Hello everyone!

I’ve had a busy time over here – getting out Issue #1 of my newsletter, shopping for birthday gifts for friends and family over the weekend (now I’ve got to box them up to take to the post office tomorrow) and yesterday I made cupcakes for Josh to take to work with him (Carrot Cake Cupcakes from Ina’s “The Barefoot Contessa Parties!”)

All this time I’ve been working on a secret embroidery project. I’ve been so excited to share it with you, but I’ve been waiting until I had them all finished. So, without further ado, here is my latest project: hand embroidered bookmarks!

Ginger Kitten,

Cinnamon Kitten,

Sugar Kitten,

Pepper Kitten,

& Nutmeg Kitten.

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I’ve just finished a *huge shop update* – you can check them out in more detail there.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a terrific day!

Best, Jenn : )

Jenn : )

Have a good day -

Jenn : )

We got snow yesterday! Everything is white outside – so pretty. It’s funny that I get so excited about it. I grew up in New York, so I’ve seen plenty of snow in my lifetime – but it is so rare here in Seattle that now I get all excited, esp. when it stays around for awhile.

I have this great reproduction fabric that I’m making my kitten pincushion/sewing book sets with – today I’ll be embroidering the sewing books and hopefully will get the final set photographed so that I can get them in the shop Friday am.

I haven’t begun my plush kitten/bag project yet. Doesn’t it always happen that you set aside some time to work on a project and something else rushes in to take over? Not that I’m complaining – I had a custom order to do this week and some unexpected work to do for consignment. Busy , busy!

Here is a beautiful little quilt that I bought on Etsy, from a fantastic Australian artist – her Etsy shop name is tummyache and I love her work:

One of these days I will get it framed and then hang it in my studio.

Now it’s off to work for me!

: ) Jenn

Hello everyone!

Thanks for the great comments you’ve left for me – I love to read your thoughts and ideas – they’re wonderful motivation for me to keep up with my sewing and sketching : )

Sorry for this fuzzy photo – our sunshine here is sporadic and it seems to be either blinding or grey outside. This is a picture of my sketch for the hedgehog sewing book/pincushion set and one of the adorable little buttons I’ve found to go on the book. I’m not sure why the button has a hedgehog AND an apple on it – but by total coincidence I had a Japanese fabric that has hedgehogs and little apples on it – how did that happen?

So it looks like hedgehogs and butterflies will be the next sets that I finish up (and then kittens and finally Scotty dogs and dragonflies).

I couldn’t resist getting a photo of the fabric and ribbon I have for my first plush animal and bag.
This is what I’ve gathered for the Little Kitten plush & bag. I’m going to use the fuzzy orange/brown fabric on the far left for the kitten. The corduroy on the right will be part of the bag and the two middle fabrics will be part of the outside of the bag and then the lining.

I plan on making some prototypes of the kitten and bag out of muslin – so that everything is the way I want it before I cut into these gorgeous fabrics. I’ll post some of my attempts so you can see how they’re coming along : )

Now I’ve got to make dinner and then get back to my sewing while I watch Top Chef on Bravo!

Nite all!