Cupcake Details

Cupcake anyone? A little bit of detail on a napkin set I'm making up. Show and tell if it ever ends....

New Threads

It's been a very long time since I indulged in buying new embroidery floss. It's been years since I've done any real embroidery. I thought, once upon a time, that it would be my 'thing', but it turns out I've made very little time for it in real life. Which is a shame; I do like doodling with thread.

These new skeins of floss were bought for the cross stitch pattern I've been working up. Cross stitch is new to me and I still have half memories of being forced to cross stitch some awful panel in school, which I hated doing, which kind of puts me off. Doodling is much more my thing, but I'll give it a go... maybe I will fall in love with it all. Who knows?

Organising thread and having neat little boxes full of wound spools - well, that's something I can live with. It's like owning my very own rainbow.

Busy Making

Lots and lots of things are happily tumbling out of this work space of mine. It involves an inordinate amount of doilies, lots of french knots, quite a hefty gross weight of vintage fabric, the odd bit of Liberty print and mod podge, and not an insignficant dose of crochet... and I'm not done yet!

I think we can assume that there will be a shop update in the not so distant future insha'allah. Details to follow.


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Whimsical embroidery

It has been a very, very long time since I made the effort to embroider anything. This past weekend I had a couple projects that called for some, and I did so enjoy the process.

Drawing with thread. I must try and make effort do more...


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Some WIPs*

Inspired by these colours...



Crazy enough to go back to crochet...



Masochistic enough to make granny squares for yet another crochet 'thing' that will probably end up disappointing me. Again. Because, even though I want to, I can't crochet and I don't really like crocheted things all that much. This might be the one that changes all that.



Some embroidery...



And I daresay various things on sticks, various things scribbled down on my 'To Do' board and preparation for a few other projects on the go at the same time. Just a few.

What are your WIPs??


* works in progress

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