A little embroidery related shopping trip.

 

I've been away. Did you miss me?

I went to London and I went shopping...all things embroidery related.

A video show and tell. 

 

labels.....

Look at my amazing new labels courtesy of AnnaWell they weren't free but you know what I mean. I'm sorry to tell you though that I think she has shut up shop but you can always sign up to be notified when she opens again. These are already spoken for, three christmas presents sorted and ticked off my list now, only about fifty more to go!! If you like these there are some in the shop. They don't have the new labels on but I can easily remedy that.  

I managed to get to the show yesterday too, courtesy of my good friend who acted as chauffer for the day. I spent a little bit, oh well o.k. I spent quite a lot but I think I've been a good girl this year and I deserve it. This beautiful fabric with birds I just couldn't resist. I won't use it in my work but I have visions of it becoming ''something'' for my bedroom in the future and look at that selvedge. It makes me drool, well worth the money just for the gorgeous selvedge.

I also bought lace, white lace and more fabric, bottom picture. The floral piece was also too enticing to ignore, for some reason it reminds me of when I was a little girl. So far I have no firm plans for any of this, truth be told I have merely spent hours fondling it!!

In addition to all this embroidery gorgeousness I bought myself a very pretty, detailed  framed stitched picture depicting the fairy tale the Princess and the Pea. I maintain that I too would sense a pea in my bed under 20 matresses, being an actual princess and everything! That is going in my bedroom too and I promise to show you soon.

fresh

fresh fabric, fresh pouches and a fresh start. I am leaving all that nonsense behind me, I have removed the link from this blog to that blog, I am slowly watermarking every single image I have ever placed on the internet and as they say, ''today is the first day of the rest of your life''. So here are my new pouches. What do you think? I love them, they are so cheery and summery . There are only three, yes that magic number again! and they are not listed yet because I am waiting for someone to tell me which one they want, they have first dibs. I shall be listing two of them tomorrow sometime.Now I enjoy working with all this colour it is so refreshing but I guess you can't escape your roots. My hankering for white returns at regular intervals so last night white fabric was strewn around my lounge whilst I mixed and matched a few pieces for more work. I get such a sense of 'belonging' when I am working with white. Is that wierd? Or do you understand? Hard to explain but a reality non the less. Next time I hope to show you that but in the meantime I am really struggling to find white fabrics to work with. I have googled and googled but no success. I am quite picky and prefer cotton, linen or silk. I'm not really a lover of synthetic fabric so maybe that's my problem. I do know where I can buy it in the flesh so to speak but it's a long drive so I'm resisting although I think I may have no option soon. I will keep you posted on that one.
and I wanted to ask.....do you block people on flickr who add you as a contact but have no images of their own on there?? I don't add them as contacts but wondered should I block them too.
**** the person with first pick has picked the one with the funky puffs!! The other two are now listed.****