First up is a freebie pattern I got at the Shepherd's Bush Retreat. It is a Workbasket design stitched with Crescent Colors, Red Manor. I lined the inside of the box with a color copy of a fat quarter of Moda Glace' fabric.
Next up is a Blackbird Designs Reward of Merit chart called Buttons and Pins. It's actually designed to be a pin cushion, but given my obscession with boxes...it became a box.
These box tops were a lot of fun to stitch. They took longer to stitch than I thought they would, I always think these little stitches will take an hour or two...whatever!
Now I have a little funny story: Last Sunday night Wayne and I took a little stroll to meet some neighbors that live closeby. The husband invited us in so he could show us his new house and apologized to us that he was cleaning. Rugs were up, mop out, vacuum out, etc...you get the idea... I noticed his wife in a room with her Ott-Lite on, sitting at a table stitching and watching a movie. The husband was chatting us up and we him...I finally asked, "Does your wife stitch?" "Oh yes," he said, "all the time." There she was sitting in the bedroom...stitching away...while HE WAS CLEANING THE HOUSE! What a husband! On the walk home Wayne said he was sorry...sorry for what??? Sorry that he doesn't clean the house??? I don't think so...he wasn't that sorry...I know it...GAH!!! I didn't train him right approximately 35 years ago...
