a few pin cushions with a pocket for scissors.......
a couple of needle books.........
and last but not least a few yards of scappy trim to add on to your projects of any kind..........
so there you have it on this rainy tuesday morning here in Oklahoma..................
Wishing all of you Mother's a wonderful and memorable Mother's Day weekend..........
( my sweet kids sent this beautiful Bouquet )
Here she is.........how bout a Patriotic fabric house with all kinds of stitches, ribbons, buttons, fabrics, ric rac, trim of all kinds, bits and pieces of quilts, a little shrink plastic and a few little extras like the firecrackers for the chimney.......this will definitely be an all day class with a light lunch and snacks. I have 2 dates right now and just seeing which one will work...the Dates will either be friday June 11 or tuesday June 15.....if you are interested please email me at jpeter@cox.net and let me know.......remember seats are limited.........thank you.
I now have a small little village of these little houses......Christmas, Cowgirl , Sweet one we made in one of Charlotte Lyons classes a few years back and now this Patriotic one.....and maybe in the fall we will combine Halloween and Thanksgiving together....... we will see! Anyway I hope this little house will be fun to stitch and construct.....this is for someone who likes to do hand stitching because it is all stitching without a machine......
Happy Mother's Day weekend to all of you Moms out there...............
This past summer I took the French General Summer Stitching class and one of the pages we stitched had some English Paper Piecing.........something new to me but had fun doing them but put them away until a couple months ago when I ordered this new book and thought I needed to learn more and do more of this old time stitching.....thought it was a good time to bring out some of my newest Tilda fabric and make a few......don't have a clue on how they will be used but it was fun. I need to do more and different shapes....
This time of year once again enjoying these beauties....
I only have a few sneak peeks of 1 class to be taught in June......haven't finished the sample but hopefully in the next couple days I will have it finished and give you the date......
Sorry I only have one class on the horizon but I just finished getting all of my stuff for the Terri Brush retreat shipped off yesterday and it has taken me 2 full weeks of non stop......now that I have it done I can concentrate a little more now on summer classes.....but this first one is going to be RED*WHITE*BLUE themed......and stitching............
Been a crazy busy week but looking forward to this Mother's Day weekend.......have a great Thursday!
today it was time to get the pink car dusted off with the winter dust and ready for hopefully some nice cool spring days ahead to take it for a spin............I forget how fun this car really is ...........it's definitely girly pink and I love it! After this was taken though Tom yelled at me and he was pinned between the two cars and his motorcycle.........the pink car got a big ole scratch and dent on the side....... sure glad it wasn't me who did the damage.....but it scared me to death because have you ever tried to pick up a huge motorcycle.........I know both of us will be sore in the morning and thank goodness Tom's leg wasn't crushed!!! It could of been much worse than a scratch....
On another note I love it when someone sends me a photo of what they have done with one of my punch needle patterns........this gal has 4 grand daughters and making them each one for Christmas.....
I have been really super busy getting ready for The Terri Brush retreat I will be teaching at in Seattle at the end of the month.......I am sending all my stuff in boxes and shipping them ahead of time ..... trying to remember everything ahead is crazy and hopefully with all of my LISTS I won't forget anything......I would share photos but I will wait until after the retreat so stop back .......
Hope you all are enjoying the weekend..........I am also going to try to post some classes coming up this summer whenever I get everything done and sent off this next week...... Hang in there with me and we will get back to regular scheduled classes.....
I love this and remind myself all the time.......so much going on right now and I have several lists going to keep my brain from exploding and loosing sleep ...........
Hope you all had a great weekend and looking forward to a week full of sunshine and creative work........
I just received a few more photos of the finished Mother's Day class..
I always feel good after a class and they go home to finish the project........Hopefully that means they enjoyed what they made and are proud of it.....
even pages added........love it and so glad they will continue to add to their journal.........thanks again girls.....as they continue to send photos I will try to post them as we go along.....
Happy Monday.......
Even though these girls worked really hard on their class project they had to take them home unfinished and hopefully they will finish them .........since I did not take any class photos I do have a couple of them while they are stitching away......
They really didn't want to show you their unfinished project but just wanted you to see what was going on tuesday night in class.....I hope more photos will come in later and I will share those!
have a great saturday...............
Look at these beautiful yellow " Peony Tulips"......I never knew there was such a thing until this week,,,,,I know Tulips and Peonies but did not know you can have both in one ! Learned something new ............
Just thought I would send these your way on the beginning of hopefully a great weekend.......stay safe!
Happy Friday.........
A couple months ago this sweet friend Terri Brush asked me if I would like to teach a class at one of her Terri Brush retreats..... and of course I said yes. This is one of the sweetest most talented teachers in our creative circle of artists friends. I feel honored and privileged to even be asked. I am so excited to finally see her unbelievable studio/classroom in Chehalis Washington but to teach in these surroundings......last week and this week Terri is in Newton Kansas at the Whatever House doing retreats back to back and yesterday my dear friend Nan and I drove up for the day to see Terri and show her a couple samples of the class project I will be teaching......I needed her blessing and approval........
The gals attending the retreat were really having fun creating little metal books, dyeing fabrics, soldering crowns, making stuffed bunnies and just creating wonderful Terri Brush and Julie Collings projects.......speaking of Julie Collings.......I finally got to meet her in person yesterday......another sweet talented artist. If you don't know Julie she is the Queen of anything colorful that has been dyed to perfection.........she has it mastered and I am so sorry I did not get photos of all the wonderful projects Terri and Julie were teaching but you can go on their Instagram and just drool all you want......
My dear friend and partner in crime Nan Nix.....we had the best time to just finally get away for the day .......Starbucks and donuts was the first stop.... stopped at a couple quilt store along the way and the famous Mrs. O'leary's in Wichita........in fact Joni from Mrs.O'leary's taught the girls last week and this week how to make small and large metal books. ( if you go on Terri or Julie's IG they have photos)
Well that is my news and excited for this Terri Brush retreat......
I apologize to my students tuesday night that I did not get any photos but I will try to see if they can send me their books and you can at least see what they all did. Brenda and Olivia I hope you are enjoying making yours together at home, we missed you in class...... I guess you can say I am a little rusty in the classroom if I forgot to take photos......hopefully in the future no forgetting the class photo......
This week has gone by so fast and it's been so stinking cold here in Oklahoma in April.....what happened to those warm spring days....please show up soon! Happy Thursday!
Random shots of class prep and what I have on my worktable right now.....it seems like once the spring got here a lot is going on and I am so ready to get going once again!
Thursday I will have a little news to tell you.........so until then have a great day and do something creative today!!!!