It looks just like a baby chick doesn't it? It's not though. It's going to be part of a little embroidered piece I'm working on.
We are all about the colour at the moment...colour for fences...& excitingly colour in the garden too. I'm going out to the nursery with Trace to check out plants this morning.
Mucho excitement.
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Taking a few slow & small stitches. I've been procrastinating with this one for far too many months!
It's light & airy & delicate and it seems lately I've been more about the speed so this has been "back-burnered" more than once.
Time to get on with it.
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I wasn't quite ready to pack away the remaining pony fabric.
Words scrawled by me & then embroidered using two strands of floss. Stem & chain stitches...play to your strengths I say.
I've never upholstered anything in my life so it's absolutely the have a crack make it up as you go along type of thing & really more for decoration than feet which is a bit daft...
Made for someone very special who occasionally needs a little reminder. xx
Mucho excitement. We will be the most organised house in Melbourne next year...ahem.
The piece I stitched (which now resides with Rita in mini-quilt form) is on the cover of the Notebook diary for 2011.
The floral spray was taken from a vintage pillow case & then stitched by me (under the influence of Ike Rosen).
I will be gifting these for Christmas...mothers, sisters, aunties...look out.
PS: A big giant thank you to all the lovely folk who left me gorgeous comments on the calendar post. I had such a great time making it & utterly thrilled that so many of you enjoyed it too. x
This is the finished mini for The Downunder Doll Quilt Swap organised by Kate.
The centre panel is embroidered using stem, chain stitch & a fair few frenchies too. You don't see much stumpwork about on blogs so I thought I'd break a bit of that out too.
The outside 3D border/quilty bit is based on the scrappy number I picked up at the antique shop.
I really hope my partner likes it.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone.
Wonking it up. I'm usually not good at wonk with hand work. My stitches usually end up even despite my best wonky efforts.
I've found the key to the wonk & thought you might enjoy being let in on the secret.
Hold your work at arm's length.
Lovely, lovely space (I've fallen quite in love - can you tell) right here.
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I like to stitch.
I like things to be useful.
Maybe you'd like to stitch with me? We'll work on a few basic stitches & then make an "x" bookmark to take home.
Maybe there's something else I've stitched that you like the look of? I can help you with that too.
Maybe you'd just like to come & have a natter & French Knot for three hours? Fine, great, love to see you. Just so you know you'll still get a little kit & supplies so plenty of bang for your buck.
It's all organised by Notebook & the classes are held at Amitie in Bentleigh.
Date: Saturday 28 August 9:00-12:00
I plan to focus on the bookmark at this class, but will of course be flexible.
You can book your tickets here.
There are other fabulous classes on offer. I'm seriously considering signing up for Andi's quilt as you go but there's something for everyone. View the August timetable here (we are on page 2).
I had a bit of fun mucking around with some thermal curtain lining & the embroidery floss over the weekend.
I've posted the details over on Feeling Stitchy with a link to the pdf template if you'd like to make your own.
Beris is the best name ever!
I picked up a gorgeous embroidered table cloth at Camberwell Antiques last week.
It's got a lovely collection of names embroidered all around it...
Mildred, Gloria, Wendy, Beris, Phyllis, Helen, Pauline, Noelle, Joni, Paddy, Vonnie, Trish, Isabelle, Paul, Beverley, Anita, Besse, Mara, Jean, Norma, Fay, Grace, Lesley, Jenny, Kath, Elvie, Glenda & the four Margs (S, T, B & N).
It's just the most beautiful piece of work. I wonder if these folk were card players (the cloth is card table size) or maybe a church group?
& did you see my other fabulous vintage find?
(faux).
If you're a die hard kootoyoo reader (thank you from the bottom of my teeny tiny heart) you might remember I went to a Kaotic Kraft Kuties day to make my own hand bound book. Then for Backtack 4 I embroidered a notebook cover & bound it myself using the same technique. I loved that book but it did make me a little sad to think that once all the pages were used then that was the end of it.
I know I've been guilty of buying lovely hand bound books and then not using them because I don't want to "spoil" them...such a waste. Maybe you have too?
Anyhoo, I've made a faux one as a gift for The Big Girl's drama teacher & I'm most chuffed with it. I followed my own notebook cover tutorial to make it up & I love that not only is it refillable time after time after time but it can be washed too.
PS: Most excited that Vic now has the granny square necklace for sale (& it's in Frankie this month too).
I staged a little hook intervention this week & I'm back on the stitching. I've been working on a little flocked embroidery project which I plan to finish off today.
I'm making plans for the upcoming school holidays & thinking a lot about basic shapes too.
Hope you're planning a fabulously creative day.
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