Silk Yo-Yo's

I whipped up a lot of Yo-Yo's last night,silk, tulle,cotton.

Interviewing...deciding on where they should go.

This I like, beads and vintage buttons will be added too.

Napa Valley for Inspiration,

Road trip to Napa Valley yesterday..

Castello di Amorosa, we took the tour

 Our road trip to Napa was refreshing and exciting, from agriculture to architecture, magnificent. We toured the Castello di Amorosa, a reproduction of a medieval castle surrounded by 30 acres of vineyards. It is located in Calistoga, Ca, north of St. Helena and Napa.I highly recommend the tour, castellodiamorosa.com.

Beautiful vineyards in spring

New Sewing Kit progress..

Hand embroidery added, beading next...

 I have beads to add and silk Yo-Yos, vintage mother of pearl buttons maybe some tulle....I have a vintage jewelery finding I'm considering... interviewing, this is the fun part.

Grape vine; stem stitch, french knots & lazy daisys

I'm also working on this sewing kit as part of a "mini challenge" in Sharon's Pintangle Work-in-Progress Wednesday ; http://pintangle.com/category/projects/work-in-progress-wednesdays/ .I post my progress on Wednesday's and discuss ideas or issues, always fun.

Happy Easter...

Happy Easter!

Modern Style Quilt, hand and machine quilted 2014

I used batiks from my collection

 I saw these blocks in a quilt but much smaller. I worked out the bigger size I wanted and cut them out and pieced them together. There is no border. I machine quilted and hand quilted it for the effect. Ripple, sparkle, textured.

Two blocks make up this quilt

I used two different shades of white for the effect

I call it Garnet Beach

Sewing Kit, silk, venice lace, yo-yo's, hand embroidery....

This is my newest completed sewing kit

This is sold.

"Elderberry Wine" sewing clutch, published 2013...

"Elderberry Wine" sewing kit or clutch

 I still can't decide whether to call this a sewing clutch or kit. I made this crazy quilt style. It is quilted and embellished with YO-YO's, hand embroidery, laces, velvet ribbon, sewing notions and a vintage
silver and garnet jewelery piece. It was published in Art Quilting Studio winter 2013, artquiltingstudio.com.

roomy pocket, needle felted pin keep

opened all the way out