2021 Projects

[Willow Flats]

This is beautiful! I am a big fan of embroidery. My mother taught me to do it at an early age and I've loved it ever since.
Thank you for sharing your work!

 

[Marsha Cassada]

This is beautiful! I am a big fan of embroidery. My mother taught me to do it at an early age and I've loved it ever since.
Thank you for sharing your work!

Show some of yours, please.

 

[Willow Flats]

I don't have a single thing to show! I have given everything I've embroidered as gifts over the years.

I used to do pottery and the same thing. I have only one small pot left. My instructor suggested taking pictures of all your work and now I am kicking myself for not doing that.

 

[chandab]

Very cute, Marsha, love your little quilt.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

My cousin painted this sea horse watercolor. He signed it right on the edge so I couldn't do a mat. I had a plain cream-color frame made and embellished it a little with paint, then mounted the painting on batik. I think it turned out nicely.

 

[Cayuse]

Perfect batik print for the painting! It's beautiful.

 

[Silver City Heritage Farmstead]

It's July, and time to start planning and preparing for the rest of the year.

Now that it's just myself and the animals, I'll be spending more time on *me* things. I've discovered that I like handcrafts, particularly wreaths are easy for me. I don't care much for the deco mesh type for myself. I'm more into organic materials.

I've a few things stashed away. As I get moved into the house, and get the second bedroom set up as my guest room and work area combo, I hope to be able to share my work here, too.

Marsha, I LOVE the colors and embroidery in that pretty little Bonnets quilt!! Maybe one day, I'll learn to sew too. That's pretty far down my list for the moment though.

One last thing....I need ideas. I'd like to take a bunch of stuff to Benson Mule Days in September. I'm thinking of some wood burned mule motif stuff. Wreaths. Any other ideas?

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Some may remember the flower quilt top I showed last year. A group of older ladies were to handquilt it. They got held up over a year by covid. They called me several weeks ago and said they finished it! It was minimal quilting--just around the larger design--so I have been busy adding more quilting to it. I used the flower fabrics to do the prairie point border. Had to wash it, as I just didn't feel good about leaving it unwashed.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

It's July, and time to start planning and preparing for the rest of the year.

Now that it's just myself and the animals, I'll be spending more time on *me* things. I've discovered that I like handcrafts, particularly wreaths are easy for me. I don't care much for the deco mesh type for myself. I'm more into organic materials.

I've a few things stashed away. As I get moved into the house, and get the second bedroom set up as my guest room and work area combo, I hope to be able to share my work here, too.

One last thing....I need ideas. I'd like to take a bunch of stuff to Benson Mule Days in September. I'm thinking of some wood burned mule motif stuff. Wreaths. Any other ideas?

I think the pyrography mule motifs would be super. Wreaths are always popular. Maybe you could stencil some mules on muslin to use as neckerchiefs.

 

[Silver City Heritage Farmstead]

Thank you for the suggestions Marsha.

My biggest challenges right now are getting motivated and organized. I've let a LOT of just basic work get waaaaay behind on my place the last 2 years. Thankfully, God is answering my prayers, and it's more painful NOT to move around, than it is to move around and do things slowly.

 

[Kelly]

Nancy, my mother in law, made hubby the most beautiful airplane quilt.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Wow! The border is so complimentary, too. Is he in aviation? (Mine is retired ATC)

 

[Kelly]

He sure is, he is a captain on the 737. He also has a private plane and is thinking about getting second one . His dad is a retired cooperate pilot and his mom a private pilot, so it runs in the family. Me?… I’m a retired flight attendant, that’s how we meet

 

[minihorse]

@Kelly what type of private plane does he have. And you sound like a high flying family. Fun!

 

[Kelly]

A high flying family, Haha! ♥♥ I love it!

He has a Stinson…



And we are partners in a 310…


Anyone else a “high flying family”?

 

[betwys1]

lost my medical 3 yrs ago, after 50 yrs of flying

 

[minihorse]

I love your planes and the two of you are not bad looking either.
I got up to doing cross countries in a Cessna 152 many years ago. But I was learning to fly at a little airport that was in the TCA of Stapleton. That's fine unless you are out and the TCA drops and you cannot get back to airport on visual.

The most recent thing I did was to make curtains for a Cessna 410.

 

[Kelly]

Thanks!!

Beautiful plane Angie!! And beautiful curtains!! They match perfectly

 

[Marsha Cassada]

I've been playing with rattlesnake skin and buttons. I made one covered button, and then tried the skin on wood. I like the wood better. Talking to the guys who hunt snakes and make things with the skins has been interesting. This is a Western Diamondback "coon tail". It's called a coon tail because the stripes on the tail look like the tail of a raccoon.

 

[Kelly]

Those are so cool!! If you need more rattlesnakes, come on down to TX!! We have “Rattlesnake Round Ups” down here