Saturday, March 11, 2023

Fairy Witch Cottagecore - my new fave vibe!



 I’m obsessed with Fairies🧚‍♀️ Witches 🧙Toadstools 🍄 and magic! 🪄🧝‍♀️

My new vibe crush 😻 is also Cottagecore. 

Dreams of sleep in in a magical mysterious world here:




Want to bring the vibe with you everywhere? Adorn your laptops and water bottles with these Uber cute vinyl decals:






Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Pictures of my Baby Deer & Kitten vintage Laura Wheeler Quilt Embroidery!

Finally, I have some pictures of the embroidery I did of the vintage Laura Wheeler Baby Deer & Kitten  Quilt patterns! I love love love them! I love vintage images, and I especially love baby animals. I hung them on the wall, next to the old christmas fabric decorations. Eventually I want to fill the wall with these baby animals. I love how they look in the embroidery hoops, they make the perfect wall decor.

I used an outline stitch on the black deer, and a detached chain stitch for the leaves,  a simple regular stitch for the flowers, and french knots for the centers of the flowers. I used three strands for the black animals. I used six strands for the flower petals, three for the french knots and three for the leaves.



I initially used a chain stitch on the flower petals, but then the flowers became too big.  My husband also pointed out that the flowers then looked to be too much in the foreground, and they should be in the background. I used pink for the flowers because that's what I had on hand, and I love pink.

For the kitten, I used a basic back stitch. The outline stitch on the baby deer looks great, but it took forever to do, and the back stitch takes so much less time, and looks just about as good.

















I'm currently working on a baby duck with yellow flowers.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Embroidery Newbie: I made a Baby Deer!


I used to do basic embroidery, way back before the internet. I knew the basic stab stitch. Recently my health got better, and I wanted a craft that I could do in front of the TV. I don't like knitting, it hurts my fingers too much, and sewing with a needle is my true passion.
I am a nut for vintage embroidery images, especially baby animals. I found a bunch on flickr. My faves were ones from the Laura Wheeler company. These were advertised in the newspapers way back when. You would mail away for them, usually for pennies. They had all kinds of handwork patterns. There is a baby quilt featuring baby animals on flickr from Laura Wheeler that made me go "squeeee" when I saw it. I immediately made a gallery for it.

Laura Wheeler Baby Quilt Baby Animals to Embroider



A Teeny Tiny Fawn! I just made this. I like to embroider in the hoop, then hang the hoop on the wall. I plan on making most of these animals. I'm currently working on the kitty. I don't love the bear, so I probably won't do that one.



Blogger makes it difficult to make a picture linkable, so I apologize if it doesn't link right. Use this link instead:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caradeirdre/galleries/72157628860375205/

I will be posting pics of the finished and in progress embroidery projects this week!
Thanks for looking!
What have you embroidered lately?