TTMT #58 When do you eat dinner?

TTMT #57 Collecting sea shells in the middle of the road

WiP it Wednesday #4 It's all about the Rare Bears

Here are the links to some of the things I've worked on this week:

Gather Hat

Heart's of Flutter

Barb's patterns

Robbie's rainbow socks

Grandmother's favorite dishcloth

Freedom wall hanging  Be sure to check Allie's other fun embroidery patterns on Craftsy.

Floral Unicorn 6" embroidery design   You need to sign up for the free newsletter to get access to her free patterns.

Teenager approved hat

Rare Bears


Here's a couple sites for those non-knitters:

Knitter's Knitcabulary

Knitter's Slang

TTMT #56 Construction, crafting, and missing comments

Here's this week's Talk To Me Tuesday video. I have a finished object, new starts, and everything in between.  It's been pretty noisy around here lately. The utilities project is right in front of my house so there's lots of beeping vehicles, diesel smells, and huge machinery noises.  I've also noticed that I am not receiving notifications of comments on this blog. I'm very sorry if you've commented and I didn't respond!! I've checked my settings and we'll see if it gets any better.

TTMT #55 The Week I actually Left My House

Rare Bear Charity Sewing

One of my charity projects for this year has been making unstuffed bears for Rare Science. I found this charity while watching videos from Rob Appell  aka Man Sewing on YouTube. In his Rare Bear tutorial video he mentioned that Rare Science prefers that we don't stuff our cute little bears. I figured that was perfect because an unstuffed bear is easier to make and less expensive to ship. Perfect.

This is a picture of my next 8/10 bear heads. I giggle whenever I take pictures like this. When sewing these bears you completely stitch the heads before moving on to the rest of their body parts. I've mailed and donated several of these bears so far but I've decided that I won't be making more next year. I've decided I'm really not a sewn stuffie maker. Too many pieces and it's not difficult to sew the heads to their bodies but it is a bit trying and fiddly. 

Hand Embroidery

I've always enjoyed hand embroidery but I've only used a handful of stitches in the past. I've decided that this year I'm going to learn as many new stitches as I can. While watching tutorials on YouTube I came across Namaste Embroidery. There are tons of stitch videos but most of them have music playing and no actual talking. I prefer to have someone explain the stitches to me and chat with me so it feels like I'm sitting right next to them stitching along. I know. I'm weird. Jessica also has a website where she sells a variety of embroidery designs. I also found these free designs. Both where on the same printout so I went ahead and stitched each of them. The one on the right is her original design and the heart on the left is her updated version with a few different stitches added. These are meant to be hung right in the hoops you use to stitch them but I think I might make them into a little wall hanging so they can both be together since they're basically the same design.