I finished up the garden path sampler for the &Stitches June sampler-along! Once I ripped out the excruciatingly bad backstitch trellis and went with something else, everything started going pretty quickly. Clockwise from the red section at the bottom: Red: fern stitch Orange: tulip stitch Pink: woven cross stitch Purple: wave filling stitch Blue:...
Just Doodling
I finished stuffing and sewing the stuffing opening closed on the doodle stitch owl at my knitting group yesterday — yay! I decided to go with some berry-ish clusters of French knots in the embroidered motif instead of little satin stitch circles. I completely chickened out of trying the tiny circles in satin stitch,...
Look, I made a flowchart!
I was going to do a real post today and talk about my Project Hope mini-quilt and whatnot, but I got caught up with actually sewing and ran out of time. So just a couple of quick photos with bits of disjointed text, maybe? I’ve been doing the &Stitches June Sampler-along. I’ve got the...
Finished Calavera Pillow! and TAST Week 5
It seems like I spent about six weeks working on all these different projects without finishing anything, and now they’re getting finished all at once. I stitched most of the marigolds on the calavera project while I was at the music festival, then got the few petals done a few days ago. And today...