Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

chocake2 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:45:22 GMT

I made this for my Mother since she was forever Robbing Peter to Pay Paul. She never could make the ends meet without the rope fraying in the middle, but she sure tried! This was her Christmas gift the year before she died. So far as I know, the nursing home still uses it on residents.

Bee-utiful Flowers

chocake2 — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:23:50 GMT

This is "Bee-utiful Flowers. I'm ashamed this took me so long... It started out to be a wall-hanging, but I decided to make it into a pillow cover instead.

I printed words on cloth to make the center of the flowers. They read "Forgiving" "Couragious" "Generous" "Productive" and "Cheerful." I quilted the words " Peaceful" "Creative" "Content" and "...'Lieve" into the borders and the word "Just..." in the sky.

I had originally planned to make beads to embellish it with, but, Gosh, that was gonna take an awful lot of time, not to mention glass... so then I thought i'd just embroider it. THEN I saw the cute buttons in the store, and. being the lazy cuss that I am, I took the easiest way out! LOL If you were to copy my design, you'd probably come up with a jillion other ways to add bees to your flowers!

While I was sitting in the sunshine, stitching the last of the buttons on, a friendly little huney bee can buzzing by and landed not far from my feet. I wonder what the little guy was doing out this time of the year? It's getting pretty chilly for bugs...

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