A Sneak Peak For Spring and a Contest!

I know, I KNOW, it’s only January!  We’re in the middle of winter and Spring seems soooo far away.

But for me, I have to get myself thinking Spring, because it’s time to get those new spring designs out there so that YOU can start thinking Spring.

Here’s my latest, newest design for Spring….

You can see it’s still in the stitching stage.  I will attach those little flowers and then figure out what kind of tongues I will attach on the ends. 

It’s going to be a beauty! 

I have a really cute Easter design that I’ll work on after this one.

I know I should be working on the Easter one, but when I sketched this one out, I was just too excited to get this one started so I put the Easter one aside. 

Here’s the initial sketch/doodle of the design as it came into my head ..

This is just a little 3” x 4” piece of scrap paper.  I tend to grab whatever is closest to me to draw on when an idea comes into my head.

So even though I’m working on this really cute Easter design, I kept thinking about this quick sketch and wondering/pondering if I could actually get the rain to look like rain using stitches.

It kept bugging me until I finally decided to just do it because otherwise my heart would not be in the cute Easter design simply because I rushed through it just so that I could work on the umbrella design.

It’s tough to not make myself insane so as much as I hate to put work aside, unfinished, I knew I had to in this case.

Ok, so here’s the contest ….

I need a name for this penny rug table runner.  I do have one in mind, but it would be nice to hear some suggestions from you readers.

So, take a close look at this new but unfinished design and if a clever name comes into your head, let me know!  Either leave the name suggestion in the comments or email me at cathspennies@gmail.com.

If I use the name that you’ve suggested,  you’ll get the pattern, free!

There’s no real deadline other than when the time comes for me to print this pattern, probably next week, I’ll have to make the decision.

 

Happy Day everyone!