Hey, the Etsy store is open again!

I've been meaning to reopen the Etsy store since the beginning of the month but something always interupted me, but today I decided this was going to happen. Only a few things are listed right now. I'll add more when I can squeeze in time. I need to get up my new frog pincushion pattern. That's it below. He's sitting on a ball of crochet cotton. I love frogs and toads. It fact I have a new toad pattern drawn out. Maybe next year it will get done.

I'm also determined to start working on the directions for the next pincushion pattern. It's for a rabbit. Ever since Jack retired I'm finding it hard to get more than 1/2 hour to an hour to work on my designs. I have so much sewing for myself to do, too. As always too many projects with not much getting finished.

Will be late with next stitch-a-long but there's news!

Above is a pic of my new pincushion pattern. He's Frederick the frog and he sits on an old crochet cotton ball I decorated. He's being sold at Dollmaker's Journey and Patternmart right now. I'll be putting him up at my Etsy store this week. That also means I'll finally be getting the store open again. 

The reason I'm behind in posting the directions for the next stitch-a-long is that my husband's BD was Aug 29, our anniversary was the next day, and now it's the holiday weekend. I'm stealing a little time to post this but have to get back to cooking.

BTW, I'm dividing the embroidery into 2 months. It's a project that keeps getting bigger so I decided it would be best to do that, especially at this time of year.

Way too busy - how about you?

The project I picked for June ended up being more than I planned so I'm dividing it into 2 months. The directions for this month are almost done. It's hard to finish with all the interuptions. I designed this one myself, no copyright free graphic.

Life just keeps on getting in the way. I'm finding I'm not getting on the computer but once a week for a quick look at mail. I missed an order at etsy because of this so I put the store on vaction until things get back to normal.

I'm working on gardens and cutting grass at 2 different places, house and dog sitting for friends when they go out of town, and helping my husband build a chicken coop. Then there's all the regular stuff that needs done like taking care of my dogs and cat, cleaning, laundry, cooking, and dishes. For 2 people we do have a lot of dishes.Sewing is piling up but in the evenings I'm working on the embroidery designs and new patterns. I just finished a frog pincushion. Just have to find time to write up the directions. Here's a pic of him.

Have you ever been to Ravelry?

I recently realized that I never uploaded my crochet lucky penny charm patterns to Ravelry so I just did it. This is a great site to find all kind of free and buy patterns for knitting and crochet. https://www.ravelry.com/

I was looking for patterns for infinity scarves for some yarns I had when it hit me I never added them to the site. Ever since craftsy changed and I no longer sell there it's made me rethink a lot about where I have my patterns.

I'm thinking about using my ebay name to de-stash all the craft stuff and mags I no longer want. I even have some vintage dolls someone left with me back in the 80's but never answered my calls to come and get them once they were cleaned up. I have the same problem with 2 mink bears I made for a customer from a gorgeous short jacket that was from the 40's or 50's. I hated to cut it up it was so nice but I did and made 2 large teddy bears with glass eyes. I called and left messages to her, too. I even sent cards to both of these customers thinking maybe they weren't getting the messages on their answering machines. Never heard back. Do you think I can consider them mine by now? I'm not a fan of really old dolls from the 50's and earlier like these old dolls are. Some of them kinda creep me out. Not as much as old porcelain ones, they make me shiver just thinking about those.

I'll post here when I finally start selling off my mags and supplies.

Still working on the new frog pattern. I wasn't happy with the legs and feet so re-designed them.

I'm also working on something free I'll be putting on the blog next month. I joined an embroidery facebook group but have found I'm not interested in most of the monthly stitch-a-longs so I've decided to start one here! Hope you'll come back and have a look.

New Elephant pincushion pattern up at Etsy

This is my new pincushion pattern. I still have to get it up here at blogger, at my tripod site, Patternmart, and at Dollmaker's Journey. It should be at these places by next week.

Pansy is made from felt and is cute enough to make without the pincushions. I used large mouth canning jars this time and I decorated them with stickers. I tell how to keep them stuck on the jars, too!

Finally updated crochet chatelaine pattern done and up!

I finally forced myself to sit and finish the directions for this chatelaine. There aren't many changes from the original done in size 10 thread. This one is in size 3 lizbeth. The pockets are much larger. In fact it took almost the entire ball to make both.I also added directions for a thimble holder like the wood needle case cover.

For a limited time (until April) I'm offering to send a replacment PDF of this pattern to anyone who bought it previously. Now I have to have proof of your purchase. I can check thru my records to find your order.

You can get the pattern at my Etsy store and at Patternmart. If you prefer ebay just message me (creativestitches) there.