PRIM PATCHWORK QUILTED HEN & EGGS Welcome Prim Friends, and thank you for stopping by to view my new Prim Offerings. Here we have a Primitive Folk Art Patchwork Chicken Hen Doll with her Eggs. This piece would display nicely as a centerpiece, shelf sitter, or placed on a bureau, table or halltree. The hen measures 9" tall, 10" wide and 17" long and would be perfect for your farmhouse kitchen and would also make a wonderful house-warming or bridal shower gift.The Chicken's body is sewn from a sculpted and pieced patchwork of different fabrics; Black and White gingham in large checks and small checks, a black and white tiny lined print and barn red cotton solid. The facial markings are cut from barn red cotton and adhered to the head while the cone and wattle are made separately from looped strips of barn red cotton and sewn into the seams of the head. The sewn-in wings are quilted with sewn-in strips of matching colored coordinating fabric are frayed along the edges, wet and dried in a dryer to make them curly. The fluffy tail is formed from several black and white checked coordinating fabric strips, wet and dried curly and sewn into the seams of the rear of the chicken. Black beads were stitched on for the eyes. Wooden chicken eggs were painted ivory and placed in the nest of natural excelsior along with the hen adhered onto a painted cardboard base. I have given the Chick a primitive tag that I have coffee-stained and inked the edges with brown pigma ink and adhered a green print background with an image of a crowing rooster with his nesting hen in the background that says "Fresh Eggs". The hang tag is attached to the tail with a rusty safety pin. The mate to this hen, the Prim Patchwork Rooster Makedo, is offered in another listing. This piece was lovingly made by me using a pattern designed by Annie's Primitives.This design will come to you dated, signed and tagged with my own label "Collectibles by Joan" which states "The Handcrafting and Time Invested in this Piece are its Own Mark of Quality". Price - $50.00
PRIM POSIE DRIED FLORAL WALL POCKET Welcome Prim Friends and thank you for stopping by to view my new Spring Offerings. This is a sweet Prim Spring Dried Floral Appliqued Wall Pocket that is my own design that measures 8" tall, 4" wide and 1" deep. The pocket was cut from periwinkle blue felt and was blanket stitched by hand with burgundy embroidery floss around all edges.Colorful florals were cut from burgundy, pink and blue felt and blanket stitched onto the pocket with white embroidery floss.Green floss is hand embroidered for the stems and leaves. The tulip and the smaller flowers have yellow french knot centers and the large pink posie has a tiny white button center. "Posies" is embroidered with back stitching in burgundy floss. Various matching dried florals fill the wall pocket in blue, burgundy, pinks and green. The hanger is a loop formed with natural jute twine. This piece will come to you dated, signed and tagged with my own label from my smokefree sewing studio. Price - $10.00
	PRIM VALENTINE DOVE DUO NODDERS Welcome Prim Friends, and thank you for stopping by to view my new Valentine Offerings. Here we have a set of two Primitive Folk Art Nodder Valentine Doves. This gathering would display nicely as a centerpiece on a table, halltree or bureau or as a shelf sitter. The smaller dove measures 9" tall and 13"wide and the larger dove measures 11" tall and 15" wide.I have created this set in the primitive fashion to give it that time-worn look. Both doves are sewn from muslin and tightly stuffed, with needle-sculpted wings and tails. The separate wings are stitched onto their bodies and then stained them with an aging solution of dark coffee and vanilla and baked them in the oven. Several layers of crackle medium were applied before the last coat of antique white paint. The crackled finish reveals the staining underneath and provides a wonderful aged appearance of peeling paint. Cinnamon was rubbed into the paint for a grungy look. To complete the nodders, each dove is sewn onto his own rusty olde bedspring. Two intersecting hearts are sewn from muslin with exterior seams and paint-washed red, baked, sanded and coated with a grungy mixture of coffee-vanilla-cinnamon and baked again. The hearts dangle from the doves beaks by way of rusty twisted wire. I have given this Dove Duo a primitive tag aged with the coffee-vanilla-cinnamon stain, topped with a nostalgic print of a vintage Greeting Card showing a vintage lady posing by a large heart that says "To My Love". I have bordered it with Red Glass Glitter for a bit of sparkle.The doves have been lovingly made by me from a pattern created by Simple Country Blessings with the intersecting hearts as my own design.This piece will come to you signed with my own label. Price - $39.99
PRIM GRUNGY HEART TRIO BOWL FILLERS Welcome Prim Friends, and thank you for stopping by to view my new Valentine Offerings. Here we have a set of three Primitive Grungy Olde Valentine Heart Bowl Fillers. They would display nicely as a gathering in a basket as shown or as a hanging arrangement on the wall. Each one measures 12" tall and 5"wide and 2" deep.I have created this gathering in the primitive fashion to give them that time-worn look. The prim shaped hearts are sewn from muslin with reversed stitched seams and stuffed with fiberfill. I then used red, pale pink and antique white paint-wash for each one, antiqued the edges in dark umber, baked and stained them with a grungy solution of coffee-vanilla-cinnamon, baked again, and dusted with cinnamon. Curled rusty wire with rusty bells was used for the hanger. Each heart has a banner made from aged, torn muslin with pressed on sayings...."Live Well", "Love Much" and "Laugh Often" which are pinned on with rusty safety pins. A bunch of fragrant Sweet Annie combined with Country Red Pip Berry sprigs is tied and inserted under each banner. I have given this gathering a primitive tag aged with the coffee-vanilla-cinnamon stain topped with a nostalgic print of a vintage greeting card showing a vintage lady posing by a big heart that says "To My Love". I bordered the edges with Red Glass Glitter for a bit of sparkle.This piece has been lovingly made by me from a pattern created by Old Road Primitives.This design will come to you from my smoke free sewing studio tagged with my own label, signed and dated. Price - $24.00