My Spring Sampler is now done (as I'm sure you guessed from the title). This project was a blast to do, and because of the many different stitches I never got bored with it.
It's summer you say? Oh. Party pooper. My Spring Sampler is now done (as I'm sure you guessed from the title). This project was a blast to do, and because of the many different stitches I never got bored with it. We have chain stitches, lazy dasies, satin stitches, stem stitch, split stitch, herringbones, French knots, and of course, back stitches. And what embroidery sampler would be complete without a few cross stitches thrown in there as well?
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Ahh... I love the relaxing Saturdays that I can just sit and immerse myself in a project while listening to music and sipping coffee. That's exactly what today is. I've made some progress with my own rendition of Bakercourt's Spring Sampler. I have to say, it's really fun to work on, and very easy to lose myself in! The best part is, I'm able to make it with supplies and things that I already have, so no money is spent (amazing news for a crafter on a budget). My apologies for neglecting my duties as a blogger... Life continues to get in the way, but I'm here now and let me catch you up on my crafting addictions as of late! (Promise this post is mostly pictures!) I finally finished the Ashton Shawlette! It feels like it took me forever. Unfortunately I'm not ecstatic about the finished project, and am a little disappointed. I hadn't realized that I had messed up a portion of the chart on one half of the shawlette, nor did I realize I had done the cast-off too tightly thus creating a straight edge rather than a scalloped one at the bottom. Oh well. My family's poor little shih tzu dog, Tobey, was feeling sorely neglected due to the presence of my new service dog, Patty. He was getting very jealous that she got to sleep in my bed and was following me everywhere. To help lessen the sting, I made him his own little bed from some scraps of superhero fabric that I had. Just two simply squares sewn together with a little polyester fiberfill between them to create a soft little bed for him in my room. And finally, I began a new embroidery project called "Spring Sampler" that I found on Pinterest. The pattern is from Bakercourt – Design, Bake, Craft. It's a lot of fun to work so far, and is putting my embroidery skills to the test. I decided to stitch it on some cotton fabric that I had, after dyeing it a nice beige color with some extra strong coffee. And I transferred the design using my window as a lightbox and lightly penciled it onto the fabric before stitching. So that's my crafting adventure as of late. What have you been working on? Let me know in the comments below if there are any awesome projects out there that I'm missing out on! |