Carrots are good for you!

Curious?

Any idea as to what's inside?

Hmm, what could it be?

Okay, okay - I won't make you wait any longer . . .

"A Bunny Garden Needleroll" by Praiseworthy Stitches

DMC floss, 28 ct raw linen

A needleroll, a pincushion, and a scissor fob all small enough to fit into their carrot 'house'. TOO CUTE! Everything to complete the project was included - linen, fabric, floss, beads, felt, thread rings, charm, ribbon, even a flower-head pin! I love it when I don't have to go searching for all the separate items that go into a project like this. And then there are other times when I like being creative and adventurous and experimental and start putting things together and am amazingly surprised (or utterly shocked) as to what evolves! Oops, I'm getting sidetracked.


Here's a photo of the needleroll unrolled showing bunnies-large and small-in their vegetable garden filled with rows of lettuce and cauliflower and carrots. Do you see the little worms? There's a tiny one among the flowers and one crawling his way among the veggies.




Here's a closeup of the lower portion of the needleroll . . .





See the busy bees buzzing around the hive?


Here's what the 'working' side of the needleroll looks like:

This was such a delight to stitch. Thank you for letting me share it with you.

Chocolate Covered Cherries

When I saw this chart I knew I had to stitch it! Chocolate covered cherries are one of my favorites! I finished it as an ornament. A hanging loop is formed if the pin at top is removed. Stick more pins in it and it becomes a pinkeep.

Chocolate Covered Cherries

free design by Casey Buonaugurio

available here.

I auditioned all sorts of fabrics for the back. You wouldn’t think it would be so difficult to find a suitable backing fabric but nothing seemed to work. So, to perk up the solid red faux silk backing that was finally chosen, I raided the button jar looking for a ‘cherry’ button to put on the back. Out of luck again so I took a plain button and stitched some cherries into the holes of a 4-hole button.

They look like cherries don’t they? Kinda . . . sorta . . . maybe?