Embroidery Hand Stitching

At long last it was dry!   A little relaxing of the shape on the leaf shapes and some looking at what is needed next…. Definitely some painting to add colour to the felt leaves. Do like the colour and light from my sewing machine!   LED’s…   Two beading needles later!   Some beading undulating around the inside and the outside of the bowl.     Always a difficult point should I do more or should I stop?   More beads or a little hand stitching?     And will it sell?  Should I make another?  Who knows and who can say!!!   I have another drying, a larger one.     I do like the colours and the feel of this one.  I'm deciding whether this bowl needs another layer of washaway to strengthen it as it's larger. And of course beads, hand stitching or leave as is.  A little tidying up around the edges. Please feel fr...

Staying true to you, embroidered bowl! I’ve been soul searching of late….i love creating using fabrics but I find trying to make a living at it extremely hard going. I recently hired a stall for a week and found out the hard way that trying to sell items that people can buy in the shops is soul destroying. So what do you like to make, I asked myself?!   I like creating fabric the most. I am happiest if I am dyeing, sewing crazy patchwork, free machine embroidery, hand embroidering and embellishing fabrics. Well do that then! So along came my idea for a free machine embroidered bowl. I rooted out my stash of thick washaway film and loaded it up with thread and fabric waste (!) with a few leaf shaped pieces of hand felted felt.   Then ontop a layer of gold fabric mesh.  This then was hooped ready for leaves to be free machine embroidered on to.       You have to go over y our sewing lines several times as t...

Knit Kit Complete! So where were we! So many things have happened since I last posted..... Let's finish the scarf first though. Now you have cast on your stitches, 160 makes a nice length. All you do is knit each row until you have knitted one or two rows from the last colour on the ball. Then cast off.  Again you can see tutorials of this on utube better than I can describe.  One hint though is to cast off loosely. Try some of these:- cast off utube And the biggest news is (drum roll!) I've completed my Zip up cardi......   Sorry it's very late in the evening!  It's knitted up in this Wool Clasica   It's gorgeously soft and snuggly!   It still needs buttons on the neck and hip bands..debating which to use!  I WILL be wearing it tomorrow!   Right off to bed.   Thanks for visiting, take care!   Jacqui http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+cast+off+in+knitting&sm=3