Category — Embroidery

A good friend of mine just had her second baby boy. His name is Derek and I stitched him up a little onesie and a bib using the Monkey Love pattern from Sublime Stitching.

Dark Brown – DMC 898
Light Brown – Anchor 372
Dark Green – DMC 520
Red – DMC 816

I picked up this cute flower pattern from Feeling Sitchy for the February Vintage Pattern Stitchalong, but I didn’t finish it until this weekend. Mostly because I wasn’t focused, but also those lazy daisy’s are more work than they seem.

I stitched each of the four corners and kept to a simple color palette.

pink – DMC 3687
green – DMC 987
light blue – DMC 3753
dark blue – DMC 334

Paul asked me if I could sew a little something onto a pair of his shorts. I thought a sugar skull would look great. The piece only took about 3 hours total to complete. I’m really happy with how the satin stitch came out.

Because it was for a guy I kept the color palette pretty simple. I think he looked pretty cool when he wore them out longboarding with Milo.

Oh no! It looks like it is going to rain tomorrow, so I’m going to go ahead and call for a move to the alternate rain location. Floyd’s on Atlantic Avenue. See you there!

I know I’ve been slacking lately.  I haven’t even posted to let you know that I would be slacking, even though I knew I would be.  I think I need to take a hiatus from the group stitch for a couple of months.  I have too many commitments and for my own sanity I need to limit my activities until those major commitments are over.  I definitely can’t wait to get together again once the weather clears and we can go to the park to stitch.

In the meantime check out this awesome photo of the Flatbush Branch of the Woman’s Needlework Guild from 1916 posted by the Brooklyn Historical Society.

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at sewing for a while now. My mom has lent me her sewing machine so that I can see how I like it. My sister also gave me this great book for Christmas, One-Yard Wonders. It has over a hundred projects that each require one yard or less of fabric.

For my first project I wanted to make my niece Anna a cute bag with some embroidery on it. The bag I picked ended up being quite a challenge for a beginner like me, but in the end I managed to finish it and I think it came out really nice.

Inside the bag, there are ribbon loops for keeping smaller items organized.

I’ve been stitching for just over a year now and I thought the time had come to join The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA).

I’m hoping it will create opportunities to meet new people and learn new techniques. I joined as a member at large because there is no active local chapter in my area. One of the benefits of membership is the quarterly magazine, Needle Arts.

When I saw this owl pattern on Stitchy Britches I just knew I had to stitch it up. So I stitched it onto a tote bag before the holidays thinking I might gift it to someone. But I couldn’t figure out who to gift it to, or maybe I just liked it too much to give it away. Anyway, I still have it and I wanted to show it off to you.

My blog turned 1 year old this week! I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I started embroidery and this blog. I’ve made lots of fun projects and had lots of fun group stitches in the past year. Here’s a look back at the projects…

One of my sister’s favorite foods is lamb, so I thought it’d be cute to embroider the butcher cuts onto a tea towel. I did all of the lettering free-hand, so it’s not perfect, but I think it came out cute.

“Beste Lam” is Dutch for “Best Lamb”. The reason for that is a long story. Here’s a picture of my sister with her Beste Lam tea towel on Christmas.