Barbie's Closet

JDR Brazilian website is back up, so now I can forward you to the designs by dorothy-platt. The nine-patch flowers sampler and the autumn chrysanthemums are her patterns. I don't see the autumn one and its companions on this list, so I'll have to go thru other channels to get the rest. Here it is as far as I can go today. I ran out of Iris thread for the last wheat stalk--aren't they adorable?

Also figured out how to create a link to inaminuteago in case I ever have anything to add to TAST. Hey, remember my back-and-forth buttonhole? Turns out it is actually Cretan stitch. Why aren't they related in the stitch dictionary? And feather stitch is related?! Wow, I'm new to all this, but my block is going like crazy with all kinds of buttonhole and herringbone (and the one running bullion I couldn't resist) so TAST is working for me. I can't decide about the bigger lazy daisy flower. I put it there to balance the big buttonhole fans which turned into 3 bowties. You can see one at the bottom. It does balance it, but it's kind of a sloppy flower. I kind of wanted it to look not-too-perfect, like a doodle, but I don't want it to look just sloppy.

Here's today's peek in Barbie's Closet. Hey--that would have been a better name for this blog: Barbie's Closet. This is a poncho from Nicky Epstein's book. I would have loved to own this myself in about 2nd grade!

Back to work tomorrow. I hope I can keep up my creativity at work with all this creativity flowing at home. I'm going to choose to believe that each will feed the other!