This is another of one of the stumpwork designs I made this past year with beginners in mind. The ladybugs are such fun to make. I love the dimensional effect of them. It always makes me want to get busy making more, just talking about them, and soon I will, but first a few more […]
Ladybug Wreath Stumpwork Embroidery Read More »
I’m celebrating a new finish! This little owl was lots of fun to stitch. I really like the big staring eyes. They look almost worried, but it must just be the snow that’s the problem. 🙂 I have a pile of new designs in the works, all waiting to be stitched up, so it’s
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This project was a reproduction kit I bought some years ago and made. It’s from a design that was found in the south of Sweden. The fabric is a thick wool felt, really nice to feel, but less easy to push the needle through. I so loved working with the wool threads though! This is
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I’ve made a companion crewel design to the popular Bee’s World. The bees are such fun to stitch, I doubt I will be able to keep myself from making another pattern with this theme.
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This project was developed with the idea of making a series of stumpwork designs that would give beginners practice with certain techniques. In this project, the focus is on detached wired shapes and covered beads which are a couple of my favorite techniques for creating dimension. I have loads of ideas for more such projects,
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This one I made last year. The sides of the box are made out of Timtex which you can use to make all sorts of shapes. These two pictures are when it was in the WIP stage. As you see, I used all sorts of fibers and fabrics to get different textures. And here is
It’s been a long time, but I’m returning to this blog after a loong pause. I’ve been busy learning lots of new things that I hope to bring with me to stitching and my other creative endeavors. I am keeping another blog, Dusty Sidewalks, for my painting-related work which I’ve done quite a bit of
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It took me a little while to decide on a theme. I wanted to do something that reminded me of the softness of spring. New leaves, new flowers, the warmth of the sun as it gets higher in the sky each day, the sweet songs of the birds as they mark out their territory. There
I’ve tried something a bit different with this project. I was reading somewhere about someone with a site where you can leave your secrets anonymously. The site doesn’t matter, but it got me thinking about the subject of secrets. We all have them. We try to bury many of them deep down in dark places,
Finally, here is my bee purse! And the beehive side: It’s a little work to sew these frames on, but it isn’t hard. This is part of my effort over the past year or so to take the embroidery “off the wall”. Or perhaps in my case, out of the box. I have 3 boxes
