While watching True Blood
I have more plain green aprons available in my ArtFire shop, if you would like to embroider (or paint) your own!
Did I mention that I love taking pics of my embroidery and fabric at this angle?
Gotta go back to work… kthxbye
Happy (late) Mother’s Day to all of the mommies out there, especially the new mommies!
Yesterday, we went to the Mother’s Day Brunch at the Gaylord Texan. Nowhere near cheap, but totally worth it! It’s really nice to dress up and be catered to.
Still super yummy and I completely over-ate!
There was a little bit of sewing and embroidery this weekend! After fighting with my White sewing machine for most of Friday night, I cleared off my Singer sewing machine and plopped down in front of it on Saturday morning. My goal was to finish my Spring Ruffle Top #2 before I had to leave for the day. So close! I was done (minus one pocket) and in the dryer… but not dry. Oh well!
After Mother’s Day brunch, we had a couple of hours to relax at home. So, I picked up the second pocket and started to embroider it. I finished this pocket and sewed it on, so I could wear my pretty now top to work today!
Happy Cherries & Happy Mother’s Day!
I finished this one yesterday afternoon and immediately wore it for a couple of hours. My friends already wanna snatch it off of my body! I absolutely love it! I’m sad that I have eviction court tomorrow, so I can’t wear it. (sad face!)
I haven’t started #2 because we are all hungover from MC Chris last night and loud noises are bad. I guess I could cut the fabric and get it started.
This cute fabric is going to be this Spring Ruffle Top, that I saw on Sew, Mama, Sew via Craftzine! Candice, Allison & AJ are going to be super jealous!
Off to start sewing! Bye!
= Over-The-Bed Wallhanging
It IS DONE!!! WHEW!!!
I finished this last night and I couldn't wait to hang it up! But, I did want to wait until today to take pictures because I got new nightstands, lamps, curtain rods and sheets today. Mom says I'm nesting before Robyn & Ray move in.
The story of the wall hanging? Well, when Lowe's cut the wood for my headboard, there was a left over piece that was the same width. I figured it would make for something fantastic to hang over the bed. So, when I picked out the headboard fabric and buttons, I picked more fabric the same color as the buttons and batting to cover the extra piece of wood.
The designs are something I must have come across in a library book, because I had copied them and had them in one of my many pattern binders. I changed the left corner design to make it a little less foo-foo, since that is Erik's side of the bed. I know the design on the right (my side) is a variation of a "blue onion" design, normally seen on kitchen items.
After a couple of weeks of dragging the blue fabric to work and stitching in my spare time, I finished it. It is so pretty it makes my tummy flutter! It's rare that I am this proud of one of my projects. Please excuse my gloating.
You can see close-ups of the embroidery in my Flickr by clicking here.
SQUEE!!!
. I had to go over the outline with white washable pencil to make it brighter, then I embroidered it! The markings really started to fade toward the end, but I got it finished. I think it took me a whole 5 hours from start to finish and I am very impressed with the results!! I would definitely make more of these shirts for him with his other tattoos, or even just add to this one!
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Another hobby stash!!! Yes, that is embroidery in the picture. Yes, it is Sailor Moon. I took the image from this site, Lycentia's SM Graphics. This is actually on the back of a white pearl-snap shirt that used to be Erik's grandfathers.
. It worked fine for snow, thank goodness, but even after several ironings, it still leaves color on the paper. As for the 
, barely any color transferred to the paper, plus there was NO BLEEDING!
