While The Monster Rests

Not this little monster, covered in bubbles.

But this monster. It's resting, waiting for my machine to come back from being serviced.

In fact it did come home, but only for half a day, and then went back again. It seems they bent the needle threader.

So in between being entertained my this little monster, I kept a little busy with this little hanging.

The birds just need their eyes sewn on and find a hanger and I can call it done.

She's such a poser, but who could resist that sweet face.

Today's mail brought a package from a fellow blogger. Michele  sent this lovely parcel, just for answering a couple of technical questions.

Yumm chocolate, every quilters standby snack. As you can see it's been tested for flavor content, and it passed. Included in the parcel was a pattern for paper pieced "Emily's Stars" and sweet fabrics to make it up in. Thank you so much Michele.

Happy Stitching.
Linda

Pretty Girls

Several weeks ago I showed you this little peek. Not much to go on, but all I could show at the time.Several of you asked to see the end results of some of  the dressmaking.

My very dear friend Bren has a young daughter, Charlotte, and a small grand daughter, Emerson. She loves to dress both in feminine and modest clothing, but she feels she doesn't have the skills to make them herself. So with that, I made the decision to send a couple of outfits for the girls.

A little lilac gingham top with what Bren describes as a pocket full of posies.

When I made the pink gingham dress I held it up and thought my gosh this is going to swim on this little dot of a girl, but I'm happy to see that it fits and that she can grow into the length.

Bren tells me that Emerson walked around with this little dress on saying "Pwetty.

Charlotte is an extremely tall girl for her age and very slim so finding a pattern that wouldn't look like it was swimming on her was a bit of a challenge. Bren tells me that Charlotte loves the dress and that it's a perfect fit. Phew what a relief. All the flowers around the hem of the dress I fussy cut and appliqued on, once the lower band was attached to the hemline and then added purple ric rac.

I'm happy to report that I managed to find and save all my pattern designs that I thought had been lost in that dreaded black hole and many of the photo's. Now to back them all up.

Happy Stitching.
Linda

Winner

Thank you for all your words of commiseration about that horrible black hole. I phoned DS (Luke, our own IT geek) in Australia the other day and he's suggested a couple of programs that are available from the Internet and the purchase of a USB Key to load all the lost files onto. So hopefully by next week we'll have everything back on the PC.
Now on to the winner of the 500 post giveaway. I had to quickly get this little item finished in time for today. So there were a couple of late night stitching sessions.

"Spring Blooms", done in pale green and lemon and natural Essex cotton/ linen.

All washed and crinkly, and ready to go to it's new owner.

Who is: Michele 
Who  said...
Best of luck getting out of that black hole. I'm cringing here. But will I back up my files? Probably not. Sometimes we never learn! I feel for ya though!

Michele send me your address and I'll get this in tomorrows post for you.

Happy Stitching.
Linda

500 and The Black Hole

Who would have thought that I could come up with 500 posts to talk about. I always knew I could talk, but my gosh. So in celebration I have a little something that I'm in the process of completing as a thank you. A thank you for your friendship, understanding, words of encouragement and advice. We've all said it before in so many different ways, but having a blog has opened up a whole new world of quilting, stitching and friendships that otherwise may not have been possible.
How to enter, it's simple just leave a comment and you're name will go into the draw. If your set at no-reply I'm sorry but your name won't be considered. You don't need to be a follower, or post about this, in fact I'd prefer that you didn't. There aren't any extra entries for jumping through hoops, just a single comment will get your name into the hat.
Now onto the black hole. Hollie was fiddling around on the PC last night when all of a sudden the monitor went that horrible shade of black. We managed to restore the PC, only to discover this morning, that ALL the photo's have been lost along with ALL my pattern instructions and of course all the bookmarks. They've vanished into that black hole. I could have cried when I discovered this, but it's done, there's nothing that can be done about it, so it's time to move on and not get my knickers in a twist over it.

Happy Stitching.
Linda