Bless Our Home_11th frame

Design is from an EMS (Ellen Maurer-Stroh design), garden alphabet free design. I set the words “Bless Our Home” and added some butterflies, bees and lady bugs to the design, here and there. I enjoyed it when I was stitching (2005) and it is so pretty and colorful. I stitched “HOPE” (and made it into a bag), and two sets of “OPEN”, “CLOSED” (and made them into door hangers) for friends who have businesses/ stores. Special thanks to EMS design.

Purple Holly Hobbie Bag

I stitched a purple version of this Holly Hobbie and sent it to a quilter friend in Korea, to have it made into a bag. It's a very big size, 35X31 cm, and it looks like 3 bags in one. I haven't yet seen the finished bag in-person, as it was a special gift for my dearest friend, also in Korea. I hope she likes it. Special thanks Ttenzzand, best quilter I know. I used 898, 502, 209, 211, 700, 434, B5200, 208, 553, 604, 964, 754, 704, 726, 436, 3371, 433, 958, 210, 602, 3837, 3371, 801

15 side pincushions

I made some pincushions in different colours and shapes, such as blue, red and starfish shape. It was fun to make and a very lovely shape. I want to try to make them again someday. I just pick small designs (bird, rose…) from freebies here and there to fit in a little square. And I don’t remember where I picked them.

Emblem of Friendship

Blue, 2010

Designed by Louise Henderson of Cherished Stitched from 2006 Christmas Ornaments Issue. I stitched the Emblem of Friendship four times, all in different colours, and I made them into door hangers.

They look pretty. I love them all.

Purple, 2009

Blue, 2008

Red, 2008

My Collections 4

Ornaments Collection

I made so many ornaments so far. I hung them on door knobs everywhere in my home, which looked a little messy.I wanted to put them all together nicely.

I tried putting them on my curtain, which looks okay to me, but my son said it looks messy.Well, I don’t know what else I can do. I’ll just leave it for awhile.

My Collections 2

More collections of Peacock pincushions, Bookmarks and Key chains.

Peacock collection, 2007

Bookmarks or Scissors fob, 2007 Designs are from web freebies



Key chains, 2007 and 2009 Designs are from web freebie.

My Collections 1

I stitched lots of small patterns in the past couple of years. Most of them are from web freebies here and there.I enjoy stitching small patterns to make pincushions, fobs, biscornus, key chains, etc. Lots of these have already been given away.
Biscornu Collection, 2007

Cats Pincushion, 2007

Designs are from web freebie

Scissors Fob, 2008

Christmas shortbread cookies

This recipe is from an old paper.
1 cup icing sugar1 cup cornstarch3 cups all-purpose flour2 cups of butter at room temperatureRed and green place cherries
Sift dry ingredients. Cut in butter, then knead until mixture holds together. Shape dough into a small 1-inch balls, place 11/2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Flatten with lightly floured fork. Decorate with cherries and bake at 325F for 15 to 20 minutes or until edges are lightly brown. Cool on rack. Makes about 6 dozen.

Four More scarves and Wrist Warmer

More scarves I made last week.

I'm knitting more scarves

I've been busy knitting and knitting for the past three weeks. So far I've made 13 scarves:

Knitting Scarves

My friend, who is also a member from my church choir, used to own a store that sold wool and DMC flosses, and just recently she gave me some craft supplies that she now longer had use for. I was given many yarns of wool for knitting and approximately 1,500 DMC flosses. I started knitting last week and so far, I've knitted six scarves and one hat. I knitted a blue scarf for my daughter, a dark blue scarf and hat for my son, and a pink scarf for my friend. I am planning to knit another scarf for my friend soon.

Canadian Rocky Mountains

In September, 2009 I went to the Canadian Rocky Mountains with my brother, sister and her husband. It was my fourth time seeing the Rockies, but it was the first time for my siblings. The weather was nice.We travelled in a tour group with a guide who was so intelligent and knowledgeable of the Rockies. He was a very experienced guide who knew a lot about everything, including all genres of music. He played his music cds on the bus and we enjoyed listening to them.The trip was fabulous but too short.

Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park

Peyto Lake, Banff National Park

Key Chains

I made these little key chains for friends as small gifts. I stitched the face, adapted from a freebie, and used felt for the body. I made 19 key chains in May and 15 more in July, for a total of 34.

Canadian East Coast Trip

Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick

In the beginning of September I went on a Canadian East Coast trip: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with my son, and my sister and her husband who came from Seoul, Korea for their vacation. We drove over 5,000 Km total, in 8 days/ 7 nights. We went to Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick near Fundy Provincial Park, which is amazing; and Cape Breton in Nova Scotia is such a beautiful land. Prince Edward Island is such a peaceful Island. It was a long drive, but worth the visit.

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

EMS Garden Alphabets Freebie

"Bless Our Home" What a lovely designs.

I have stitched a few different words using this alhabet.

I add some butterflies, bees and ladybugs.

"HOPE" in Nov/2004, "Bless Our Home" in Jan/2005, two sets of "Open" & "Closed" and "Bath"

I stitched two sets of open & closed signs for friends for their business stores. One set was stitched on 14 count aida with backstitch on each letter.(Sep/2005) A second set was done on 18 count aida without backstitch. Personally, I like it without backstitch.(Mar/2008)

The last one I stitched was a "Bath" sign for the bathroom. I made three of these in Mar/2008.