A few smalls through the years

Hello, all!  I hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving!  No shopping for me this weekend, I don't "do" malls and large department stores, and haven't for years!  I really don't think I'm missing anything.  I do most of my shopping at small shops locally, and online for my son.

First off, why I have been missing.  Some time ago my Mac starting acting funny one in a while, with strange pop-ups saying that the website I was trying to access was not safe, and it was a website I don't even go to.  Well, typical me, I just ignored it even as things got worse until one day the whole laptop just froze and refused to do anything.  Ggrrrr..... I finally asked my son to look at it, and with the help of his computer whiz friend, everything was fixes.  However, when I went to blogger it said I didn't own any blogs and wasn't following any either.  Eventually I figured out to sign back in to blogger, and presto, everything is back now!  So I have have missed commenting, this is why.  Also, for some strange reason some of the blogs I comment on come back to me with that annoying "mailer daemon" undelivered thingy. :(  I hope that some of you are still around to read my blog.

I thought I'd share a variety of "smalls" I have stitched through the years.  These are a sampling of classes,  and some of my own designs.  A lot have been given away or sold, but this is some of what I have left.  No Christmas designs included, as those are still packed away.  If I have forgotten the designer, please forgive me.  If you really want to know, let me know and I will research further.

1. 

A little mini sampler, just made up by me not using any pattern, picked a name of one of the daughters of the original settler of the farm.

Hanging bag, Let Virtue Be a Guide to Thee.  Stacy Nash.

I love this punch needle bag designed by 1890 Gable House Designs.

Shaker sewing box, Merry Cox.

Little sewing book, it opens up with needle book and pocket.

 

Inside page of the Alphabet Book, designed by Ellen Chester.  It is faded because there was a dog accident on it and I had to soak it.

Punch needle bird designed by Brenda Gervais mounted on old oil can.

Sarah Smithfield, I think by Goode Huswife, mounted on hornbook board.

Designed by Ellen Chester.

My design, just made up, stitched on top with vintage blocks on the bottom and coordinating huswife inside.

Sewing box designed by Brenda Gervais made from standard chocolates box from Whitman's.

The box is painted and antiqued.

Cute little pincushion/pillow.

Another sewing pocket, this one made from part of the John Foster sampler.

Two pieces left over of a German sampler that I made and sold a sampler pocket out of,  I just stuck them in this little vintage gold frame.

This was the Anna Cole sampler that I made into a huswife.

Anna Cole again.  The inside has three pockets of coordinating vintage fabric.

Two more designs of mine inspired by Quakers designs mounted on hornbooks.

Adaption of the huswife design from the Sampler and Antique Needlework Book 1, I think.

Pincushion by Brenda Gervais that goes with the Whitman box above.  Used antique lace and buttons.

Inside of another shaker box by Merry Cox.

The other side of the above box.

That's all for now if you are still with me after all these pictures.   When I start on Christmas I will share those also.  I have no idea why it starts out with the paragraphs starting on the left, then suddenly switches to centered in the middle :)  The wonder of computers!  

Melinda

xxx