Slow and steady

 

Hi everyone, how you doing?

No embroidery today.

Shelf sorting.

Making room for my Paris haul.

In truth I have been unwell for a couple of weeks.

My embroidery is suffering due to brain fog from medication. 

Hexagons are the answer to brain fog...slow and doable with an empty head. 

I'm mostly pottering and can just about manage to sort these shelves.

What a task.

Don't we accumulate? 

Two walks around the Zoo with two of my favourite little boys cleared the head slightly. 

I'm going to the Zoo so often they will invite me to their staff Christmas party. 

Take care and I'm sure normal service will be resumed shortly. 

 

 

 

Liberty Little Mirabelle.

 

I have started on the embellishment of the patchwork pouch I showed you last time I was here.

There will be seven patchwork pieces on this in total, all created from Liberty Tana Lawn, the Little Mirabelle pattern.

The sequins are here as I am hoping to add those to bullion knots as part of the surface embroidery on this piece.

 

Jewellery pouches.

 

Two jewellery pouches in progress.

The white piece is almost finished. The patchwork piece is just beginning.

When these are drawn up with a drawstring they will be small, delicate and dainty with the base fabric measuring just seventeen inches.

Both will have an embroidered lining and a hand made cord to fasten them. 

I am using exclusively Liberty 'Little Mirabelle' Tana lawn for the patchwork.

It's so very pretty. 

How many one inch hexagons?

 

The ongoing patchwork marathon.

If this is new to you there's a post here which will update you on what I am doing with this patchwork piece.

It's definitely growing but I am resisting measuring it.

I'm just going to keep going and keep going. 

I am using almost exclusively Liberty Tana lawn and there are a couple of close ups so you can see the pattern mix.

Also....it looks like a map of the world ha ha. 

That isn't intentional!

Sorry I've been missing.

Illness is the culprit.

I'm hoping to be back to my super fit and healthy self soon! 

Oh and feel free to count the hexagons and let me know!! 

A few sequins

 

New sequins from Paris.

A notebook.

Fourteen French knots.

A tiny design exercise. 

Still here

 

Hi everyone, how are you?

It's been a while. 

Things have been hectic here since I returned from my trip to Paris.

In addition to tackling  piles of laundry I have a dose of man flu kindly gifted by my 

two year old grandson otherwise known as the super spreader. 

He is of course forgiven because he is so cute! 

Today though, a glimpse for you of some of my Paris haul. 

Now to find homes for it all. 

One inch hexagons.

 

It's definitely growing.

You can compare it to here. 

This is a lifetime commitment ha ha.

I want it single bed size and that scares me. 

I'm not even looking to check how big that actually is.....don't tell me. 

This is made completely with Liberty Tana Lawn.

That's a bonus.

It means I need to keep buying Liberty Tana Lawn! 

I also gave in to temptation and removed some of the templates.

Very satisfying. 

I'll be missing for a while from today.

I'm going here.

Behave yourselves whilst I'm gone. 

x 

Embellishing silk velvet and cotton scrim.

 

Lace cloth created from silk velvet and cotton scrim.

This is the base of a new pouch, a new drawstring pouch. 

The lace cloth I created in this post has now been completely embellished by hand.

I have used buttonhole stitch, chain stitch and French knots, adding Swarovski crystals in selected areas.

The remainder of this pouch will be embellished too.

How, I'm not quite sure yet. 

 

Silk velvet and cotton scrim

 

Creating a surface for hand embroidery using silk velvet and cotton scrim.

This will be embellished by hand using buttonhole stitch, French knots, chain stitch and Swarovski crystals. 

Books, embroidery, fabric and paper.

 Lots of images today!

A shop update.

 

I finally got round to listing these three books in the shop.

All hand embroidered.

Gingham, Liberty fabric, white tissue.....

French knots, bullion knots, web stitches, little scraps of ribbon. 

There are lots more images on the individual listings if you want to take a look.

x