Embroidery: Cute Ice Cream Girl

This is the last towel I stitched on for the Craftster Tea Towel Tour 5 swap. I’m sad for the swap to be over — it was one of the few swaps (the only swap???) in which I’ve participated for which I didn’t feel stressed at any point along the way. I had an easy [...]

Embroidered Name Tag

Our local chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America is brand new and, at last month’s meeting, we were asked to make ourselves name tags to wear at future meetings to help everyone be able to put names with faces. Finished in the nick of time for this week’s meeting, here’s what I made:

(By the [...]

Finally! Some Embroidery Pics

It’s funny how when I feel burned out on embroidery, taking a hiatus of a week or less is all I need before I’m chomping at the bit to have a needle and floss in my hands again!!
This fella is my contribution to doo_leroux’s throw pillow top for the Craftster Tea Towel Tour 5 swap:

Stitches [...]

Embroidery: A Traveling Lass

I stitched this cute lass onto rectangel’s apron for the Craftster Tea Towel Tour 5 swap.
The design came from Stitchin’ Retro, by Leisure Arts. The design is drawn so that all of the lines don’t connect with each other, and I can’t tell you how difficult it was for me to not connect the lines!! [...]

TTT5: aada’s apron + Reading & Watching

CRAFTING: This is the design I added to aada’s apron for the Craftster Tea Towel Tour 5 (if you follow that link, click the tab that says “show images only” so you can see just the stitching and skip all the discussion!).

In keeping with a nautical theme, I found this free sailboat suncatcher design on [...]