Simply Sewing Magazine

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen that I posted a picture of Simply Sewing magazine.  
I am so happy that the Sewing Room embroidery pattern set was included in their "Fab Finds" section!

Thank you Simply Sewing Magazine!  

Sewing room stitching - sort of finished

 Do you remember this wip?  Well I have finished all of the stitching:

The embroidery pattern has five buttons to transfer and stitch.  On my last post about this,  I  was thinking maybe it would work to embroider actual buttons on the project.  Thank you everyone for your positive comments about buttons on that post - I did stitch them on and I love the result!

For the pins in the pincushion, I am looking for beads that are the right size/colors (thank you Rachel for the great idea!) but until I find them, I put these actual sewing pins into the fabric.  I secured them on the back:

Here is a picture from the side so that you can see how 3-d this looks.  I love it!

To finish this, I would like to frame it. It will fit beautifully in an 8-1/2 x 11" frame with plenty of room for a creative matting/border. I may even use a shadow box frame like the Shhh...Baby's Sleeping picture shower gift I did - you can see that here .  Once I find the right beads for the pins and make a decision on the frame, I will post my results!

Progress Report - Sewing Room wip

Here is a little progress on my sewing room project.  I have finished stitching the measuring tape and the scissors.  I don't know if you can see them in this picture, but the pattern has five buttons above the tape measure.  I am ready to start stitching the buttons - I have a few buttons from my button supply to give me some color ideas.  Actually, some of these buttons are the perfect size to just sew onto this project.  I could do that rather than embroider buttons...

You might notice that I ended up stitching the scissor handles in orange.  This was after trying to decide which color would look best - I want to thank you everyone for your comments and ideas on my last post :) I went with the orange and I think it looks wonderful!

And speaking of orange:

I wanted to share these pictures from my blooming zinnia.  Isn't this a beautiful color?

Sewing Room

These pattern pieces are part of my new embroidery pattern packet called Sewing Room.

I really enjoyed putting these designs together.  The designs are perfect for embellishing just about anything you would find in a sewing room! 

I am stitching these three pattern pieces to frame and hang in my sewing room:

and I want to make a sewing machine cover that I can embellish with embroidery from these patterns!

This is the pattern packet - available in my Etsy shop here