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Ravenhill
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As a stay-at-home mom I have time to dabble in numerous crafts: sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, embroidery, and felting. I love vintage textiles and notions.
Recent Posts
Growing up
Last weekend we celebrated my son's 9th bithday. How the heck did that happen? While the very first weeks and months after he was born time seemed to crawl by, as I suffered from massive fatigue with his constant nursing, gulping up, and general ...
I was lucky!
Look! I won another give away! I feel very lucky. Rachel was the hostess for this give away of these sweetly decorated bobby pins by Carmenesque. Thank you so very much, these are really pretty! She put them on right away. This weekend I put ...
Stitching and candlelight
The dark and cold evenings are such nice times to get together with friends to chat and do a few stitches of one sort or another. My clever friend was working on making these pretty embroidered and soon to be stuffed ornaments, pattern by Rosalie Qui...
Black and White Tuesday
These are my new mittens, knit in the same Berroco Ultra Alpaca yarn that I used for my husband's mittens, but in a pretty Gordoba Grape and Winter White. They are so warm and soft. My big regret now is not buying more of this yarn while I was a...
A gift sent
Kelly wrote me today to tell me she had received the gift I sent to her. I made her a flowery appliquéd face cloth for her. First I cut out two squares of fabric. On the blue checked fabric I hand appliquéd a scattering of fussy cut fabric flower...
Oooooh!
This is just what I needed after days of cloudy and chilly weather: a big dose of color and beautiful patterns!The generous and sweet designer, Bari, sent them to me herself - all these wonderful fat quarters for me to have fun with! ...
