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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
6740 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 16 2011 : 10:06:47 AM
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Carla...I do embroidery and I think what you named your style of embroidery "String Art" is most
appropriate because you have indeed created a more complex art form out of it. Your work is
just beautiful and I can tell that you have put a lot of creative thinking into it. What you
are doing is much more like Crewel work than embroidery (at least that is my think so) but I
like your term of "String Art" for it the best!! I am also a Knitter but I do things with yarn
combinations that most people don't do...so I call myself a Yarn Artist. So, no matter what you
call your art form...you are definitely an ARTIST. If you called yourself a floss artist...some
might think you were a dentist. lol I am going to call you a String Artist...it describes your
work perfectly. Lucky Aunt!!! Who gets that beautiful piece of work!
Blessings,
~peggy 
Farmgirl #1326
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com
http://pegsmiles7.wordpress.com
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RedHoopWoman
True Blue Farmgirl
513 Posts
Kathryn
Yoder
Colorado
USA
513 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2011 : 11:12:22 AM
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Carla,your embroidery is really lovely!
"Today's Mighty Oak is just Yesterday's Nut" |
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SantaTeresita
True Blue Farmgirl
474 Posts
Teresita
Sacramento
CA
USA
474 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2011 : 11:14:26 AM
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I've been working on Fashion Flair Chemo Caps for Cancer Patients undergoing chemotherapy. Here's a look at some of my newest ones that I have completed this month for my March delivery to the Cancer Center in my local community.....
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Are there other Farmgirl Sisters here who also make Chemo Caps? I'd love to be friends with you!
"Find your own Calcutta!" Mother Teresa
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karla
True Blue Farmgirl
1308 Posts
karla
Pella
Iowa
USA
1308 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2011 : 11:51:18 AM
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Love the hats!! I made my new grand baby some burp cloths with a pink heart on them!
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
http://rua2j-grammysheirlooms.blogspot.com/ |
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kittykill
True Blue Farmgirl
608 Posts
Pam
Portland
or
USA
608 Posts |
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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
6740 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2011 : 5:32:42 PM
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Teresita...The hats are awesome!!!! Much better than the ones I made for cancer patients.
But mine were well used and loved...the flowers just add that extra flair. Will
brighten many hearts I am sure!
Hugs and Smiles,
Peggy
Farmgirl #1326
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com
http://pegsmiles7.wordpress.com
"I'm only as strong as the caffeine I drink, the hair-spray I use and the Girlfriends that I have." |
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J.F. Brown
True Blue Farmgirl
130 Posts
Jamie
Beaverton
OR
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2011 : 8:41:26 PM
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I am working on a space to create.
My youngest is away at school, actually a semester abroad, which she plans to extend into the summer, and hopes to extend to another semester. While she is away, I am hijacking her room, and it's almost ready.I added bookcases for papercrafts, storage for fabrics, and my sewing machine.Here's hoping to actually start making something this weekend! |
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textilelover
True Blue Farmgirl
557 Posts
Dianne
Middletown
NY
USA
557 Posts |
Posted - Feb 17 2011 : 04:13:59 AM
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Carla, Your embroidery is worthy of the name "string art". It is exquisite. Teresita, I also love your hats! And JF Brown, I have a funny story...when my oldest went to college in FL (we live in NY), she wasn't gone a week before I turned her old bedroom into a sewing room. With 4 kids in a Cape Cod house, space is at a premium here and, since she moved into an apartment and took most everything with her to school, I thought...why not?! Dianne in the Hudson Valley
Sister #749
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." --Leondardo da Vinci |
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phonelady
True Blue Farmgirl
323 Posts
Carla
Loveland
Colorado
323 Posts |
Posted - Feb 17 2011 : 07:13:01 AM
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Hi Peggy,
Thanks for the info. I'll have to look up Crewel.
Yea, I sure hope my Aunt likes it. But the best thing has been how much I've learned doing it! And since I do this during meetings and while waiting in the doctor's office I get to talk to lots of people who come up and share their experiences with their art. Cool huh!
Those hat are great Teresita! Love the colors!
Smiles!
Carla
It's not just life-
It's an adventure!
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henlady35904
True Blue Farmgirl
295 Posts
Kim
Gadsden
Alabama
USA
295 Posts |
Posted - Feb 17 2011 : 6:48:15 PM
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| Ok, today I cleaned the chicken pens, picked a friend the last of the turnips, hand watered all my new fig and apple trees and blueberry bushes. Then I went to a friends and helped prune their fruit trees. Made supper, and now ready to crash...lots to do tomorrow! |
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sunflowercritters
True Blue Farmgirl
1102 Posts
Debra
Springfield
Maine
USA
1102 Posts |
Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 06:51:41 AM
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Today I made a drop spindle and working on Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt. Well be making potholders, and hot mats out of them as well. These are so much fun to make.
