Three more fabric headers.

 

Following on from my last post.....three more headers for hand embroidered samples.

There are four more waiting to be done, I'm slowly getting there. 

Piecing and pinning.

 

Just putting a small piece together, using my stash of Liberty fabrics on a silk dupion base.

There are prairie points here and there will be Suffolk puffs.

I'm thinking minimal embroidery, perhaps just a little stab stitch to secure these pieces. 

Hopefully the Suffolk puffs will add enough of a finishing touch on here. 

easy embroidery.....

I have a real and burning desire to spend time on intense embroidery. I missed it whilst I was away but so far this week haven't been able to plan or focus. I have had the usual post holiday stuff to do and some hospital visiting too, the need for which arose whilst I was away. I see Monday as my focus for ''normality'' returning. It's kind of a plan, it may change but hopefully not. In the meantime, when I haven't been dozing in the chair through some kind of enforced Narcolepsy I have been taking care of the slow, easy, no thought required things. Tacking and pinning, new white pieces being formed along with little ball buttons.

A good example of my current sleep state is that I sat down last night at around 8.55 to stitch slowly and gently, the next thing I knew it was 10.45........you get the picture. I have however managed to put a new blog and flickr group together for the class that starts next week. Registration and interest is great...thanks so much to all of you, I am humble....and if you would like more information you can find it here.....otherwise today will be hospital visiting and if I can stay awake, more embroidery, embroidery of the gentle kind.

pressing, pinning and tacking...

happiness is......gorgeous, wonderful, amazing fine cotton lawn, cut, folded and pressed into prairie points. Yesterday afternoon....pressing points, pinning points and tacking them to an edge of toe wrap two.

It stopped after the tacking stage, I had hooks and eyes to hand sew to the backs of my white pieces. Yesterday I said goodbye to  ''wrapping cloth one''. Today I have to go to the post office. I will miss it but it's going to a wonderful new home and I couldn't be happier, I know it will be cherished.

toe wrap two...

Well howdy doody!! I'm back from my travels, safe and sound with a big box of chocolates and a home made cake! worth the trip for the goodies don't you think? Consequently there has been very little activity with a needle going on, none at all infact. So.. deprived of new stitching to show you I formulated a cunning plan.....pin together toe wrap two and show the possibilities of how this is going to look when it's finished. What do you think? I know that technically this is cheating, getting you here under false pretences but I can be quite devious when I put my mind to it. Mind you, the fact that I illustrate said deviousness for you so openly in black and white kind of means I'm not really that good at it.

There may have been a lack of needle activity but there has been a positively humungous amount of this going on. Printing, cutting, wrapping, posting...I can now announce that NOBODY will be waiting for a book much longer! Thay have now ALL been given to the nice postman and are winging their way as we speak...phew!

Tonight I hope there will be a lot of embroidery going on in my little corner. Tommorow you will not be cheated having to look at old stuff. For the rest of today I have to write, plan, sort out pictures. Remember I said I had a guest post coming up? Well it it's due a week on saturday, over here, a great platform for me so I don't want to mess it up. Therefore I am planning, yes planning like I have never planned before.

and...I am so excited....there is something very exciting happening soon. Can't really say too much more but can't keep my mouth shut either.....  when I heard I had to go and lie down in a darkened room.

fiddling about....

The daylight hours of yesterday were mostly spent cleaning...yes you read that right...cleaning. Giving me a couple of days clear run to not have to think about anything other than sewing...bliss. What did I do last night, started on hexagons, sketchbooks in mind. I was making good progress too until I decided it would be a good idea to tip a cup of coffee down myself!! One hour, one shower, more cleaning (getting the coffee up) and the ironing of clean clothes later I was back on the hexagons. So not much to show really for my well planned evening...Oh well, these things are sent to try us and all that.

This morning I had planned to put together another section for toe wrap two. Not to be sent off track I laid the pile of unstitched hexagons to one side....well away from the coffeee!! and another section is now pinned with more prairie points.

These three little hexagon flowers will find their way into my new sketchbooks, soon I hope but don't hold your breath. Each book has five stitched pieces in, I want to make six books, so that's thirty little pieces of embroidery required...three down twenty seven to go...

Now an invitation....do you have a hankering to dig, to rip up roads and pavements?? Come here, right outside my front door. Why not? everyone else has!! My other half is a nurse, on night shift, allegedly sleeping through today...ha!! We have the gas board digging the road up, we have the council digging the road up to renew tarmac so the gas board can dig it up. We have an unknown organisation pulling up paving slabs, the paving slab destruction company no doubt..

cave living tempting anyone else?

finishing....

I am busy today finishing this....