Show & Tell!

It's been a while since the last Show & Tell post, but this one is worth the wait.

Sit back and enjoy what a few lovely Elefantz readers have been making from my designs or my ideas...

Thoeria is from South Africa, and regularly comments and encourages me. She's new to using a sewing machine, but is very proficient in cross stitch so drop over to her blog HERE for some sweet eye candy.

I love how she took two of my free designs and made them her own...

(click on my tutorials page button to find these patterns)

Dear Meg in Canberra blessed a teenage cancer patient by stitching "The Sparrow" to share God's love with her young patient...

(click on my free designs button to find the pattern)

Virginia in Chile followed my "Buttons 'n' Bows" pattern to make her version of this honey of a bag!

Denise in sunny Saudi Arabia (I love how Denise always signs off her emails with that description!)  has been very busy stitching beautiful versions of both the "Tweet" needle cupboard and a block from the Rosedaisy Alphabet pattern!

(both patterns are here in my shop)

 

My friend Robin in the US (we've been email buddies for well over a decade now and have never met face to face, but what a blessing it is for me to know her) stitched one of my framed stitcheries from 2012 into the prettiest purple pillow for her daughter, Amanda...

 Using a block from a BOM to create something individual is a really clever idea, and Lynn has done just that! She stitched one of my Daisy Days Quilt blocks, changed the wording from Tuesdaisy to 'summer' for a summer quilt exchange!

(see my Daisy Days quilt here)

Patsy Cash has made a start on The Lord's Prayer Sttichalong quilt, and I have to say her choice of fabrics are scrumptious indeed!

Have you made any projects from my three 'binding scraps' tutorials shared this month?

They are here, here and here.

Wendy was quick off the mark turning an orphan stitchery into a mini-quilt to feature on this sweet cushion...

Are you inspired by these Show & Tell photos? I am!

Thank you to all these lovely ladies for sending me photos of what they have made from an Elefantz design or idea.

I guess there is only one thing for me to do now...keep creating new stitchy goodness to busy your fingers, right? 

Have a brilliant day,

Show & Tell...

It's been a while since I did a show and tell post, but I'm taking a break from writing the e-zine this morning to share with you these photos of Elefantz projects made by some lovely blog readers.

Grab a cuppa because you may want to follow the links to the blogs of those who have them!

Some of the photo are very blurry, but I don't want to omit them because these ladies have kindly taken time to email me  photos to share - just remember that iphones and ipads (especially ipads) do not take the best photographs and its often a good idea to take a few photos of the same thing and choose the clearest to send or use.

Tammy Lyons was the winner of my 5 year Blogversary giveaway in September, and she is also making my free BOM, Shabby Roses Home. I love this photo of her work space with the first block...

Carol Mina has been very busy stitching some of my new and older designs!

 

 

Esperanza has been  brightly stitching Shabby Roses Home blocks too!

Gunn in Norway is stitching my Daisy Days BOM, and recently sent me this little photo of her sweet version of Wednesdaisy and Thursdaisy, as well as the Little House in California runner from a recent Elefantz Home Ezine!

The very productive Fiona over at Bubz Rugz made my Shabby Roses 'Bouquet' quilt. I shared this first in 2010, and then over one week during my 5 year blogversary last month. Fiona made this when I first shared it three years ago...love it!

Margaret Vernon beautifully stitched "Lord Bless You" for her father who is terminally ill...

Joy couldn't resist stitching my 'joy' applique from a recent issue of Handmade magazine onto a bag she'd made, and also framed my little redwork 'Partridge & Pear' stitchery in a frame she found at the op shop and her husband had painted for her. Aren't they an industrious couple!?

Pia celebrated Autumn by stitching an older wall hanging pattern of mine that featured machine raw edged applique, "Autumn Falling". I love her machine quilting around the tree!

Lida is another prolific stitcher, and she's made quite a few of my patterns...

Thank you to all these lovely ladies for sharing their work with us!

If you have photos of any Elefantz designs you have made just email me HERE and I'll share them in a monthly Show & Tell blog post.

Back to writing the ezine...

hugs

Jenny

xx

PS: some of the patterns above are still available HERE in my shop.