Thursday, February 26, 2015

Spring, Easter,Primitive hand dyed trim bag give-away, enter now!

I have been busy once again dyeing trims. Lots of spring colors for this trim bag and of course we need to give a couple away!
This a beautiful assortment of hand dyed trims, lace, ric rac and buttons. Spring colors assortment, great for Easter too.
It includes:
Hand dyed purple wood button assortment. 8 buttons.
Hand dyed pastel violet plastic buttons. 10 buttons
Hand dyed forget me not blue buttons. 8 buttons.
4 wood buttons, 1 butterfly, 2 red floral and one violet floral pattern.
3 skeins of my hand dyed floss, 5 yards each. Forget me not, Primitive Lavender and Champagne Blush.
hand dyed bias tape(makes great ragged edge ribbons, instructions included. One yard medium green, 2" wide. One and one half yards each of faded sage and rustic (faded and speckled in spots for a primitive look) faded violets, one inch wide.
2 yards each of hand dyed cotton tape (great for needle books and draw strings, in pastel peach, pink and lavender.
Hand dyed ric rac, 1/2", 2 yards of each color. Six pastel colors included, assortment may vary.
3 yards lavender 1/4" ric rac.
One yard Lavender cluny lace ric rac.
One yard of 1/2" cotton twill tape dyed antique champagne.
Muslin 6x8" draw string bag included!
Each trim is in it's own zip lock plastic bag.
These trim bags are $19.99 in my ebay store.




Rules: You must be a follower at the right by faithful friends(I love that description!), click to follow. You MUST post a comment here.
Post on your blog or facebook and get 25 more entries. Send a friend to follow and get 50 more entries! You ought to see the box of names I have to draw from on these drawings.
Lets give a couple away. Lets give one away on March 15th. Then I will draw another name on March 31st.
You must check back to see if you are a winner. You must follow! I don't have time to track you down.
Good luck to all!!

I will have 32ct hand dyed Belgian linen available for sale next week. 1/2 yard $24. Full yard $45. Wholesale to the public prices. Stay tuned.
Nancy

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Trim bag winners!!

I did a post yesterday morning and then got real busy. I didn't check the post as I never do. I thought it was odd that I didn't get any comments....and then I checked just now and the post didn't show. Gotta love blogger....

So....we have two lucky winners for the Primitive trim bags.
Another great Primitive trims bag, different from my first bag.It includes:
A muslin draw string bag
2 yards hand dyed dirty tan chenille trim, nice and thick.
3 yards 3/16" natural cotton tape, perfect for ties. I have hand dyed(really!) cotton cord and put it on spools for you. Two yards of each color. Two thicknesses, one thin and one thicker.
Natural thick cotton cord for drawstrings, 5 yards.

A great selection of bias tape in several widths. A GREAT IDEA!!! Look at the photos....you can see how I took scissors and cut it into different widths. Then you can ruffle and make a ragged edge (instructions included) for great primitive ribbons and ties!
2 yards white
2 yards each of two different stripes
2 yards hand dyed rainbow seersucker, my favorite!
3 yards navy blue wide
1 yard dark brown
2 yards tan
One large rusty safety pin
Hand dyed wood buttons:
2 red hearts, 2 brown hearts, 2 blue bird houses, 2 blue flowers, 3 green turtles, 2 brown bunnies, 8 assorted shades of brown, 1 large tan
Natural wood buttons: One spool button, 1 butterfly, one sunflower, 2 turtles, 2 bunnies, 4 hearts 2 stars, 2 flowers
4 brass charms

Each trim set is in a zip plastic bag. LOTS of goodies in this bag!










The lucky winners are:
Pepper Stitcher, and Deborah Lynch
Congratulations!
Please email me at nbelgian@aol.com

New Hand Carved frame for my sampler

I finally found the time to take some photos of the hand carved frame I did for my Youth's Flowery Season sampler. I copied the antique frame I have and I am pleased with the results. My son made the frame for me. I need a slightly larger than 16 x 20 frame. Carving took a week but was well worth it.

I am working on a different carving pattern for the next sampler  and finding all those hours to carve can be a challenge around here. Wish me luck! lol

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!
Nancy

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Primitive trim bag #2 and a give-away!

Lets have another trim bag give-away.....
Here is the 2nd Primitive trim bag I just put together.




 Another great Primitive trims bag, different from my first bag.
It includes:
A muslin draw string bag
2 yards hand dyed dirty tan chenille trim, nice and thick.
3 yards 3/16" natural cotton tape, perfect for ties. I have hand dyed(really!) cotton cord and put it on spools for you. Two yards of each color. Two thicknesses, one thin and one thicker.
Natural thick cotton cord for drawstrings, 5 yards.

