Spring is FINALLY here! Love seeing the Bradford Pear trees that have just exploded in the last week. In Oklahoma, we also have the ability to grow the azela shrub. Can't wait to see the azelas in bloom at one of the large local parks in the weeks to come. A favorite place for pics!

Speaking of pictures. Hope you are taking pictures of some of the projects you are working on. Not to just send them via social media, but as a reference for future projects. There is a number of ways to document what you make. If you are a scrapbooker, you'll have a darling album, all the right "stickers" and lots of fun decorations around a special picture of the outfit and hopefully a child wearing it! But for all of us who are not that well equipped to do that, you might think of some of these suggestions. 1) Have a special notebook/album to put your information in. 2) Take a picture of the garment w/without someone wearing it. Take a picture of the back as well as the front. 3) Have a sample of the fabric, trim, piping etc. you used in the construction. 4) Make a small copy of the pattern front of the pattern used and include it on the "page". 5) Document any hand or machine work you did on the garment. i.e. smocking plate design, shadow work pattern, etc. 6) Then make any comments of things you would change if you made the garment again. Even things you liked about the pattern. You never know when you may decide to make up that same pattern and it would be nice to know if a certain part of the construction process gave you a snag!

Let me know what you are working on for Easter. Email pics to sylvia@delicatestitches.com and we can include some of your master pieces on another Blog entry. Happy Stitching, Sylvia