Sunday, January 2, 2011

First Finished Project of 2011

Cider House Garden is finally finished! I hoped to finish it before the year ended, but I just couldn't quite make it. So here it is- finished on January 1st, 2011!
I pressed it, but it isn't stretched yet. It will look even better once I have it stretched. I'm going to frame this one and hang it somewhere in my home. I don't know just where yet.

I have really enjoyed working on this the last several weeks. So much so that I was itching to pick out a new project. Here's a peek at the new piece that I started just last night:


More details about this pattern coming soon.

In other news, I have finally finished the Burda Cover Dress! (Jan 1st was a BIG day for me!) I can't wait to show it off, but I have to get some good photos first. The ones I took this morning were awful, so I'm going to try again this afternoon when the light is better. Now that the dress is done, I can get back to the flutter sleeve top, and I need to make a muslin of my vintage pattern for the Vintage Sew Along.

Here's to a new year full of lots of sewing and stitching!

6 comments:

gMarie said...

Love the finished piece and the little sample is going to be fabulous! I used to do lots of cross stitch, but with a house of hounds.....

Excited to see your cover dress. I bet it's fabulous. g

angie.a said...

It's so pretty. Woudln't you just love to live in that pretty little house?

Can't wait to see the cover dress!

Mommyof2girlz/StephD said...

Very sweet!

Juanita said...

Very pretty! And how nice that you were able to start the New Year with a finish. May you have many more.

Venus de Hilo said...

Lovely! Wonderful, too, that your new year starts with projects wins/completes. Hope your entire 2011 is filled with similar satisfactions.

Brigitte said...

Wow, what a wonderful piece, with so many details. Congratulations on finishing it.
A great new start, your alphabet.