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Pride And Prejudice Embroidery Pattern | Whims And Fancies

Purchase Pride And Prejudice – Fools In Love embroidery pattern

There are too many women from the stories that I love to list here. I love the character of Ms. Elizabeth Bennet so much that I found myself needing to draw this Pride and Prejudice embroidery pattern.

Pride And Prejudice Embroidery Pattern | Whims And Fancies

I used wash-off stabilizer for the first time on this piece. It leaves a tiny bit of starchiness after washing, which gives the whole piece a wonderful finish. I used DMC perle 8 for the first time too, a navy thread. I used three different stitches for varying thickness: chain stitch, stem stitch and back stitch, with chain stitch being one of my favourites. I really love how it turned out. At the moment I am not exactly sure what I will do with this block. I may come up with a few more designs to make a small Pride And Prejudice quilt.

Doctor Who Rose Tyler Doomsday Mitts

This one is for Ms. Rose Tyler. The tenth Doctor and Rose had such a sad ending. I don’t watch it too often since it leaves me in a daze every time I watch it. It always seems that happy and sad endings walk along side by side.

I wanted to make these mitts ever since the very first time I saw the episode. The extent of my knowledge of knitting back then was basic cast on, cast off, purl and knit. Since then I have learned how to make fingerless mitts, and from there I jumped straight into cable. I am happy to say that once I started knitting the second mitt, I was already able to knit without looking at the pattern file anymore. I love this pair of gloves so much! I added an extra diamond to cover my palm a little better. They not only keep my hands warm, they also make me feel warm and comfortable in a very nostalgic way. This pattern by Christina Slattery can be found on Ravelry.

Pink Flowers | Whims And Fancies

My ageless cactus plant blooms only once a year. Just for a couple of days all the flowers burst open together like a fireworks finale. Every year the display is more spectacular than the year before. The flowers are very much like these ladies I love so much, rare and beautiful.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone,
-Soma

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Star patterns in my Shop

I will start with a little background story to this quilt. A few years ago while I was volunteering at a shelter, Mr. Montague Wilberforce joined our little band. At the time he was a sick, stressed-out, untrusting, biting middle-aged man. However, over months of care and a lot of patience, he became a healthy, relaxed and loving gentleman who now purrs all the time. He also likes nothing better than to spend a lot of his day with me.

Except, there is the little factor of a gigantic Maine Coon boy named Mr. Tuffleberry who has been spending his days with me while I work since he was a tiny little kitten. He does not like to share his bed. So Mr. Montague comes by now and then in between his romps around the house to cuddle and sleep on my lap for a while. Since he loves to be very close to his humans without being on the lap the whole time, he spends the rest of the day with my husband in the next room while he works.

I really love quilting for my kitties. I made the 2014 Pantone Challenge quilt for Mr. Tuffleberry while he was recovering from a surgery. Now it was time to make a personal quilt for Mr. Montague as well.

My knitting stars quilt patterns – Aran, Argyle, Vale and Fair Isle

Star patterns in my Shop

I had made these vintage-themed star quilt blocks last year. Having read up on the history of British knitting, I based these patterns on traditional knitting designs. I made the Argyle and Vale stars first from a set of Grandma’s House fat quarters, and then a mistake led me to making the Fair Isle Star and the Aran Star with different background colours. I found a perfect Fleur-de-lis grey-cream fabric for the sashing, and I used it for the backing too. Originally I wanted to hand quilt this, but I am a very slow hand quilter and it would have taken forever. At the end I decided to machine quilt it with a crisscross diagonal quilting pattern using a green variegated thread and bound the quilt with Kona Chocolate.

Now my beautiful blue-eyed boy Monty has a quilt made specially for him that he lounges on and I can chalk up another finish.

-Soma

Two Of My Favourite Ladies

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