What's On Your Needles - Shoe Holders

Do you have enough closet space? 

Does anyone? 

We used to. 

Really we did. 

Then we moved here to Raleigh.

It's a much smaller, nifty (town)house.

We "lost" a big walk-in closet.

A closet so big that my grown son, Jordan, jokingly asked 

if he could move in to that "room."

No big problem though. 

We gained an attic for storage of the non-essential, day to day things that 

used to live in our walk-in.

We also lost wall space where our shoe racks had hung.

For a year+ now, our shoes have been scattered,

smothered and covered around our bedroom.

(Are ya hungry now?)

So I decided to utilize the space on the closet's louver doors!!!

Genius, yes?

I made a pattern. 

Well, really I just wrote the dimensions up. 

These shoe hangers have to fit in 12" wide spaces.

I then commenced to tearing fabric. 

I tear fabric for straight lines. 

Easier and much more accurate than cutting 'em.

Using all black and white fabric.

 

I made up how to construct these as I went along. 

Hopefully I can make the other 3 the same way. 

Yikes!

There's a slat of wood in a pocket at the top to help hold it flat. 

Drapery hooks are in the back to aid in hanging them 

over the old, broken over the door hangers. 

 

How do you like this fabric? 

My friend Tara mentioned that JoAnn Craft and Fabrics had Star Trek fabrics. 

I was having a fit to find an "excuse" to buy some.

Adding a bit of embroidery to jazz it up a bit. 

Using the 3 "official" uniform colors.

Did you know that the highest ranking Star Fleet Officers' uniforms were actually a green-yellow color?

The camera made them look golden!

Live long and Prosper. 

I gotta get back to assembling these shoe hangers before 

 forget how I did the first one!

What's On your Needles? Super Secret Stitching

 I love surprising folks with gifts. 

Especially gifts that I make.

It can be nerve racking though.

Will they like it?

Did I do a good job?

I belong to a world-wide embroidery group.

Several of us are participating in a grand swap.

We started with an embroidery on our own towel, table runner or apron.

Some stitchers picked designs that represented where they live - like New Zealand!!

Others choose one design for everyone and then customized it for the recipient.

That's what I did.

I used this pattern that 

I found this on doe-c-doe's blog long ago.

 

Then each of us mailed our towel off to the next on the list.

We embroidered on each piece as it came to us.

Here's how I started my towel.

Looks just like me, yes?

It was supposed to take a couple of months but as you know, crafty folks have stuff to do.

I am one of the guilty ones that held up the round robin of excellent stitchery!

Almost a year later, folks are getting their original works back.

This is the one I did for Pam aka KittyKill.

We share a love of wacky, supposed to be 

scary movies 

and all things Tiki and Psych!

  

This is what I crafted for my pal Lisa who LOVES tea!

This is her towel with others' stitcheries. 

The Bigfoot was customized on everyone's towel by Tara. 

I'm only giving you a glimpse of this one. 

This towel is for our group's founder.

I'm mailing it to her tomorrow.

It's finished.

I haven't looked at any pictures of my towels 

as they have been posted.

I love a surprise! 

Please check out my friends' blogs that I stealthily linked here. 

They write good stuff!