What The World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love.

 Merry Christmas to Everyone in the world. May the world have a prosperous and a Happy and Healthy New Year💖

I was lying in bed in the wee hours of the morning and started thinking and singing to myself in my head.

I thought of a song that is so fitting for this time of year and also for the way the world is today DEC 26, 2021.

There is something that the world and the human race need right now, and we need a lot of it. That is love, love for each other and our pets and ourselves. Love for the human race and to try to love life as we know it for now. What comes up goes down and what goes down comes up. This too shall pass. 

What I was thinking about in the wee hours of the morning was a song sung by Dionne Warwick in 1966.

Composed by Burt Bachararch and lyrics written by Hal David Sung by Jackie Deshannon and then by Dionne Warwick. I never heard it sung by Jackie Deshannon myself only by Dionne Warwick.

I am a big fan of Dionne Warwick to this day. She sang many hits like Do you know the way to San Jose and Where is love etc. Great Voice and Great Singer. I had most of her records and albums. Look her up if you are not familiar with her. Speaking of love where is it?

We need each other to stand tall together and not apart. We need to help one another and be strong for each other. To protect each other. To come together and love each other and our pets and belongings and to cherish what we have even if it is just a little that we have.

There are evil things and evil people in our world. Stand up to the evil and bring in the good.

When we are standing in the darkness all we have to do is turn on the light. Let's let our light shine bright for each other to see the lighted path to goodness and happiness for all man and woman and child and pet kind.

Here are the lyrics to the song that I was thinking about in the wee hours of the morning. 

What the World needs now.

What the World needs now is love, Sweet Love

It's the only thing that there's just too little of

What the World needs now is love, Sweet Love,

No not just for some but for everyone.

 

Lord, we don't need another mountain,

There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb

There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,

Enough to last till the end of time.

 

What the World needs now is love, Sweet Love

It's the only thing that there's just too little of

What the World needs now is love, Sweet Love,

No, not just for some but for everyone.

 

Lord, we don't need another meadow

There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow

There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine

Oh listen, lord, if you want to know.

 

What the World needs now is love, Sweet Love It's the only thing that there's just too little of What the World needs now is Love, Sweet Love, No, not just for some but for everyone. No, not just for some, oh, but just for everyone.

 

Working with Screen Printing

Hello all ye crafty folk,

I have been crafting and using some screen printing designs. I had found a few old tote bags hanging around my house. So I decided to screen print on the front of one of them. I use screens from a company called Screen Sensation and I really love their products. I have many screen designs and really like the concept of screen printing on fabric or paper or wood etc.

Here is a picture of one of the screens. I am only showing one side as I am waiting on a few more screens and want to use one for the other side however it has not arrived yet and hoping it will soon.

Take a gander at this one that I did use. A bit on the Gothic side but very stunning.

These are a pair of leggins I printed out with zodiac screens.  I used zodiac signs that represent my family. Husband and children. Have a look.

  I am just starting to get back into crafting so watch this blog for things I am making or things that I have made.
Happy crafting
Fawna

Haven't been here in a while.

Hello out there,

It has been a while since I have blogged here. I have been going on vacations these past months. I have not been crafting. With that said I do have crafts that I will be doing. At this time I am sick with a rotten cold. Got from my last vacation to New Hampshire USA. I have had this cold a week tomorrow but today I do finally feel like some what of a human again. I have still been keeping my self busy in between lying down to catch a rest. This cold is in my chest, throat, and noise. Makes me a bit short winded.  I did manage to sew up a few small items. I made some pads for my puppies when I go to the store and put them in the cart so as to their little toes do not go through the rung of the shopping cart.

I made them out of some red fleece that I had left over from another project. I used the pads from the inside of their old car seats. I did buy new ones as the old ones had the metal holder sticking out.
I used them once with out being covered and they fit in the shopping cart pretty well. Some places that I have been to this year do allow pets to come into the store. I always check first to see if there is a no pet sign before I bring them in.

