Hi and welcome! I hope that you had a good New Year's Eve and a great New Year's Day. It's been raining here so most of the snow has melted, but we did have a white Christmas and it's now snowing again! I didn't get much sewing or slow stitching during the holidays except for yesterday and today. It's great getting back to it 😊.
Snow Happens
I spent a few hours New Year's eve working on my Snow Happens Embroidery. It's slowly coming along. I'm hoping to finish it in a few days so that I can make a wall hanging. I haven't thought that out yet but there's still time left to get inspired.
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| Snow Happens - in progress |
The first two snow people are almost finished. I'm waiting until I've finished all of the bodies before making the faces. Hopefully that will make it consistent.
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| The first two snow people - almost done! |
I spent most of my time yesterday on the next three snow people. I thought that I would be bored with following a pattern but I'm really enjoying it. Only using shades of blue makes the colour decisions easier. I'm trying to be consistent but I'm sure that it won't really matter when it's all done.
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| The last three snow people |
I had a great time stitching this snow lady's hair. It turns out that they were supposed to be ear muffs, but I couldn't really tell since part of the marking was erased. I started at the top making larger lazy daisies but then made them smaller and on top of each other. The effect is like curls. I love it! I would never have thought to do this before taking Fleur Woods' course. You can see the snow lady's finished hair and hat in the image above.
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| Stitching curly hair on the snow lady. |
Updates on Joyful Embroidery Projects
I haven't worked on these embroideries in a while. Fibre Arts Take 2 is having a virtual show of the students' work but it needs to be submitted by January 9th. I'm not sure if I'll make that deadline and if I want to even try.
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| Embroidering over the fabric flowers |
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| Work done so far |
The next step is to make an arrangement with the flowers and other textiles. I have a few handkerchiefs and doilies that I'd like to include in the piece.
This next piece includes embroidery and punch needle work. I've included lines of white and off white at the top and bottom. I'll be filling these out more.
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| Punch needle and embroidery piece |
Corner Book Marks
Last week I saw that Melva made corner book marks as gifts. I love them! I found a tutorial and they are easy though a little fiddly because are turned inside out after sewing, just like the pillow case finished quilts that I've experimented with recently. These are perfect for the December Table Scraps Challenge.
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| Two each of three sizes of corner book marks |
Here they are looking wonderful in some of the books that I got for Christmas! The small ones will be perfect for paperback books.
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| Corner book marks in action |
Poppy Sitting
Since Boxing Day we've been Poppy sitting. She's always a pleasure to have around (except when she needs to go outside at 7am). These are pictures that I sent to my son. 😍
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| Poppy looking for wildlife action in the back yard |
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| Chilling out in the evening |
Thanks so much for joining me on my journey this year. I think that I have a day or two to prepare my Best of 2024 post, so you'll see it soon.
What I learned
- It turns out that embroidering on a pattern is not as painful as I expected. I think that part of it is that the end is in sight but the other thing is that I've played with stitches, using the fishbone stitch to make the small leaves.
- Since taking my Joyful Embroidery course with Fleur Woods, I've experimented more with stitches. Doesn't the snow lady's hair look great with all of those curls?
- I'd really like to join the class exhibition for Fleur Woods' course but I'm not sure that I can get one or both of the pieces done by then. The punch needle piece might be done in time but I would have to spend all of my time in the next week working on it....we'll see.
- My favourite piece is the embroidered flowers but I don't want to rush it or make it smaller just to get it into the exhibition.
- To get ready for my Best of 2024 post, I've started creating my 2024 Finishes page. It was interesting to see all the smaller projects that I've made. It looks like it was a year of learning and playing with smaller projects.
Related links
- Snow Happens
- Christmas Updates and Finishes on Free Motion Mavericks, December 26, 2024
- It's that time of the year again! December 04, 2024
- So much slow stitching going on, January 09, 2024
- Making Plans on my 600th post! January 04, 2024
- Joyful Embroidery with Fleur Woods
- Many Updates and Free Motion Mavericks, November 20, 2024
- Scraps, Embroidery and Free Motion Mavericks, October 31, 2024
- More Joyful Embroidery and Free Motion Mavericks, October 23, 2024
- Joyful Embroidery with Fleur Woods and Free Motion Mavericks, October 10, 2024
- Corner Book Marks: How to make corner bookmarks with fabric by The Ruffled Purse
Linking parties
I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties, including the December Table Scraps Challenge. Free Motion Mavericks, Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday, Sew & Tell,
Those corner bookmarks were a great entry for the December TABLE SCRAPS Challenge, Andree! I've entertained the idea of making some for my journals, but haven't done it yet. I hope to give them a try soon!
ReplyDeleteI like the modified sizes of the corner bookmarks. :) Cute! Thanks for sharing in my Sew & Tell party.
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