This months challenge was to pose about what showers, such as baby or wedding showers, late snow showers, or "just because" gift showers for friends. What do you like to shower everyone with?
"Just Because" Showers -
I enjoy 'showering' friends with gifts throughout the year. One of the gifts I make and share are pincushions.
I love to use interesting bits of glassware and pottery found while thrifting to make pin cushions for quilting friends. One of these days I may make some for sale.This pincushion was just finished last week. It will be a birthday gift for one of my best friends. I used a single candleholder that I found at a local Goodwill store and a scrap of red material. There's room in it to hold thread and mini scissors while stitching.My little cross-stitch pieces or even ones that I've found in thrifting (like the ones shown in these pics), often find homes in my cards. Scrapbooking supplies frequently get put to use in the cards as well.
Silk flowers, hand-dyed motifs, ribbons, scrap-booking supplies and bids of old cutter quilts have all been used at one time or another.
I love it when my friends have babies because that means I can make something cute as a gift for them. Over the years I've made quilts for close friends and lately stuffed animals for babies and older siblings. But I always keep a stack of baby bibs that I've made as a gift, and will usually wrap up 6 or 7 of them for a gift.
Wednesday April 24
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