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My Workspace Today

Good afternoon! Just wanted to share with you what I am doing today. I have four dress/hat sets that are in progress for Amelia Thimble dolls. Currently I am sewing the beads on for buttons and weaving in ends. Then they need a fine water mist and time to dry (to set the buttonholes). Then they are ready for the fun stuff, embroidery.

Amelia wanted to hold up one of the little elf dresses for you. She is so helpful, isn’t she? This one is knit out of over dyed alpaca/silk light red lace weight yarn with a kid mohair/silk lace edging that looks like white fur trim. There is another elf dress to be embroidered; this one in red merino/silk yarn. A sky blue and light pink kid mohair/silk dress and hat set are also waiting to be finished. Oh, and I have six other sets completely finished! I will get those photographed soon…!

I’ve come to love hand sewing and embroidering on this June Taylor quilt board. (You can see it in the background.) I also use it for blocking my knits. It is padded so pins can be stuck into it, the color allows me to find things easily, and the fabric is a coarse cotton so beads and needles don’t roll around. I can also set it on my lap if I want to work in a chair or on the sofa. It is 18″ x 25″ which I find is a good size for a spreading my supplies out. The link goes to a site where I found one in this size. I purchased mine many years ago at a local sewing store.

Back to work for me. Hope you enjoyed seeing what I’m working on today.

Amelia Thimble’s New Dresses from the Garden

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Look what bloomed from my needles (both knitting and embroidery needles) recently. I love making these hand knit and embroidered dresses for Amelia Thimble so much and my Amelia loves modeling them for you.

These four dresses are quite a colorful bunch. Each is hand knit with a different yarn. From left to right: kid mohair/silk (Aloft), bamboo thread (Aunt Lydia’s), hand dyed merino/silk (Gloss), and a tonal baby alpaca/silk (Shimmer).

This yarn produces very faint stripes in baby blue, lilac, and a blue in between the two.

I had tiny bits left from a previous knitting project of both of these hand dyed colors in my stash. It was just enough to make this pink and blue set for Amelia. The hat is knit with both colors also. The photo doesn’t show it, but the top is knit in blue. I added a very thin sparkly ecru ribbon embroidery thread for a bow. It’s itty bitty, teeny tiny.

I hope you liked seeing Amelia’s new dresses. For more information about these dress please visit my website.

Patience & Amelia Thimble Show Off Their New Outfits

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Patience and Amelia Thimble (both from Wilde Imagination) are so very excited to show you their new “sister” outfits.

They love their super soft knitwear that I hand knit out of lace weight kid mohair/silk yarn in a shade of pink that reminds me of cotton candy. I hand embroidered little forget-me-nots in shades of floss to match the print in Patience’s dress. I gave Amelia an extra flower on her dress, my interpretation of the multi-petaled mum like pink flower. They are happy girls, can you tell?

I tucked my delicate new cotton cluny lace between a fold in the skirt. Love this lace!

I think the colors in this print (Hope Chest by Josephine Kimberling) are so pretty for fall. The pinks and turquoise blues are muted just enough for autumn. The terracotta, rust, and green are more typical for this time of year. I love all of these colors together! I am always looking for fall color palettes to have “pretty” colors in them. I typically do not like complete earth tone color palettes.