Blog entries tagged Embroidery

Today's Projects

Shelley — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:47:19 +0100

Sorry for the lack of blogging. No baby yet but it is getting more and more uncomfortable to sit at my desk and I've been frantically trying to finish up as many baby projects as possible (though I haven't gotten around to fixing my mistake on the mario mushroom yet). I'd like to blog about all the cute projects I've been working on - I write fantastic posts in my head but just don't have the energy to type them out - so I've uploaded pictures of them to Flickr and that will have to do for no...

A Little Bunny

Shelley — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:30:11 +0100

I did a little bit of cross stitch last night and this morning. Very little. So little I got out my macro lens to try and get a nice picture of it. Here it is with my regular lens (and my lens cap for scale):

Cute yes? It's for an Easter card. I came across ...

Mint and Caramel

Shelley — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:42:39 +0100

Fun stuff in the mailbox today - my order of floss from The Workroom arrived. I now have everything I need to make the March and April designs in the Dessert of the Month Club. The little collection above is the colours I'll be using to make this cute St. Patrick's Day cake-pop. April's design is still a mystery but the colours for it are below. I'm thinking maybe something cara...

Just A Good Day

Shelley — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:20:44 +0100

Today has been a good day.

We've been treated to a day of warm temperatures and soft winds. Even though it was grey and snowing I found myself smiling and realized part way through the afternoon that it was because the warm temperatures were making it feel a bit like spring and that is just the best feeling you can get in the cold dark months. As I walked home I had to loos...

Surprise!

Shelley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:48:12 +0100

I was putting away an order of things I'd received The Workroom when I found this disk tucked into the folds of my fabric (spool of thread included for scale). I think it is intended to become a necklace; it would certainly work nicely as one. After taking a few pictures of it and finding a home for it on the shelf above my sewing machine - a favourite spot for new and interesting treasures...

Moving On To Step Two

Shelley — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:44:08 +0100

This quilt is consuming my brain. I can't bring myself to change the thread in my machine to work on something else. I'm so curious to see how it turns out I just have to keep working on it. It's almost all I think about while I'm at work and the first thing I want to do when I get home. I've got six large panels done now. I tried to lay them out on the floor on Saturday mor...

Final Touches

Shelley — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:48:37 +0100

Cotton muslin stretched in a plastic hoop.
Three strands of pink silk floss.
A quilt label.

Sneak Peak

Shelley — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:14:04 +0100

I’ve been working on my Regency under-things. It took me ages to get all the materials and then get around to making up the toile for the stays. According to this pattern I’m a whole lot smaller than I thought I was. It took me three tries to get the right size and shape.

It turned out that I didn’t need any gusset...

A Tiny View

Shelley — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:59:04 +0100

I have a new photo gallery up. It is an idea I’ve been playing with in my head for a while - inspired by the photos I took to show the new ribbons and thread I got last week - but it took some creative thinking before I was able to create a set-up that would let me takethe right kind of pictures.

Several times recently I have seen pictures of ordinary objects shown at many tim...