I know nowadays we are all so busy and finding time to sew on our MACHINES is hard enough BUT...a few new patterns that sprung up at Spring Market caught my eye and they are so irresistable I just had to try them...Meg Hawkey of Crabapple Hill Studio (from somewhere in Washington State where it DOESN'T rain) is reknown not only for her beautiful hand stitchery designs but also her incredible booths at Market! When you step into her world, you leave the real one behind and I often marvel at her ability to translate me into her world so easily...Her recent Fall patterns are so adorable I had to share them with you and to show you my first efforts at recreating her ideas using my own handiwork...I simply could not wait to start this pillowcase...un
daunted by never having done redwork by hand before, no light table - not even the fancy pen you are supposed to use - I wanted to start this right away - of course, it was sold out of the distribution houses I buy from and I had to wait an extra WEEK to get it - here are my first efforts...you can see I do not even have a normal embroidery hoop - I used one of my machine embroidery hoops - and it works great! While my hand work isn't perfect - I love the way this is coming along...Another of her patterns has me doing something I have NEVER done before as well - working with beads and making
jewelry...Quilters, myself included, LOVE jewelry specific and personalized to our beloved hobby...so when I saw these button bracelets - I went nutz! Meg's designs are shown here - she of course hand stitched her buttons and filled in the 'betweener' spaces with beautiful beads...The first thing I did was visit our local beads store - Beadlemania - and got some tips on how to bead (and of course a supply of stuff I had never seen or heard of before...NO NEW HOBBIES - I swore and here I was buying up a storm!)...I already had some embroidered buttons (machine embroidered - yeah!) to use on my bracelet - I fussy cut some nautical fabrics and covered some smaller buttons using Dritz' easy button covers and wallah! I have a Nautical Look bracelet. Making the beads required 
a short learning curve but YouTube has some great online tutorials and I just Googled them and learned quickly online...already made a second bracelet - with an African theme and am already working on a Halloween one! It is easier than I thought and I love the results...Look for me to demo these at the Jacksonville Show in September 2011! Patterns, threads and kits are available on my website - www.popsbindings.com
jewelry...Quilters, myself included, LOVE jewelry specific and personalized to our beloved hobby...so when I saw these button bracelets - I went nutz! Meg's designs are shown here - she of course hand stitched her buttons and filled in the 'betweener' spaces with beautiful beads...The first thing I did was visit our local beads store - Beadlemania - and got some tips on how to bead (and of course a supply of stuff I had never seen or heard of before...NO NEW HOBBIES - I swore and here I was buying up a storm!)...I already had some embroidered buttons (machine embroidered - yeah!) to use on my bracelet - I fussy cut some nautical fabrics and covered some smaller buttons using Dritz' easy button covers and wallah! I have a Nautical Look bracelet. Making the beads required 
a short learning curve but YouTube has some great online tutorials and I just Googled them and learned quickly online...already made a second bracelet - with an African theme and am already working on a Halloween one! It is easier than I thought and I love the results...Look for me to demo these at the Jacksonville Show in September 2011! Patterns, threads and kits are available on my website - www.popsbindings.com
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