December is just around the corner and Thanksgiving is only days away! Little ones in picture smocked outfits for Christmas are so adorable. If you are going to get them finished in time, you need to start now, if you haven’t already! To help get those inspiration juices flowing, I have gathered together a number of free Christmas smocking plates together a few years ago. Unfortunately some of them are no longer available, but I have gone through the post, updated all the li

Tawn is back today with another quick and easy ornament for a sewing enthusiast. Tawn was recently on the blog with her beautiful free smocking design, Reese's Garden of Hearts and before that with her two previous ornament posts (see below). Here is Tawn to explain her inspiration for this latest ornament! I was in my sewing room, needed to thread a needle, reached for my fun needle threader (I buy about 10-20 at a time from China) and thought, this could make a cute Christ

Last year when I was taking down the Christmas tree I packed up the ornaments for my daughter who had just gotten married. Yesterday, I put the box in the mail and they are on their way to her in Illinois. There is nothing of great monetary value in the box, but it is full of memories from the baby's first Christmas ornament, to the violin ornaments her grandmother gave her, to the various ornaments purchased on vacations we took over the years. Ornaments are a wonderful way