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:
Here is a peak at what I was working on last night… Yes, that’s a skull and those are roses. Take a look at the detail on the roses: Texture on the roses is created by not only the direction and length of the stitches, but by layering the stitches as well. This is going [...]
this project has been under wraps for a while: It was originally meant to be a pin-cushion, but I went a little crazy… I couldn’t help it, the pins and buttons were just screaming at me to be involved. I found the skull ribbon in the Halloween clearance bin and I just knew! Red thread [...]
I met my mom for lunch today. At some point this winter I had sent her a link to http://urbanthreads.com/ and she had told me how much she loved the swirly reindeer. If I was smart I would have bought the machine embroidery pattern when they were all on sale for a dollar! But I [...]
