Wlydhare's Hollow

[...] doll houses and have created my own miniatures since I was a child. Unfortunately, the sturdy doll house my father made me as a child, was stolen from my garage when I was in my 20s and I have not had [...]

[...] can stand or sit. They were each only $1 - how can you pass up a deal like that? As to my doll house, I have made progress, but I ran into a snag today. I was trying to test the electrical [...]

[...] new one, before they can send it back. *bummer* So, to cheer myself up, I decided to work on my doll house, and get the electricity repaired in hopes of making my end-of-month deadline to finish the [...]

[...] myself a day off each week to just play. One of my on-going projects is finishing the doll house which has been sitting in a corner of the craft room for..well for years. That was my [...]

[...] to juggle, as of late. As I mentioned in my last blog, I am working on launching my machine embroidery business. I feel progress is good in that area. I have come up with a name, E' Bellish, ordered [...]

[...] profits into the supplies for her charity. As you may recall, I am running a fledgling machine embroidery business called E’Bellish. Beth is my first customer, well guinea pig, because while I an [...]

[...] show at the local fair grounds. It was primarily to get information and ideas for my machine embroidery business. They were having a special on the top 100 most popular colors for embroidery machines, [...]

[...] room floor really needs a vacuum." "You need to be working on the machine embroidery business!" So, in order to find a balance, I have decided that I will focus the [...]

[...] , but it is very hard to make any money doing it, since the time and energy to embroider one kitchen towel exceeds any possible profit. My hope is that with machine embroidery I can create some [...]

[...] work and no play, right? This one involved using wonder-under to do applique work on a kitchen towel. I need to machine zig-zag around the edges still, and do some finishing touches, like [...]

[...] If there were only more hours in the day to do the fun stuff! Last week I went to a sewing and quilting show at the local fair grounds. It was primarily to get information and ideas for my machine [...]

[...] name in the middle of the night. Do you have that problem? The kitchen towel I started at the quilting show got finished, and surprisingly only took about an additional hour. After wards I thought, & [...]

[...] eyes and mouth. Poor thing can't see! I feel guilty! I found a new design company called Bird Brain Designs. They do wonderful, country style redwork, as well a felting, and projects in felt. This is [...]

[...] working on it for over a month now. It required learning all sorts of things from creating vector graphics; providing the machine with instructions to compensation with the stretch of fabrics; and [...]

[...] start and don't get around to finishing? So my first orphan to work on is a doll kit to make a Hitty doll by Gail Wilson. The real Hitty in the book "Hitty: Her First Hundred Years" is all [...]

[...] , etc. and then sent to the GCNW centers in Africa. There, interested girls are taught embroidery skills and will practice with the provided kit. With guidance they are then taught design [...]

[...] , the projects you start and don't get around to finishing? So my first orphan to work on is a doll kit to make a Hitty doll by Gail Wilson. The real Hitty in the book "Hitty: Her First Hundred [...]

[...] court in the front room, where I have a nice view of the front yard while I work. For machine embroidery geeks, this is the Babylock Entrepreneur with 10 needles. It sews up to 1000 stitches per [...]