farmgirl sister Deb .JPG)
I Thessalonians 5:16,17
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
http://sunflowercritters.blogspot.com/ |
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kittykill
True Blue Farmgirl
608 Posts
Pam
Portland
or
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 7:16:24 PM
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I have been obsessed with making pipe cleaner puppies. I want to learn to make other pipe cleaner animals. 
www.fasterkittykill.blogspot.com
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sunflowercritters
True Blue Farmgirl
1102 Posts
Debra
Springfield
Maine
USA
1102 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2011 : 04:52:26 AM
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Oh! How cute your puppies are Pam. Looks like your having a fun time making them.
farmgirl sister Deb
I Thessalonians 5:16,17
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
http://sunflowercritters.blogspot.com/ |
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textilelover
True Blue Farmgirl
557 Posts
Dianne
Middletown
NY
USA
557 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2011 : 06:04:07 AM
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Adorable pipe cleaner puppies! Deb, what is a drop spindle used for? I am not sewing this week, as I am on vacation in FL. But I am going to the best mom and pop sewing store The Sewing Studio in Maitland, FL. I can't wait! Dianne
Sister #749
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." --Leondardo da Vinci |
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bobbinrobin
True Blue Farmgirl
590 Posts
Sharon
Newman Lake
WA
USA
590 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2011 : 06:33:38 AM
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I have a good friend who lives in Ontario Canada and she occasionally sends me postage stamps from Canada. They way out~shine ours here in the USA. Found some sweet little frames while thrifting and have been inserting the stamps in the frames and offering them in my bobbinrobin etsy shop.
 
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it. -G. Elliston
www.sharnymcclarny.etsy.com
www.bobbinrobin.etsy.com
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shabbyms
True Blue Farmgirl
157 Posts
Cheryle
Naperville
IL
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2011 : 1:32:51 PM
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Cutter quilt recycle project
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This was a hard project for me as I consider myself a beginner seamstress-I do uphostry but thats just straight lines this was hard. Not only to find the good parts of a cutter quilt but to find a good balance & something acceptable to the eye plus I had to complete some repair work. Thank goodness I had that back issue of MaryJane's where they talked about just this issue. No I will dust off the tablecloth and pillowcase collections...lookout world. Reuse, Recycle & repurpose. tee hee hee
Love will make a way out of no way. -Lynda Barry
Cheryle is Farmgirl #604 |
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1401 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
1401 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2011 : 3:07:25 PM
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I just adore the framed stamps. However, I think USA stamps are just as pretty. How "large" are the frames? They are really cute.
Betty in Pasco |
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bobbinrobin
True Blue Farmgirl
590 Posts
Sharon
Newman Lake
WA
USA
590 Posts |
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Vintage Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
70 Posts
Sue
Woodbine
Maryland
USA
70 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2011 : 3:52:24 PM
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I finally cut out the tunic dress I have been wanting to make. Straightening my sewing room this morning helped get me motivated. Perhaps tomorrow I will actually start sewing it!
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun" - Katharine Hepburn
www.mymotherspearls.me |
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LucyLobo511
True Blue Farmgirl
177 Posts
Mari-lyn
Capron
IL
USA
177 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2011 : 08:22:18 AM
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Sewed together a pair of sleepin pants for my daughter front is orange back is duckys super cute.
Insane and Blissfully Happy
Mari-lyn
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textilelover
True Blue Farmgirl
557 Posts
Dianne
Middletown
NY
USA
557 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2011 : 12:37:17 PM
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Although I haven't been sewing (I was away then swamped at work), I wanted to share the pattern and sample chicken pincushion that LindaJo sent me. The second picture is of a bookshelf in my sewing room with handmade pincushions stitched by me and some other farmgirls. Dianne in the Hudson Valley 
Sister #749
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." --Leondardo da Vinci |
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DebbieSue
True Blue Farmgirl
199 Posts
Debbie
TX
USA
199 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2011 : 12:13:55 PM
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| I am working on a quilt for my 3 yr old nephew, Kayden. I hope to have it finished this next week. It has his name in big block letters going diagonally down on the front side ... Also doing a little bit of scrapebooking! |
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Vintage Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
70 Posts
Sue
Woodbine
Maryland
USA
70 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2011 : 1:35:19 PM
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Today I put the finishing touches on a special cuff bracelet I am making for my farmgirl friend Julie, and then had fun sorting through all my vintage buttons to choose some special ones for a barter I am participating in.
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun" - Katharine Hepburn
www.mymotherspearls.me |
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
1406 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2011 : 2:32:49 PM
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Well, I have the house to myself this weekend, so I am making some aprons and organizing the craft room.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad!
Farmgirl #680!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/lessielouise22 |
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Nanniekim
True Blue Farmgirl
206 Posts
Kim
Arizona
206 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2011 : 9:14:03 PM
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Just finished crocheting a rag rug for my back door using t-shirt yarn. I've also started making dish cloths - some for me and some for gifts.
Kim |
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