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Here are more buildings in the 2nd set of the North Pole Village. how can you pick your favorite? they are all so cute.
Here's the post office....gotta have that so Santa can get all those letters from the kiddos. i just had to stitch it in red, white and blue.
And the North Pole has a church also. i don't know what all that stuff on the front door is. i'm thinkin i should have just skipped that...but too late now.
Someone at http://www.designsbyjuju.com/ has quite an active imagination. wonder what is coming up next.
Stay tuned.
I finished the rest of the North Pole Village I set. i was getting a little disapointed when i got another house instead of a shop. but it is this cute A-frame house. i think one of the elves must live there. LOL
But all is not lost. there is the Sleigh Repair shop. of course, you have to have that...after all those stops on rooftops i imagine the sleigh rails get a bit worn. gotta love the little guys wrench...looks almost as big as he is.
And after all that work you need a little treat of Milk and Cookies. wouldn't it be nice if you could just go to town for a treat of milk and cookies and not have to bake the cookies yourself. in person, that giant cookie over the door has chocolate chips in it...but it doesn't show well in the picture.
Or, if milk and cookies didn't do it for you....how about some Ice Cream....yum.
And another favorite of mine (how many 'favorites' can you have?..LOL)...is the Egg Nog Pub. just adorable. can't you just picture little elves all lined up on the barstools? hahahahahaha
And that ends set 1. i've already finished the first one in set 2 and it is adorable, too.
Which is your favorite? i'm trying to think how to set these in a quilt....i really don't want to do the traditional rows of blocks...i need a village 'scene'. Any ideas? Hhhmmmm????
I managed to get 2 more blocks embroidered on the North Pole Village. you're gonna like these
Here is the reindeer barn. excuse the fuzzy picture.
And another favorite....the teddy bear factory. love how the fur around the bear is all straggly.
Gonna go play at my sister's for the rest of the week.
But i am taking my piecing machine so i can work on piecing some squares. see you next week.
Remember Christmas will be here soon.
I need a 12 step program...for quilters and/or embroiderers. i have dozens of UFOs already...but does that deter me? oh no...let's start another. LOL
Along with using up my old stash of fabric i have decided i need to use up my old stash of hundreds of spools of embroidery thread and use those embroidery designs that i keep buying. why are they so cute? i am weak. sigghhh!!
Anyway, i started the North Pole Village I.....i say 1 because i believe there might be a 2 and possibly a 3. i have about 30 designs. check out http://www.designsbyjuju.com/ her stuff is soooo cute... sign up for her newsletter...she has awesome sales quite frequently. sales like buy 1 set ($20) and get 2 sets free; buy 2 sets and get 8 sets free. crazy, i know...that's why i have a couple hundred sets of her designs. and once you are a regular customer you get free designs...can't beat that. i have all the north pole applique village sets...3 so far....so decided to get busy and put a few million more stitches on the embroidery machine.
So far i have made 5 blocks in the last 2 days. i just let them stitch while i am quilting. i am good at multi-tasking. LOL
Here is the Pie Shop
And the Elf School
Someone's house in the Village
The Sweet Shop
And the Toy Store....my favorite so far. i just had to put Winnie the Pooh on the door.
I got 3 of them done today so perhaps i can do 3 more tomorrow. who cares about those other 40 UFOs.....if i live long enough....they'll all get done.....some day. hahahahahahaha
I have a lot of Anita Goodesign embroidery CDs. i belonged to their club for 2 years and got 2 CDs every month. and both my sister and I spend a little money at the http://www.emblibrary.com/ online. they have some really cute stuff, too.
Do you have an embroidery machine? whose designs do you like best?