A great selection of bias tape in several widths. A GREAT IDEA!!! Look at the photos....you can see how I took scissors and cut it into different widths. Then you can ruffle and make a ragged edge (instructions included) for great primitive ribbons and ties!
2 yards white
2 yards each of two different stripes
2 yards hand dyed rainbow seersucker, my favorite!
3 yards navy blue wide
1 yard dark brown
2 yards tan



One large rusty safety pin
Hand dyed wood buttons:
2 red hearts, 2 brown hearts, 2 blue bird houses, 2 blue flowers, 3 green turtles, 2 brown bunnies, 8 assorted shades of brown, 1 large tan
Natural wood buttons: One spool button, 1 butterfly, one sunflower, 2 turtles, 2 bunnies, 4 hearts 2 stars, 2 flowers
4 brass charms
Available in my ebay store at $19.99 or email me direct to purchase, nbelgian@aol.com


Each trim set is in a zip plastic bag. LOTS of goodies in this bag!






Lets give away 2 of these great Primitive trim bags! Two lucky winners will be drawn on Valentine's Day. Enter now!

Rules: You must post a comment here.
You must be a follower at the right, click on faithful friends to follow.
Post on your blog or facebook and get 25 entries. Send a friend to follow my blog and get 50 more entries!

Now I need to get back to packing all these bags!!!
Good luck to all who enter.
Nancy

New Halloween Trim Bag and a give-away! Enter now!

I am still swamped designing custom mottoes and stitching them for my regular customers. I have never worked so hard as I have this last month trying to keep up with these orders. Trying to fit 6 hours of stitching in each day has been the ultimate challenge. This last gal changed the Scotland the Brave pattern I designed for her....and then she wanted a tartan plaid border stitched around it! The price just doubled when she added that element. I am at the point where I am going to say no to the next custom order....and take a breather and get back to what needs to be done around here. I am carving another fancy frame and have designed another pattern for another frame. I need to get that done in the next couple weeks.

I am putting together my second Primitive trim bag and that will be available later today along with a give away.

My customers keep asking me for more Halloween trim bags. It seems like I just can't keep them in stock each year as they sell out so quickly. This year I added a few different things.....
It includes hand dyed black cotton tape in 1/8" and 1/4", brown, pumpkin spice  and black 1/2" ric rac, orange and black 1/8" mini ric rac, pumpkin, spice and black hand dyed chenille trim wound on bobbins, 3 colors of hand dyed buttons: dark brown/black, grey and 2 shades of pastel pumpkin and orange. 3 yards of hand dyed black cluny lace. 2 yards of hand dyed cluny ric rac in grey and pastel pumpkin.Hand dyed wood buttons are bird houses, flower and a heart. 3 small black safety pins and 4 charms I hand pick from the above group. LOTS of goodies!!! Listed in my ebay store or order direct. email nbelgian@aol.com. They re $19.99.
Lets give a Halloween trim bag away!
Rules:
You must post a comment here. You must be a follower, click to follow at the right by faithful friends. Post on your blog or facebook and get 25 more entries. We always like to give lots of people a chance to enter.
Drawing to be February 28th. I ship world wide.
Good luck everyone!
Nancy

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

New Primitive trims bag full of goodies!

By request I have now included a primitive trims bag in my ebay store.





My newest Primitive grab bag of trims. It includes:
A  muslin draw string bag 5"x7" 
12 Wood buttons, 4 light, 4 medium, 4 dark
2 large Gingerbread buttons and 4 flower buttons.
Charm assortment includes:
3 made for you charms
2 clusters of silver finish sewing buttons
1, one inch brass skeleton key
1 brass heart charm with a flower
one copper heart charm
one brass dove charm
and one copper butterfly charm.
6 small brass bells
Cotton tape hand dyed  assortment includes 2 yards of 1/2" antique faded gold, 2 yards of caramel 3/16" tape, 2 yards of 1/8" champagne tape. 5 yards of natural 1/4" cotton tape.
2 yards natural cluny lace trim, 1/2" wide.
2 yards hand dyed cinnamon 1/2" cotton ric rac.
1 yard 1/2" hand dyed cluny lace in champagne
1 yard hand dyed cluny lace in caramel
1 yard hand dyed cluny ric rac in caramel
1 yard cotton and jute ric rac
2 yards hand dyed cinnamon vintage seam ribbon
3 yards hand dyed cotton chenille in caramel. A nice thick chenille.
 And a wonderful PRIMITIVE SHAGGY AND SPARSE CHENILLE TRIM, cotton, in natural, 5 yards.

The shaggy chenille trim would look great for lots of projects. I could see it stitched on as a primitive beard on a santa....it would make a great birds nest wound round and round....so many possibilities.
Available in my ebay store or you can always buy direct from me. $19.99 plus postage. In the states postage is $2. Check or paypal.
nbelgian@aol.com

I am still swamped with custom mottoes and hand carved frames. I am trying to add a new Halloween trims bag, hopefully later this week. Busy...busy....busy start to this new year. I hope all of you are having fun with new projects. I am designing new patterns for the elaborate carved frames and will start on another one tomorrow. I wish there were more hours in the day!

Thanks for stopping by!
Nancy