Little Black Tin

The plan was to give this as a Christmas gift, but it fell by the wayside and didn't get finished in time. It's made from an an Altoid mint tin. I collect tins and have covered them before, but nothing this elaborate. I thought I should finish it and can have it ready for when I need to give a gift. I joined a Altoid tin swap, so I'm considering it a practice run.

The bottom inside is lined with felt and the top inside has a magnet glued in place.

Here are a couple of pictures of a portion of my tin collection.

Journey of the Ark

This is my latest project. I love working on it and it's such a great take along project. I don't need any equipment, beads or lace, I only need the piece of fabric I'm working on and one color embroidery thread. There are a total of nine blocks, I put them on osnaburg fabric and am using brown embroidery thread.

Final group of postcards

I ran across these quilt blocks that I made from a demo from my quilt guild about 100 years ago. I though it was such a fun idea I would use those for my inspiration for my last set of fabric postcards for the Art2Mail group. They are sewn onto computer paper and I thinking perhaps the reason I quite making them could be because I realized it may not be an easy task taking all the paper off the back.

These are the postcards. I like the way they turned out and they are different from the ones I've been receiving.

I took it to the next level and combined both the quilt blocks and postcards and made these for my cat loving friends. I also added some inches that I had sitting around.

More Fabric postcards

Here are two more post cards for the Art2Mail group. And yes, the end is near.

A girl can't have too many accessories

I needed to take a short break from making postcards so this is what I did. It only took about 15 minutes. I know it looks like it is too small for her but I make it that way for a very good reason. She has so much hair and gets so hot in the summer, I thought if it was smaller it would be cooler for her when it starts to get warm.