I'm a stay at home mum with two children living in Perth (Australia). I have a small business making personalised childrens T-Shirts and I'm planning on expanding into the machine embroidery market. I plan to write about my various sewing exploits in this blog.
I seem to be on a cushion thing, first the needle cushion and now I have made a pin cushion.
My new pin cushion (behind is my Samplers of Seduction piece
It is a machine embroidery in the hoop project from Urban Threads. I changed the colours because I wanted to use silver rather than gold. My software changed the first three colours (after the tacking down) into one colour, so it doesn’t have as much depth of colour.
The base fabric is canvas.
I am happy to have got my machine out and created something.
Once we had finished our toadstools, we needed a new project, but it needed to be quick (we only had two lessons left)
We made needle sharpening strawberries -the bottom two-thirds is filled with black emery powder.
My base fabric is a pink dupion silk (shot with green). I have used au ver รก soie silk d’alger threads.
I wanted to practise my bullion knots, so I have made bullion knot flowers and the centres are french knots. I then used fern stitch to create the vine (I saw it in the book Foolproof Flower Embroidery )
Then I added seed beads, bugle beads and sequins.
I used my cricut machine to cut felt leaves for the top. And I found two metal (plastic) leaves for the top (I think they’re jewellery charms).
Better view of the top
I made the cord using a drill and pearl cotton (here’s a tutorial video)
The base is half a felt dryer ball wrapped in felt. On the felt I have added french knots and bullion knots -I thought they would look like fungi and slaters.
I found some ‘treasures’ in Kings Park – the nut and the leaves. I varnished them (I am hoping that this what will stop them decaying).
The theme for May is nature. I decided to use Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. I first came across this poem in the book The Outsiders by S. E Hinton – it was an assigned text. I think we even watched the movie in class. This poem had quite the impact on me at the time (melodramatic 14 year old), and when I came across it the other day I thought I would like to embroider it.
I am experimenting with printable soluble stabiliser – it didn’t destroy my printer (so one concern is gone). Now it remains to be see how easily it comes off.
June’s theme is Family, but I haven’t thought about that yet.