Accept This Trifle Gift Tag

This is the month of new chart releases for me.

Behold! Accept This Trifle Gift Tag!

In a land before time - somewhere in Ohio in November - Kelmscott Designs and I were discussing a round shape. She sent it to me.

It sat there looking at me from a corner in my sewing room.

I pondered.

Christmas ornament? Frisbee? Yoyo?

I believe it was three am when lightening struck my brain. I had an apostrophe! Or is it an epiphany?

This round shape would make a great giant gift tag!

Accept This Trifle came to being.

Of course it is double sided because what is a gift tag if there isn't a TO and a FROM?

I loved the idea of old fashioned names. Gertrude is one of my favorites.  

Now, Becky! you may be thinking, my name isn't Polly and I haven't known anyone named Gertrude for at least a hundred years.

I did actually think of that (MIRACLE) so I have a sheet in the chart that has the To and the From plus the flower but the rest of it is blank so you can chart your names! Additional miracles occurred and I remembered to put in the entire alphabet upper and lower case.

When finishing the project it looked a little plain so I added huge rick rack under the linen piece and it really jazzed it up.  A piece of crinkled black seam tape threads through the hole at the top and is a cute hanger for your tag.

How to personalize your gift tag for that special someone. It's easy.

Get a sharp pencil and start counting and scribbling your names in the blanks!   Luke wanted to send a gift to his dear old dad that has ten letters in his name. His Jedi training did not fail him and with a wave of his hand it was done!

Never fear, you can get any name of any size in this project!

You can get the chart here and I also have the gift tag blanks in my shop!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/588607936/accept-this-trifle-gift-tag-cross-stitch?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Even I am wondering how many movie and literary references are in this post......

Quaker Pumpkin - Scary Stitches Club

The first Scary Stitches Club kit is being mailed out this month!

Let me introduce you to my little friend.....

Quaker Pumpkin!

I just love the little tombstones all around the quaker design with tiny pumpkins on their long stems!

I admit I have an obsession with strawberries and crinkled seam tape.

You can find my tutorial on how to make the tiny stitches on the strawberries here  https://lucybeam.blogspot.com/2016/08/strawberry-stitches.html

This was such a fun delicate stitch with just one strand of floss over two. I was delighted with how well it showed up on the dark linen!

I love rick rack too.  I decided to attach it with little black straight pins which are included in your kit of course!

OH! WHAT IS THAT I SEE?

I made everyone a special scissor fob!  A bright and colorful addition to your favorite scissors while you stitch all the Scary Stitches this year. 

If you haven't signed up it is never too late my Halloween Loving Friends!! 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/571202546/1-full-membership-to-scary-stitches?ref=shop_home_feat_2

Queen Chicky & The Speckled Egg

I had a wonderful class I taught last year. Queen Chicky & The Speckled Egg. Sounds like the title to a great mystery doesn't it?

It was no mystery that everyone had a great time though!

I am now offering it in chart form with detailed instructions on how to put it all together.

You will need a nesting chicken from the Indiana Class Company.

The scissors are Putford from Kelmscott Designs.

I have a funny story for you from one of the chicken classes.

One of the students was stitching the middle part of the nest and her husband walked up to see what she was doing. He asked her why the word Hell was right next to the chicken.  It says Hen!

I about died laughing.

www.etsy.com/shop/lucybeam

Tea Box Class

I have a new class I am so excited to tell you about! 

The Tea Box 

Who doesn't love tea?  I do! I grew up in England and learned from a young age the joys of Tea.  Thristy? Make Tea. Four O' Clock? Make Tea. Guests coming over? Make Tea. Crisis happening? Make Tea.  My mom was told by her British friends that I made a perfect British citizen when there was a motorcycle accident in front of our house and I started running to the kitchen hollering "I'll make the tea!"

Tea & Honey, what a perfect combination.  Tea grows on trees and was discovered in China thousands of years ago.  

Here we have a potted tea plant that grows tea bags, how convenient!

The box is covered in vintage Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook pages.  Inside the box you can store your tea packets or tea related paraphernalia.

There is a paper tea bag made from tea stained vintage cookbook papers with a coffee filter tag.

 Six weeks before the class I will be mailing you your kit! Stitch your project with a steaming mug of tea and maybe a Jane Austen movie on in the background. 

When you get to class I will show up with all the finishing supplies and show you how to finish your box!

OH MY! What fun we will have!

I am teaching this class at Notforgotten Farm on July 14, 2018. Contact Lori at notforgottenfarmwitch at gmail.com to register.

For those shops who would like me to come and teach this project at your shop email me at lucybeamthreads at yahoo.com

Now I'm going to go and make a pot of tea!