This summer I worked on a few 1/12th scale projects.  The first is a wingback chair that I re-covered in order to use it in a Santa's Cottage that I am building.  I designed the fabric and inset image myself and stitched it in the Bargello style on 48 count silk gauze.  I began stitching the chair at the beginning of July this year and just finished it on November 5th of this year.  The chair was one I had in my stash and wanted to re-cover.  I began the chair as part of a group challenge started by an online petit point group I belong to.  We were to design a fabric and re-cover any chair we wished then post the photos once finished.  It was great fun and I may someday, stitch another for Santa's Cottage using the same colors but a different Bargello pattern so that I don't get bored stitching the same thing over again.

​The second thing I worked on were some hand-made room screens in 1/12th scale.  I created 8 different designs and am selling them in their un-finished state here.  The example above is one that I made for my daughter Heather.  Eventually, it will go into an Oriental room box that I wish to make for her.  She chose the picture she wanted in the screen and I printed it onto cotton fabric before adding it to the screen.

Our club is looking to try and have in-person meetings starting in January if all goes well.  I look forward to seeing everyone then if we are able to resume the meetings.  In the meantime, what have you all been working on?  I would love to post a blog entry about your projects.  Please email me at the club's email address (omegaminimakers@gmail.com ) and let me know.  

This past year has been a year of many changes.  We learned to occupy ourselves while isolating to protect ourselves and others.  Several Miniature shows were held online for the first time and I was able to browse shows that I don't think I will ever get to in real-life.  Many of us with Miniature interests found this isolation time well spent doing miniatures or other crafts we may have neglected in past years.  I, myself, spent quite a bit of time finishing my Beachfront Mansion, building some House of Miniature kits and starting a 1/12th scale Santa's cottage.  I also spent a lot of time designing dollhouse rugs and stitching some of them.  I am hoping this winter will be just as productive.  

Unfortunately, we lost a couple of our members this year, one to a move out of province and the other passed away.  We will always remember the contributions of Sue B and Mary Carolyne C with fondness and gratitude. 

We began a new online chat group for the OMEGA members and have been giving ourselves somewhere to talk about what we are currently doing - or wish to do soon.  I hope to be able to hear from all of you in the chat group over the next year as it is very nice catching up with everyone.  Maybe we can actually have a real meeting this coming year!

My hope is that we can all have a better year in this coming year and that life may start getting back to normal. For now, I will wish everyone a Happy New Year and cross my fingers for a better year.  

This year, due to Covid 19, the Gathering was held online for the first time on October 2-4.  Our member Pat M joined in the fun and festivities.  I saved this post for now, when we didn't have a lot of news after Christmas.
Here is what Pat wrote in:

I had a wonderful time this weekend. It was great to connect with many
mini makers. My workshop project is finished and I have a new pattern
for my next project - a 1925 washing machine.

I have attached photos of all my gifts and my finished Hoosier cabinet
(workshop with Sandra Quigley).

Pat

What a wonderful collection of gifts Pat received!  As always, her work on her project is amazing with a lot of attention to detail.  Great job Pat!

I was browsing around the web this morning and came across a Bunk rug tutorial.  I read it through and it is a pretty good one that explains Bunka and how to make miniature rugs with it.  Here is the tutorial:  Bunka Rug   Seeing the tutorial reminded me of one that I made last year. The photo above shows my little rug along with the pattern I used.  This rug is a copy of one that I did Life-sized in Rug hooking many years ago when I was having my first child.  I graphed the rug out for Petitpoint, then decided to try to make it in Bunka.  I used the pattern on the bottom left and traced it onto some thin, iron on fabric.  The photo on the bottom right shows the rug finished, just before I trimmed off the edges of the fabric.
Bunka rugs are easy and fun to do and a great project for the upcoming long winter days.  Hope you have some fun with it!
​Stay safe, everyone.

This week I received a wonderful package from Marg L that she sent out to everyone in our group.  In this package were some supplies for making little flowers.  It was a terrific surprise to open my mailbox and see this envelope.  I raced into the house and opened it right away!  I haven't had a chance to start my flowers but Pat M. did hers and sent in this photo.
Here is her description of the photo:

"This is a photo of the chair and foot stool that I recovered for the shabby chic house.  The flowers are from our "kit" that Marg sent out. I found the water jug pattern on Pinterest. I used moss for leaves, collected from the cottage this summer."

The chair, ottoman, water jug and flowers look great Pat!  What have you done with your flowers?  Send me some photos and I can put them up here.

Missing all of you, hope to see everyone soon...