18 Oct
Last weekend I finished my floral sampler, inspired largely by Hand Embroidery Network’s Stitch-A-Day series:
I am so pleased with how it came out! The pink french knots were last minute additions, added largely to help show my mother-in-law how to do a french knot.
If you haven’t checked out Stitch-A-Day yet on Hand Embroidery network, you [...]
5 Oct
I tried this out this weekend. While it’s rough, and by no means perfect, I am pretty pleased with trying something new.
I felted a sweater – and old, wool, Gap sweater – a while back. I plan to make a bag out of it – try googling “Upcycled Sweater Tote” and you will find loads [...]
28 Sep
I’ve been really inspired by Hand Embroidery Network’s “Stitch-a-Day” series, and after seeing this chain-stitched flower, I embarked upon creating my own floral sampler to try out some stitches – chain (which I have done before, though solely as filler), whipped backstitch (so pretty), and fern stitch (so easy). Here’s my efforts so far:
21 Sep
So, I had been saving this project for a rainy day – and boy howdy, has it been rainy in Tennessee! So after school I decided to let my antsy boys try a hand at some stitchin’:
This is a really easy project to do at home, and pretty inexpensive. You will need: burlap, which has [...]
13 Sep
In an earlier post, I talked about being bogged down. It was a birthday gift for my mom, and I got really stalled in the framing stage – scared to mess up my hard work with a messy attempt at a new method. But I finally mustered up the courage, and tried a new technique [...]
31 Aug
I recently purchased several towels in the dollar section at Target with embroidery in mind. The Bear claimed the red one and wanted horses stitched upon it; much thanks to this doe-c-doe pattern I was able to make it happen:
Doe-c-Doe is a great source for come super cute vintage patterns.
10 Aug
Sometimes I get bogged down in finishing a project.
The most recent one I have done is for a gift. And when it’s a gift, well – I don’t want to mess it up. Add to that the time and effort put into it, and you definitely don’t want to blow it on the finishing.
On this [...]
21 Jul
So, with this upcoming trip I am trying to think of everything I can take to keep my kiddos occupied in the car. And I decided to use a classic:
Monkey got so mad at me because he says it looks like he’s losing.
We have a lot of craft foam from the lacing project, and [...]
19 Jul
So, the boys have been watching me stitch from time to time. The other day, Monkey takes the shoe strings out of his shoe (while we were in the car) and starts “stitching” them together with his “needle” (the lace).
When we got home, he wanted to get his other shoes and his brother’s shoes [...]
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