Market Finds and Tutorial Design

Just a wee post today, I want to take advantage of the cooler weather today to get on with the stitching, I am way behind on a couple of projects owing to the heat (sweaty hands do not aide sewing). I didn't crack on with it first thing this morning as I nipped out with my mum to go over to Midhurst to have a mooch around the junk shops and market. There was plenty I could have brought, but I was pretty self controlled, and purchased just a couple of small items. Easier to pack! 

Double the value - cute old tin, full of buttons! Bargain for £4.50

Tiny little petite stitch brooch - £3

Naturally I didn't either of them, but I got them anyway. The brooch makes a welcome addition to my other antique and costume brooches. 

Now for those who get my monthly newsletter they will have already known that my next Honeycomb Tutorial, will be satin stitch. What they haven't seen is the design. Admittedly I had hoped to get the tutorial done by now, but life has somewhat overtaken my free time, and I have it now in place to work on post move, in a fortnight, so it will be in August (fingers crossed). I thought in the mean time I will show you what the design will look like. Okay, colours don't match my Honeycomb colour palette, I had to work with what I could lay my hands on. But you get the general gist, little satin sweets! Which means the tutorial name is going to be Satin Sweets. Don't roll your eyes! Hehehe

I hope you all enjoying your weekend, wherever you are in the world! Will be posting tomorrow about the progress of my latest embroidered quote. Bye for now!

Return of the Bees

Nice to get back to stitching my bees once more. 

I stitched the ring in the centre of the clock last week, as its going to be used for my next mirror design, but it's kind of two for the price of one as it's also for my next clock. 

Actually this clock...

Ring of Bees Hand Embroidered Wall Clock

Size: 13 (w) x 13 (h) x 2.5 (d) cm - 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 1 inches (approx)

Materials: Cotton threads, linen, card, wooden hoop, and a quartz clock mechanism.

More bees on the horizon though, I need to work on the pouches for the mirrors, well once I have ordered the actually mirrors. I also got a bit sidetracked this afternoon I made a tiny bee brooch, whether or not I'll actually make more of them I am not entirely sure but I might gauge your opinions on it...

It's a tiny gold bee, which was stitched in gold check purl, over stitched with stranded cotton, on the back of the brooch it's backed with Liberty Tana Lawn fabric. It's just under 2.5cm in diameter.

What do you think?