Since the Canadian postal service finally decided to go back to work (read: were legislated to get delivering!) I figured it was finally time to get this project out the door! Here is a shot of each of the potholders while I was layering them. I’ve had a lot of trouble with layers slipping in [...]
I’ve been working away at the potholder swap for my sewing buddy. I’m really good at envisioning beautifully embroidered finished pieces, but the amount of work and sheer time that goes into stitching them out just never gets captured in my daydream. I basically finished one of these per night for two nights (today is [...]
I’ve decided again to use the WordPress “schedule” functionality again to my advantage. I’ve started working on a swap that I agreed to with my sewing buddy, and I really want to talk about it, but I don’t want her to see it, so I’ve written it (Wednesday May 18) and scheduled it for sometime [...]
Here it is, another scheduled post, brought to you by the wonder of WordPress. It’s currently FRIDAY and I spent all night working on a gift for SUNDAY and it’s half-done, but I ran out of one color of thread! This post will go up Monday after the beautiful bride-to-be receives this gift at her [...]
I finished my Bon Appetit project yesterday! You wanna take a look? The fabric is Emily Taylor’s Domestic Diva for Riley Blake (you may remember the bubbles from my laundry bag a while back!). The embroidery design is from Urban Threads, I got it during their 2010 bestseller sale (for $1! oh yeah!). I really [...]
Pfelicia and I had a disagreement last night. I said she should embroider and she didn’t think she should. She then puked bobbin thread all over my piece. After a few tries I got so frustrated that I literally threw my hoop and the hooped piece over my shoulder (in retrospect I probably shouldn’t have [...]
ninjas don’t come out of the womb as full fledged experts in all things ninja… they need to be trained. my favorite part is the throwing-start detail in the rattle. and it’s for a girl so it’s in pink, and it’s backed with a pink zebra-stripe fabric.
here it is. there was much pain and foul language and waving around of arms near the end, but after somewhere between 5 and 8 hours (i have almost no sense of time, which i attribute to acute adhd) it is complete! it’s on the left side (left if you’re the one wearing it, right [...]
I think this is the longest embroidery project I’ve ever done… I worked on it for what must have been a couple of hours last night and it’s still not finished! But anyways, here’s an update:
I forgot to talk about this because I got so excited about my roses! Pfelicia is my Pfaff Creative 2134, combo sewing and embroidery machine. I looked at a whole lot of machines before I adopted her, and I seem to remember getting a really good deal on her. As I’ve had her for almost [...]
