easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in embroidery on Apr 12th, 2009
Ava Mae was born on Thursday, and I enjoyed making Gwen’s embroidered birth announcement so much that I thought Ava should have one too.
This one’s almost all done in back stitch, with the exception of a few chains and french knots on the decoration. At the rate all these babies are arriving, I’m going to [...]
Posted in embroidery on Apr 9th, 2009
Gwen was born on Monday, and I thought it would be nice to embroider a little something that her parents might like to keep. I didn’t want it to be a traditional-looking baby sampler, so I opted to go for a fancy font and some freehand embroidery.
The lettering is worked in back stitch, using two [...]
Posted in embroidery on Apr 8th, 2009
This is a robin. Wearing a hat. Of course.
Last week I drew some silly pictures of birds wearing hats, and then spent ages deciding what I could do with them. Ages ago I bought a whole bunch of organic cotton tote bags, with the idea of embroidering designs on them. So, I embroidered the robin [...]