Hey there. Been busy crafting and doing the dental tooth cleaning thing. Oh Whoopi Do! I get to have two new crowns. Enough bad news and on to the good. Spring is closer. The weather is acting bad so Spring must be very close.
Here is tag number 12 in the tag challenge. The prompt was to use blanket stitch. I was not entirely happy with the outcome. So be it.
This is tag number 13. Prompt was layering. Had fun with this one. I have some cotton fabric with Fall leaves scattered across it and they work very well to fussy cut out and then use thread to tack/embroider down. Now I have to wait till next Friday to fined out what the next tag will be all about. If you need to know, the button is an authentic vintage button from my Mothers button tin.
Here is the beginning of my latest embellishments that I did finish today. It came together by sheer accident. I had a stack of cotton bits and pieces on the end of my sewing machine and the stack fell over and the yellow was on the green and the striped one was laying right next to them and bidda-bom-bidda-bing and lights went off in my head and there I was with the next embellishment.
I am auditioning the items I think I want to include in this fabric piece. I will move them about to see if I like the layout and do the items work together. They did for me.
What is here. Every thing is built up on a cotton hand dyed shebory fabric (I am sure that spelling is not correct) that I still had a scrap of. Then there is the red, green,and brown stripped bit and across that is a bit of hand dyed yellow with rust stains. I added a bit of commercial lace along the left side. across the top are clay beads held down with black embroidery floss. I save my left over thread when I hand sew and plucked out a small bunch to add a bit of thread freedom under the button and to fill that blank corner. I did running stitch up and down the stripped fabric. I liked the
way it looks with the lines crossing each other. I also did running stitch in a circle on the yellow as I wanted to give the eye something to look at besides right angles. I am well pleased with this one. I now have four completed and will list them on Market Place.
What have I gotten myself into? What you see here is a wee bit of tatting. I never fined tatted lace the charity shops and would like to use it in the construction of my junk journals. So me being me I am trying to learn tatting from Youtube University. I can tell you right now it is not easy. Some of those people should not try to teach anything. They show you just a smidge and then drop you on your head. I have thrown away at least ten little circles with little ears on them. The best professor I have found so far is Vietnamese (I think) and she is very clear in what she is showing as she speak no American English. I will stick with her and see how far I get.
Well enough for now I need to get my dishes done and put myself to bed. Ta for now.
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