Willing Hands 2

 

One of my favorite designers is Betsy Morgan. I've been to lots of her classes. She is a really nice person too. I have two sheves of her stuff in one of my curios. Inspirations Studios has just published her second book of Etui patterns.

These are all the patterns in the book. I have made about four of them.

There are two that I am especially interested in stitching. This is called Exact Change.

The other one I want to make is the Holbein Hexagon Etui.

This is just one shelf of my Betsy projects. I ordered the threads for these two projects.

Diamondc asked where I got the butterfly brooch. It was from an Etsy shop  called "Butterfly Brooch" and the shop owner is listed as Svetlana.  It is a shop in Russia. I actually didn't look at her other items until today. She has lots of other embroidered butterflies. I could waste a ton of time looking at Etsy offerings. 

Tomorrow it is time to change the calendar again. Wow, August went by fast!

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A Butterfly

 This week is all about haul. I saw a post with this brooch.

I went to this girl's Etsy store and it was available so I bought it. It had to travel halfway around the world. It is unique with sequins and pearls.

A better photo.

It is fun to wear.

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Saturday

 I finished the tomahto so now the whole project is done!

I'm working on the needlebook of The Garden Thief. I love this design.

My walking is done. I think next week I can post haul every day.

Have a nice weekend!

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Two Finishes!

 I finished the scissors case to The Garden Thief.  I was on a roll and also finished the little ort bowl. 

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Three of the parts are now done .

DH is back from the grocery store so time to go walking before it gets beastly hot. 

Goal for Thursday

 I am happy to say I finished Dreaming Girl and put together a package to my friend who makes project bags.

Today I want to finish the scissors case from Amy Mitten's The Garden Thief.

I had to remind myself how to do the hedebo stitch. There is a magnet that helps hold the scissors in the case. If everything goes well, I'd also like to get that tomahto all done too. We'll see how things go.

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Goal

 The goal for today is to finish Dreaming Girl. My friend Vicki said she would sew it into a bag for me. Thank you Vicki!

I am so close!

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New Magazine

I got another issue of the Italian magazine Giuliana Ricama. 

It has several articles about lace.

The table of contents:

I like when they include instructions on how to do a stitch.

Elisabetta Sforza designs beautiful things. I meant to order her latest book. I think Mary Corbet was out of it so I don't think I have it. Isn't that nice writing? Elisabetta does gorgeous monograms.

Beautiful butterflies suspended in a ring.

I have been trying to finish my tomahto. I keep making mistakes. I was supposed to close up the bottom but, of course, I did the top. I think I have to be in the mood and have a clear head. Too hot out today. Maybe I should stick with something simple.

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