I thought I would have some fun today, so here is my top ten list: 1. It’s relaxing! I always get energy back after working on embroidery for awhile. 2. It’s meditative. The repeated movements becoming a pattern, creating a picture. It’s a great way to destress and be creative. 3. Working with tactile materials. […]
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A Sheepish Halloween is a project I’ve had completed for a long time, or maybe it wasn’t quite complete. I knew it was missing something, so finally I picked up my needle and added french knots to it, even a bunch of them! (Hard to go wrong with french knots, isn’t it?) The little sheep
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I’m still working through the pile of embroideries for posting on Instagram. It’s like a little trip down memory lane looking at my projects. I think I said this before, but they always bring back memories and feelings of what I was doing or thinking when I made them. Sometimes, of course, it’s things I
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The Hare Crewel Embroidery has been a long favorite of mine. It was fun to design and stitch. The motif seemed to fun not to play with some more. Way too fun! So I’ve made a follow up in the series, yes, it will be part of a series, yet to be created, but I
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This week I’ve taken another look at the Crewel Sampler project I made a few years ago. This one was bigger than many of the others I have done. I do really enjoy a larger project now and then, they give me a chance to really spend more time with an embroidery and develop the
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I’ve been working this week on a magazine project, so that’s under wraps until the winter. But there are still plenty of florals to show. The floral projects are just fun and enjoyable stitching. I like especially that they fit so well in the hoops for easy display. I still don’t have enough hoops, believe
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I hope you’re all managing to keep cool! Up here in the northern latitudes, it isn’t especially warm this year, but I can feel the heat in the US all the way up here. Today I have an old favorite from a few years ago that I have re-photographed. I don’t think this project was
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I dug up another old embroidery to photograph for my Instagram collection! This one was a fun one. I remember just having some fun with the stitches and colors I chose. This one is from the third mandala pattern collection. I’m thinking this one too could be remade into a nice crewel kit too. More
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Stitching and stitching! I’ve been working hard to get the Butterfly Florals Embroidery Pattern Collection finished this week. This new floral embroidery collection with 12 patterns in it with sizes from 3 inches to 6 inches. These florals continue to be a lot of fun to play with, and I have many more ideas waiting
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I’ve been sorting through my embroideries lately as I dig up photos for Instagram. For me, the embroideries bring back memories of when and where I stitched them. This is one of the things I always love about handwork, especially slow handwork. Memories and associations are worked into each stitch. Most are neither happy nor
