My Craft Closet Creations: Long time no see

My, it has been a long time since I've posted.

I've finally been able to start creating again. I am a snob; I almost wrote "crafting" but that conjures up images in my head of glue, paper, and other oddments. Meh.

I hate being a snob but there it is.

Here is a little view of what I've been doing. Keep in mind that most of these items were made before the end of May. I've only done the kitchen towels, the teething toy, the scarf, and the wedding sampler from May through August....

I penciled an old photo of Harriet Tubman then embroidered it. Lolita

has the selling rights to this pattern.

One of the ladies in one of my doll clubs wanted "table favors" for a doll convention she was attending. Voila! It's one of her dolls in the photo on the label.

Years back I made a Civil War "hospital quilt" reproduction. (Well of course it was a reproduction; the Civil War has been over for 150 years. Ahem.)

The quilts were stamped with logos like this one so that it would be apparent that the quilt was taken from the hospital if ever one ended up in someone's home (or so I've read). I designed this image, along with three others, to be penciled on to the fabric and then traced over with MicroPens. Lolita has the selling rights to this grouping of logos.

New packaging for a new batch of plantation dolls, for Lolita's shop.

What a lot of work; what pleasure to see them all lined up!

I've told countless people that I should have been born an assembly line.

I get blank stares.

I went online and looked up plantation records. I put real names, age when possible, and locales (but not the name of the plantation owners) on the packaging to drive home that these dolls represent real people in history.

Slaves were not only sold (often to pay toward outstanding debts) they were also given as wedding gifts. I can't imagine ripping a family apart all for the sake of giving a plantation owner's offspring one (or more) as wedding gifts.

Lolita has selling rights for the dolls.

A local Amish man made this quilt frame for me, to my measurements. It is 55" wide. Hospital quilts were 4 feet by 8 feet to accommodate hospital cots.

Thanks, John! You do such lovely work!!

My Sarah Cole Resin Hitty that I painted is named Seraphina. She sits at my dining table windowsill. Every day I see her and she brings a smile to my face.

Flannel "ears" on a teething ring. Baby grabs the ears and chomps on the ring.

Brian is my nephew-in-law. He loves to grill. They live in Orange County, CA, and have a cabin in Big Bear. (His wife is the baby in the photo with my sister.)

For his birthday I embroidered these towels from Hobby Lobby. A very good deal if you use the 40% off coupon. Embroidery is the back stitch, over penciled-on letters.

(I love pencils.)

This Norwegian sampler was originally meant to be needlepointed. In the 1970s I needlepointed a few of them. This time I did it in cross stitch for Brian and Michele, since we (Michele) are descendants of Scandinavian background (Sweden and Norway). I love it; I'd forgotten how lovely it looks. I want to make one for myself. You never know, people marry at all ages. HA!