Another Project.....

I am working on a bulletin board for our women's organization at Church,

The Relief Society, and I wanted to post some before and after pictures....

So, here are the items I will be working with and items I have made previously that 

are similar to what I will use for the board.....

I want to produce a crazy quilt look around the edges 

and have a simpler look in the 

center because it will be covered with ... bulletins!!!

I want to add some French Ribbon flowers to the corners and 

give it a feminine vintage feel. This is a
chipboard heart box lid I made years ago when 

I was learning to make these flowers.

The box lid usually sits atop a treadle sewing machine that has a special

family story attached to it. That will be for another post.

Looking at these pictures I took last spring, I see that my
bronze fairy charm has flown! 

I will search for her and get her back home!

This is my Quiet Room (we call it that to encourage quiet behavior in here, 

which also includes musical instrument playing....) 

where this Treadle Sewing Machine lives,

 along with an old rocking chair from my paternal Grandfather's home

and a little red child's rocking chair from the home I grew up in. 

Most of my siblings and I, as well as all my 5 children and their cousins, 

47 cousins, and most of their many children....

 rocked in this chair when they were small. It makes my heart sing

to have it in my home and see little people rocking in it.

These are a few other items I have made with French Ribbon flowers.

It is interesting that the True French Ribbon, the made in France Wired Ribbons, 

are more delicate and prettier to me than the wired ribbon.

I prefer the finished product when I have used those.

I will most likely use a combination 

of them for this project.

I have been "collecting" cream and off white, and white fabrics 

for years.....with an idea in my head to make a memory quilt....

so I am using some of that fabric for this project. 

I am going to try to do a simpler version.

I will show the After results when I get it finished!

Happy Hearts Week to you!