Embroidery Archives - Page 4 of 8

Posted on October 16, 2008 by hillary — 41 Comments

sweets

Posted on September 27, 2008 by hillary — 30 Comments

The other day I was asking Tim to give me some ideas for Christmas embroidery patterns. As always, he gave me ‘I don’t know’ but I forced him to spit out Christmasy things… santa, reindeer, candy canes, kids in their beds dreaming about what they want for Christmas.. ahh! I ran to the bookshelves to find one of my childhood favorites, Gyo Fujikawa’s A to Z Picture Book. I loved this page when I was a kid. So I … More

Posted on July 7, 2008 by hillary — 26 Comments

Picnic Fairy Stitchette up in the Shop

The Picnic Fairy Stitchette has made her way to the shop this morning.

I’m kicking around some ideas for what I’m going to do with my finished embroideries this time. I think it’d be so cute to make some sort of picnic basket cover out of them but I don’t have a nice basket yet. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll make another garland or apron.

So a note on the pattern: all the detail in the samples I made up is … More

Posted on June 25, 2008 by hillary — 55 Comments

picnic fairy & her friends

I’d been staring at a half-drawn picnic fairy for, I think, almost 2 months now. I would take it out every night and stare at it and nothing. Lots of drawings with kooky ants in them. But you know what, I HATE ants. That’s a fun homeowner story for another day. After I decided no ants it all cleared up for me and here is the Picnic Fairy and her friends… watermelon butterfly

I’ve got a frisbee catching puppy & … More

Posted on April 15, 2008 by hillary — 26 Comments

I’d say it’s about tulip time

Stubborn Chicago weather disagrees. My daffodils still haven’t even started blooming. Luckily here are some tulips to tide me over a few more weeks. The Tulip Fairy Stitchette is up in the shop now.

Tulips or not, I’m taking my embroidery to the park today. I think we may have finally hit crafting outdoors temps!… More

Posted on April 7, 2008 by hillary — 44 Comments

stitching business

So I just sewed a pair of doll legs on backwards for the third time. THIRD! So I’m taking a little computer break. How about some relaxing embroidery instead. The Bear & Bunny pattern is up now on the freebies page. And thanks for asking after the Tulip Fairy, she and her friends will be up in the shop later this week.