BOO!

This is a pillow that I stitched last year. Yesterday, I put out my Halloween decorations and I added this to the ever changing chair. PFOS did a fabulous job on this one. I don't know if you can see it but the gold sparkly pom poms are three dimensional and very glitzy.

The trim around the outside looks like black spider webs. Too cool.

The back is a wonderful mix of black and orange ghosts, pumpkins, witchy hats, etc.

Isn't it boolicious?!

Tooth Fairy Pillow Was A Big Hit

The baby shower for my nephew's wife was yesterday. It was a wonderful event and she got some really cute (and tiny) things for the wee one. I wish you all could have been there when she opened the gift from us. The look on her face when she saw the tooth fairy pillow was fabulous. It made all my frantic stitching feel like it was worth while. I've been promising you pictures as soon as the shower was over - so here they are. The first picture is a close up of the tooth fairy pocket. The image doesn't do it justice - but the trim around the pocket and the pillow has these wonderful little tufts of metallic and pink and blue threads. It makes it look almost shabby chic.

This is a close up of the ice cream cone and some of the bigger dots. Again, just to give you a feel for some of the stitches and threads.

This is the back of the pillow. The finishers at PFOS were sweet enough to put my initials and the year on that adorable blue and mint green leopard print.

And here is the front of the pillow. Again, the picture doesn't do it justice. It is a wonderful mix of mint green, pale blue and pink. I am very pleased with the finished product.
Hope you enjoyed getting a chance to finally see it. Thanks for all your support while I was frantically stitching this. I feel like it was a true team effort.

Now I need to get busy working on the second tooth fairy pillow for our other nephew and his wife. That baby is due in March, but I need to have the pillow back from the finishers by mid January.

DONE!

I am surprised you didn't hear the loud WOOHOOOOOO at 11:30 on Friday night when I took the very last stitch. The last little bit seemed to take longer than the rest of the canvas. Anyway - it is finished, mailed and speeding it's way to PFOS's front door.

As far as pictures go - I did take them and will post them at some point. I need to make sure that no family members are reading the blog - rumor has it that a few of them do. I really don't want to spoil the surprise. I promise I will post the pictures after the mother-to-be has seen the pillow.

Now I need to decide on my next stitching project. HMMMMMM. What will it be?

VIOLA!

The crab canvas from Viola is finished!! Woo and Hoo! The top border seemed to take FORever. I finished it this afternoon and will send it off to PFOS for finishing soon. I hope they do something spectacular and over the top with this one.

Since it was a rainy, cool day here in Ortville, I kept right on stitching. I started the tooth fairy pillow that I showed you in the last post. I forgot to take pictures of my progress. Sorry. I'll post pics later this week. The two scoops of ice cream are stitched and I have started on the cone. So far it is a quick stitch, which is a good thing. I need to have this puppy stitched and to the finishers ASAP. I am co-hosting a baby shower for the mother-to-be (my niece) in early October and the pillow HAS to be ready to present to her at the shower.

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. We went to visit friends at their river house yesterday. In addition to a day of sailing, sunning and visiting, we had a picnic. I contributed 2 dishes from my favorite television chef - The Barefoot Contessa. The first one was her sagaponack corn pudding. This is one of my go to dishes and it hasn't failed me yet. The second dish was her zucchini gratin. I had never tried it before but boy am I glad I did. Oh my! It was fabulous. You should give it try if you are like me and have an abundance of zucchini.

Dragonfly is back from finishing

You might remember an earlier post about a dragonfly canvas that I finished at the end of 2008. I sent it off to PFOS for finishing in late January/early February. It arrived back on my doorstep about a week ago. Isn't she lovely??!! I gave them complete freedom on this pillow. They always turn out so much better than I can imagine, so I just let them do what they want. I've never been disappointed.

The canvas itself is very glitzy so it makes perfect sense that they would not make the finishing glitzy. The fabric is a wonderful lineny/burlapy/silk like material. It has slubs of thread throughout and looks very organic. The trim matches perfectly. I don't know if the finisher made the trim herself or if it was purchased, but it is perfect. Here is a close up of the mitered corner and the trim.

Here is a picture of the back of the pillow. I hope you like the pillow as much as I do. I am THRILLED!! Thanks PFOS for another great finish.

Finished Object!!

I did the happy dance over this canvas between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Officially it can't be counted in the SFS 2009 countdown, but I thought you might like to see it. The canvas is by Needle Crossings and was great fun to stitch. I pulled out all the stops on this one and did it all in Fyre Werks, Neon Rays + (plus) and Krienik. It is overloaded with glitz but I just love it. I think I will send it to PFOS and ask them to make it into pillow for the ever changing chair. Their pillow finisher is just amazing. I've given her (?) total freedom on most of my pillows and she has never failed me. I always ask for the most fun and funky options. I would never consider using some of her color combinations and trim choices on my own, but they always turn out perfectly. I will be showing you more of her magic in future posts.

Okay, I've gotten carried away and added THREE new posts tonight. Don't get used to it! I doubt it will ever happen again. I just didn't want you to get bored and think I only worked on Santas and Christmas items. :-)

Happy stitching everyone.