In the last few years, my niece Allyson has become fascinated with drawing designs featuring eyes. She’s sketched more than 30 different eyes and we’re gradually digitizing them. She starts with pencil sketches and then develops a final pen-and-ink version. Once her design is digitized, we often need to simplify it a bit to make [...]
I’ve been embroidering a lot lately and experimenting with new stitches and fabrics. I’ve done a few items that are embroidery on knitted fabrics but no photos yet. The challenge I always seem to face with embroidery is transferring the design to the fabric. This is particularly troublesome with dark, heavy fabrics like something I’ve [...]
Happy holidays, everyone! I love the holiday season and I particularly love to use gingerbread people and houses in my holiday decorations. I cross-stitched this little gingerbread man from a kit several years ago. I backed the finished project with a piece of green felt and used the half-stitch in red, green and white to [...]
I’ve introduced a new embroidery pattern in my etsy store: “Bear in My Stocking”. It features my animal friend, Bailey, the Brown Bear, hanging out with a candy cane in a Christmas stocking. The photo shows an ornament I am making. I stitched this cute design in red, green, brown, and white using raised satin [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of embroidery projects lately and here’s another new one. This is a “shades of pink” embroidered eye I stitched from a pattern my niece designed for our etsy store (Eye #3 by Allyson Mitchell of Pink Tea Design). The fabric is a cotton kitchen towel and I used the following [...]
One of my first embroidery projects, this small blue tote bag includes a design of vines and pink flowers that wraps around the top of the bag. I made this bag for my mother who loved the color blue and little flowers. The bag itself is from Joann’s dollar section. The design is freehand and [...]
In Summer 2008, I embroidered this small cosmetics bag for my preteen niece whose name starts with “B”. It was one of my first embroidery projects and turned out to be a sampler of sorts as I learned new stitches. The design was completely freehand and I made it up as I went along, filling [...]