Valentines Day Will Be Here Before We Know It!!

Getting a few heart swags made for my Etsy Shop.

I had some left over pieces from a cutter quilt that I had made some wreath's out of and a few other items. I was thinking of how I could use them and that's when I came up with the idea of making heart swags for Valentines Day. So I gathered them up along with some other supplies and started making them. What fun it was to design them and then put them together. I embellished all six of them with vintage buttons. I LOVE vintage buttons! Here I am getting started...

I ended up making three of the three heart swags and three of the seven heart swags. I mentioned that I was getting low on my cutter quilt scraps to a friend of mine and she offered me a few of her's. That was so kind of her, now I can maybe squeeze out another seven heart swag.

These six swags are now in my Etsy Shop. If you would like to check them out here is the link fabraholic4.etsy.com.

I have a couple of other ideas going around in my head that I would like to get made up for this year. Guess I better get busy and get them started and made. Valentines Day will be here very soon. I will post them as soon as I get them done.

My cross stitching has suffered a bit while making these swags, I did get one valentine chart done, now I have to figure out how to finish it. I'm thinking about just putting it in a frame because it turned out too large for a bowl pillow. I am getting a lot of idea's from flosstuber, mamalovesyouGBMichelle. She shares a lot of free charts offered by different designers.  If you need a positive pick-me-up check out Anna of Stitch Roadies. I love to watch her video's in the morning after my scripture reading. She is so nice and very positive. A wonderful way to start the day. 

Looking forward to tomorrow, my daughter is coming over and we are going to make Valentine Cards. We haven't done this since she was a little girl.We might even bake some heart shaped sugar cookies!

Take care everyone!

Blessings to you all.

 The New Year Has Begun!

Here we are already in the second day of the new year! This last year was a really hard one for everybody the world over. Now is the time to gather up our strength and look towards a better year ahead for all of us. We, as a nation need to put our trust back in God and hold tight to our faith in his son Jesus who can and will make all things new again, we need only to believe.

One of my goals for this year is to finish up some UFO's both in quilting and in cross stitch. Along with that I will also be starting my granddaughters HS graduation quilt. I have all of the fabrics for the front and should get started cutting it out in the next couple of weeks. I will have to get all of the Christmas decorations down, packed and back up to the barn first.

Another goal is, I want to try my hand at stitching on linen. Up to this point I have only stitched on Aida cloth. Sure hope I will be able to see well enough to do it. I love the look that linen gives to cross stitching. I will start out on something small and then hopefully graduate to doing my first sampler. There are so many wonderful ones out there, having a hard time deciding which one to do. Does anybody have a suggestion for me?

Sorry no pictures this time, I am having trouble with the camera on my phone. Actually this has me thinking about getting my digital camera out and start using it again. My brother left me a really nice, fancy, digital camera that I would like to be able to take a class on how to use it this spring. 

Hope you all have some goals you would like to get accomplished this year too. Goals, to me, sounds so much better than resolutions.

Continue to take care and stay safe!

Happy New Year Everyone and Happy Stitching!!

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