Juju

I am a Christian wife and mother to a daughter age 32 & son age 29 along with his lovely wife. I am a new grandma to Zachary.

I love to crochet, quilt, create zentangle or fabric postcards, plastic canvas or felt christmas ornaments.

I have always want to learn to tat & have been studying online how to needle tat. I've found some tatting videos & have them posted on my pinterest account. So far I have learned the flower pendant & have been making earrings as Christmas presents for my 2 sisters, nieces & daughters. I still want to learn how to use a shuttle, but needle tatting is easier to start learning. If you tat, any helpful needle patterns will be nice.

My favorite colors are blue, green, grape purple, dark reds-jewel tone colors. Although I was born in August & my birthstone is peridot, I love the blue topaz of December. I love the blue/green combination.

I love to crochet & am looking for neat patterns to make for swaps. I love working with cotton yarns & threads. I have found some nice free patterns & have listed them on my pinterest account.

I have a quaker parrot& my daughter has a sun conure. I enjoy looking for bird print fabrics or bird embroidery/appligue patterns online

My favorite swaps are things that I can handmake to share. I mail things directly at the postoffice & try to send out as soon as the swap is assigned. I rate as soon as the mail arrives.

Christian worship,country, instrumental music by Jesse Cook

mentalist, CSI, Castle, but mostly as background as I sew or crochet

Currently working on crochet cotton dish cloths as gifts. Also working on some plastic canvas quilt block ornaments for gifts

• PIecing quilt blocks & quilting. Currently working on a strippy string quilt, finished one strippy top & have started another, several scrap quilts & I love the star whimsy quilt from the book, Star Savvy lap from fat's. I have completed one top & will do two more for my two sisters using civil war reproductions.

• My latest interest is wool applique & learning wool rug hooking. So far, I have only made sunflower, stars, snowmen & mitten ornaments. One of my favorite past times is hunting goodwill/thrift stores for 100 % wool skirts to take apart & then felt.

• I love to make Christmas ornaments & use plastic canvas, wool felt, or crochet & in the future will also use some tatting.

• Handmade ornament themes I use are snowmen, angels, sheep, penquins, gingerbread men or women using either felt,plastic canvas or crochet.

• I love to make table runners, bookmarks, doilies, coasters, drink glass cozies & snowflakes out of #10 crochet thread. I also use #3 crochet cotton thread & bamboo thread. Dishcloths using 100% cotton yarn, Scarves using Simply Soft yarn & amigurumis using any yarn.. Currently working on a ballerina mouse doll for my daughter-in-law's niece.

• Fabric postcards, locker rug hooking, fabric twist bowls, plastic canvas Christmas ornaments/magnets, doll making.

• Zentangle postcards & mailart.

• Christmas ornaments ( favorites include Jim shore's quilted ornaments)
• jeweled tone glass angels.
• Snowmen (My snowman collection stays out year round
• I love dolls:
  • Kokeshi
  • peg/clothespin
  • String dolls
  • worry dolls (I like the look, but not the worrying
  • flower petal dresses dolls
  • small dolls like barbie, etc from happy meal prizes
  • smurfs happy meal prizes
• map post cards
• tin banks shaped like vehicles
• Food tins
• buttons, buttons, buttons...:D
• I can use keychain rings or recycle old keyrings.
• mint tins to recycle
• scrabble tiles or monopoly game pieces
• any game pieces or charms
• small black shank buttons, 7mm or 9mm safety eyes for amigurumi eyes
• animal eyes, noses
• colored threads such as mettler
• embroidery floss
• blank note cards
• used postage stamps
• cute socks *
• cute coin/pencil pouches
• ricrac, tiny to jumbo
• fabric, at least 1.5 square.
• I also use fabric strips at least 1.25 x whatever
• Themes I like :
• houses
• foxes
• sheep
• lambs,
• Noah's Ark,
• cupcake,
• anything sewing/quilting related,
• Mary Englebrite,
• dots, swirls
• monkey
• gingerbread men/women
• snowmen/women

Thanks to @Choke I have started collecting map postcards. So far, I have: 2 different Michigan, Mackinac Island, Kentucky, the world & atlas hemisphere South Dakota from ReneeK Ohio

Please use real stamps to send packages or envelopes.

I do NOT like anything gory, gross or creepy.

red fox postcard origami grace [recieved] send zentangled postcard to Patty {sent] ohio postcard from Susieq11 send zentangled postcard to Origami Grace (sent)

playing christian swappers Oct 7th bingo