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A New Tutorial Uploaded

12/5/2025

I am happy to announce that after several Christmas stockings stitched lately, I have created a tutorial for finishing a Christmas stocking. You may find this new tutorial here: Tutorial #10

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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...

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Another Lucille Pillow

11/26/2025

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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.

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November 25th, 2025

11/25/2025

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A New Christmas Stocking

11/24/2025

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During my limited down-time, I have stitched a little stocking to test my newest designs. I designed this one for both 40 count and 48 count silk gauze so that you may choose which count you would like to use. There is room for a small name at the top in the banner area, which I did not stitch in my example.

I had a bit of trouble when stitching this stocking because it was turning out smaller than I expected and I kept thinking I had designed the pattern incorrectly. The lightbulb suddenly went on just as I finished stitching it. I had mounted 48 count silk gauze and accidentally printed out the 40 count pattern! Therefore, the stocking turned out smaller than I expected and I cannot sell it. All is not lost though because it showed me the colors have all worked out the way I wanted, which is ultimately my reason for stitching it and my patterns were correct.

The 2 patterns have now been uploaded to our shop and are available for sale. The 40 count version may be found here: Stocking 14 and the 48 count version may be found here: Stocking 15
Both turn out approximately the same size when stitched on the correct count of gauze. Don't make the same mistake I did, LOL! This is just another lesson I have learned to not trust my memory when starting to stitch a pattern, double check that you have the correct gauze mounted, unless of course, you want to make it bigger or smaller deliberately. :)

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Leona Flowers pillow

11/14/2025

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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...

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Updated Photo Albums Completed

11/3/2025

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After more than a week gathering and laminating photos, I now have our new photo albums assembled ready for our next miniature show in May.

Several customers will be able to browse at once now through our albums since we now have 7 to choose from.

It was a lot of fun assembling these and reprinting all of the photos to make them consistent with our color theme. Many of the old photos printed by a photo shop had cropped either the sides or ends of the patterns and I had no choice but to use them at the time. I am very lucky to have a good printer and all of the photos came out very clear with excellent color.

I am looking forward to seeing how these will be received next May!

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Two Little Pillows Finished

11/1/2025

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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.

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Improving our Photo Album

10/29/2025

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Last week my youngest daughter loaned me her laminating machine so that I could begin creating my own photo albums to take to any Miniature Shows that I sell at. I have decided that a regular album doesn't work anymore and the pictures are not displayed to their best advantage.
I have never used a laminator before and am really enjoying the results I am seeing. For those who haven't used one either, the sheets are slightly opaque as seen at the top of the first photo, then turn very clear once they have passed through the laminator. I purchased sheets large enough to laminate 2 sets of photos on each page.
To further make my albums more user friendly, I have made up a description card for each page with details about each rug.

After 3 days of printing out my own photos, description cards and laminating all, I am finally done laminating the main pages. In total, I laminated 111 pages of photos with 2 photos per page. That is a lot of patterns!

Next, I need to create covers for the albums and cut each page down to a better size. I am also debating whether to use clear acrylic sheets for the back of the albums or another laminated page. I will have to decide soon!

I intend to have separate albums for each group of sizes. For example: 4" x 6" rugs, 5" x 7" rugs, etc, similar to the categories in our shop. I am also toying with the idea of creating tabs to separate each style of rug within the album, but am not sure that will work out for me yet.

Yesterday was Day 4 working on this project. Little did I know it would take so long, but I think it will be worth it in the long run. I have set up my cutting mat with guidelines for cutting out the pages so that they all turn out the same size.

I was able to cut out 1/2 of the pages in the afternoon and will cut out the rest today. As I cut them out, I arranged them in order of size. Below shows some of the pages trimmed and sorted.

Today, I will re-set my guidelines on my cutting mat to trim the other half of the photos. I need to do this because the other half have much more space around the photo that needs to be trimmed off. Once I get new guidelines set, I should be able to finish the trimming today.

This has turned out to be a great project and I am very much enjoying the planning and execution of it. I think having different albums will give more people a chance to properly browse our patterns instead of feeling that they are taking too long. One album limits the amount of time people can browse because they feel they are holding others back from viewing the patterns. I could not find store-bought albums that would allow me to include everything I wanted, so, being the craft-minded person that I am, I am creating my own. Such fun!!

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A New Christmas Pillow

10/25/2025

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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.

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A New Tutorial Uploaded

Lucille Pillow 2 Finished

Another Lucille Pillow

November 25th, 2025

A New Christmas Stocking

Leona Flowers pillow

Updated Photo Albums Completed

Two Little Pillows Finished

Improving our Photo Album

A New Christmas Pillow

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