In New Hampshire they are not to pet friendly. You cannot bring your dog on the beach and some campgrounds do not allow campers to bring their dogs. I stayed at a lovely campground and they did allow pets. However there are Doggy day cares around and one can leave their pet with them. Next time I go I will try it out as I do want to go on some whale watches and the beach etc. We did walk on the board walk with the dogs down at the beach and it was wonderful. I do like the area very much and look forward to go back again next year.

I also went to Virginia and North Carolina they are both very pet friendly and that works out great for me. Sorry I do not have any pictures at this time. I forgot my camera both trips and did not get any great pictures of beautiful beaches. Next  time I will place it first in my duffel bag.

Thank you for reading if you have
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Fawna

Faux Quilted Bag

Hello all you lovely crafters, quilters

A while back I made a tote bag to carry my crafting supplies. I especially made it for my Crafter's Companion Ultimate tool. If you are not familiar with that. The Ultimate tool is a paper scoring tool. It is used to make cards and boxes for gifts etc.
I made my tote out of fat quarters and I added pockets to the inside and the outside. I also embroidered a few flowers and the named my tote My crafting tote.

Why I call this faux quilting is because I did not use quilt blocks. I made a fabric sandwich with batting sewed each side down by measuring out lines and making squares and then sewed it down with my sewing machine. Once I had that all done I but it together. Here is a picture of my quilt.
I also made a pocket on the outside and one on the inside. The one on the outside I embrodered the words My crafting tote and used a design from my brother scan n cut zodiac signs Gemini.

Here is a picture of the tote filled with the Ultimate tool and supplies.

Thank you for reading my blog if you have.
Happy Crafting,
Fawna

Motor bike and pinup girl Thank you Sarah Payne Quilter & Screen Sensation

Hello all you awesome crafters,

I am updating my Motorbike tee shirt.
I used the screen sensation stamp system to stamp out the word Vintage underneath the rubber burn of the motorbike. I used a different alphabet stamp from Recollections stamp products. I do have the screen sensation alphabet stamp set but they are way to large for my purpose. However I did use the Screen Sensation New silver ink in the large pot.

There are many ways I could have put this word on. One way would have been to cut it out in silver vinyl  or made my own Vintage word stamp with my Brother Scan n Cut. I could have also embroidered it on with my Singer embroidery machine. There are many other ways as well. My choice was to use the screen sensation. I also used a wonderful water pen to achieve my finished work on the word Vintage.
In picture one you will see the vintage word only printed out on the tee shirt. Notice the transparency of the word.

In picture two you will see the word again but this time I went back and filled in by hand using the water brush and the screen sensation new silver ink.

In picture three you will see the water brush that I used.The water brush product is made by Art. I used a round brush. You fill it with water give it a squeeze fill the tip with the water and pick up your paint or medium you are using. I found the flow with the screen sensation ink worked much better then using a regular dry paint brush. These brushes are excellent for using with water color paints and sumi ink to do sumi painting. Very nice indeed.

I have been working on something for my husband, in between making my cushion cover for the 16x16 cushion I am making. I have been doing a bit of screen sensation. I took one of my husbands tee shirts and printed on it. Still in the making just letting it dry and then I will iron it to set in the design. When I have it ready I will be stamping on to it the word Vintage. As this is a vintage motor bike and pin up featured from the 1950's. Thanks to a great product called Screen Sensation.

I did see it demonstrated by a lovely British Lady Sarah Payne. Sarah is a quilter and also a demonstrator of products on a show called Create and Craft. I am following her lead her. She demonstrated this design and I was intrigued and had to have it. Here is my rendition of her creation.

Sarah is a renowned quilter and sewest.  She has her own usb on quilting and sewing. I endorse her usb products and her creations. Thank you Sarah for your creativity and the knowledge that you share with the world. You can find her on facebook and youtube.

