaching. The Halloween Witch pillow is the result. I stitched it on 40 count silk gauze, but it would be just as good done on 48 count gauze.
For this little pillow, I stitched the dark blue background first so that I could easily see the outline of the moon. The witch was the second

element to be stitched with the moon being last. After stitching so many pillows lately, I am getting to be an expert at turning them after stitching the backing fabric on! The pattern for this delightful little pillow is now available in our shop by following this link: Halloween Pillow

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