Crafts

 Dot mandalas

Paper snowflakes

Quilling

New hobby: quilling. I took a class April 24, 2025.

Sashiko

 Sashiki - This was a preprinted design that I did in both variegated and plain blue.

This bag is a "rice bag". I did three small panels of Sashiko and decided to incorporate them into this bag. The "rice bag" is something originating in Japan that the people used to take offerings to their temples. The bags were made of scrapes of fabric. 

baskets

 Three new baskets finished in October - top one was made from a painted gourd that I bought, middle one has seeds implanted in a plastic/acrylic base, and bottom one was made with walnut shell slices.

 Picture taken from front window. This black bear was scared away with a whistle but another one appeared two days later and was also scared of the whistle. The next morning I found the bird feeder gone and the pole it was on bent at a 45 degree angle. Bear retaliation???

                                       Needle felted with class with Mattie and made into a carrier for my pad.

Table runner - sewn with the help of rulers and then colored with ink tense pencils textile medium to blend colors.

Tatted Christmas ornaments

 

Dorset button hair pins

 

More pine needle baskets

 

Being creative

 Finished this pine needle basket. It is larger than the other ones I have done (9 ' x 10"). I got the base from Etsy and love the flower and seeds. 

Also I have been doing baking. The top one is Chocolate Babka - a heavy swirled bread that has a ganache inside. the bottom one is a Chocolate Yule log. I made a cream cheese filling and ganache for the top. Both are YUMMY!

Decorated for the holidays, haven't done it for a few years, so this year  decided to go for it!

 

 I have been doing some macrame. This is a curtain/valance I made for my neighbor. Am making a larger one for a different window for her and will post it when it is finished.

Rainbow Vicki

 Just released on Amazon. This is a cozy witch mystery.

Baskets

 Baskets made from strips of fabric (left over from quilting), rope, and twine with embellishments of beads and lichen.

New quilts finished

Table runner title: Ice Fishing

Small quilt title: Circles in the Sand

Both of these quilts are made with ruler work and "quilt as you go" method.

The pattern is sewn and then parts are cut away - sometimes called "reverse applique". 

 

 Published January 28, 2022. Daughter of Suin K'Lor. Available of Amazon Kindle and paperback.

"Forced to leave her home, at the young age of 15, Jajuna finds a couple of allies in the form of a dwarf and an elf. When the trio flees one town, and have to traverse a cavern system, she finds her destiny in the unlikely form of a newly hatched queen dragon."

macrame

 Who knew macrame would come back. Here's a wall hanging that I just finished. It is about 14 inches across and 20 inches long.

Cats

 

Someone comes slinking

Into the night darkened room

Shadows of the cats

Treasures

 Done with rulers and cut out sections. Pattern from SewSteady called Opal Passions. This quilt I named Treasures. It received a blue ribbon at the county fair this year.

                     Self published the sequel to my first book. Now available on Amazon

Acrylic pour - redone

 This is my 3rd pour - I repoured over the first one because it turned out not so good. I really like this one.