Thank you for reading if you have.
Happy Crafting,
Fawna

Having fun with my Brother Scan n Cut

Hello all you crafty lovers,

I was finally making a project that I put on hold. I was late at giving my hubby his Father's day gift. Last year I made him a glass plate with a duck design via my favorite magic tool. My Brother Scan n Cut. I will show you a picture of that when I get a chance. I also made him a card with a duck aperture.  this year I did not make him a card but I did make a coffee mug. Well by that I mean I cut out a design and a sentiment in vinyl. I purchased a ceramic mug and then just added the vinyl.
I used vinyl from Brother and made for the Brother Scan n Cut.

Here is a picture of the mug.

Here is a picture of last years Father's day gift and card. Funny I used the same vinyl for the duck design as I did for the Dachshund.    I used three d foam sticky to raise the ducks off of the card. I also made the matching envelope. The Brother scan n cut is really just a magical tool. I really feel that the sky is the limit.

Thank you so much for stopping by and reading.

Have a crafty creation day,

Fawna

My attempt at making a quilted designed pillow

Hello everyone out there,

Update the pillow is done and here is how it really came out.  I did an envelope back and it really came out very nice and tight no showing of the back of the inside pillow.
Happy Crafting,
Fawna

 Hello again,
Update on my cushion. I decided to change the color of the center of my cushion from Navy blue to white. I found that it looked much brighter and that my design showed up much brighter then on the dark navy blue fabric.
I now have the front sewed together and I am ready to make the backing for the cushion. I will be doing that tomorrow. Night time now and I am done crafting for the day. I think it came out pretty good considering my quilt squares were hard to match up. Not dead nuts but looks good and has a 2d-3d appearance. I cannot wait till it is completed. When it is I will add a picture of the finished cushion.
Without further ado Here is the front of my cushion.

Hello there,
Today I am going to share with you a project that I am working on. I am trying to make a quilted design pillow/cushion. I am using a 16x16 inch pillow and I am making a cover for it. The quilt pieces that I am using are vintage at this point. They are over 25 years old. I was originally planning on making a bed quilt. I think it was for a full size bed. I started out hand cutting the pieces. Navy blue for one set of squares and white with navy blue starts for the second set of squares and it would have been alternated between the two fabrics. I had a burgundy fabric for the backing of the quilt.
I was to hand stitch all the pieces together then sew the batting/wading and back side together. I never did pick out my sash color for around the quilt. Needless to say it never did make it into this world.

Instead I have taken some of the pieces and machined sewed them together to form a frame around the center design. The center at present is a piece of the navy blue fabric that I had for the squares of the quilt. I am not sure at this point if I purchased a navy blue set of cotton cheap bed sheets and cut it up for the quilt pieces. I had made navy blue curtains from sheets for matching with the quilt.

The piece of fabric is 111/8x111/8 inches. On the diagonal top left corner to bottom right corner it is 171/8 inches. Set of squares top bottom and sides are 165/8 long both the top and the bottom. The sides are 10 inches each set left and right sides. The top pieces consist of 5 squares and the side consist of 3 squares.

The center design is created with a screen printing product call Screen Sensation. The designs are a map of a zodiac birth chart and a zodiac sign Gemini. The screen sensation product also has inks that you use to do the screen printing. I used a Pearlescent white color and a copper color on navy. In some respects I like it but then I think a white background with a dark color would be better and the design would stand out more. I could use white with navy blue ink for the birth chart and maybe gold ink for the zodiac sign. I am also planning on doing a design on the navy blue squares. Not really sure about it yet.
With that said here is a picture of my pillow top so far. I do have decide on the design for the navy blue squares and  than sew it together.  Add the back pieces of the star fabric and make the back with an envelope back opening.
Here is the front so far.

 Thank you for looking and reading if you have. If you wish to leave a comment please do.
Happy Crafting,
Fawna