Sort of mid week crafting..

From my lovely week off I appear to have fallen quiet, but now I am back into the swing of things at work, I am now back in the swing of doing things in the evening. Tonight must say was productive, on top of doing all my chores (okay, skipped the bathroom, tomorrow I'll do it), I set about working on finishing off the stumpwork and got myself set-up for the next project. It will look familiar...

Organised chaos or just chaos?

Somewhere on this desk, I have the frame (on the right), and here you can see that I am just making some notes on sizes for the mount and what size I need to cut my card for the actual mounting of the embroidery. So much mounting..no pun intended..maybe a little.

Here I have cut the card, covered it in a basic white cotton, and laid the embroidered fabric on top and have started pining round, gently pulling the fabric taut, and the grain as straight as I can possibly get it without going insane in the process. I'll admit I am already pretty loopy.

Look a mini version of the bird, at least I can say I've pretty much covered every angle. Although tempted to do a tissue holder version too....although after this one, I might take a break on this design to work on the bee bits and pieces. Speaking of bees still waiting for the web button from the BBKA, better drop them an email tomorrow.

Enough about me, what are you working on? Do you craft in the evening, even after a long day at work?

Sunday Update

Making this week has come to a bit of a halt, after last week’s diving through hoop after hoop of embroidered piece of work. The reason being is mainly down to having returned to work, and secondly I’ve been in Cumbria, Penrith to be precise, celebrating a very good friend’s marriage. So time hasn’t been on my side.

I have had the odd bit of time to work out my next projects, and I will hopefully be working on those over the next couple of weeks. There will be a small return to the Paradise Bird and a play about with a new theme. The latter, like the bird, will have multiple uses and I can’t wait to get cracking. I have also had a thought about more custom work/designs perhaps something that can be adapted for wedding gifts. Thoughts so far on that would be the Paradise Bird but to include a date, time or even a name.

Things to ponder!

In terms for the progress on the business side of things there isn’t at present anything to report, other than I have a lot to get reading, so I have to start pulling my finger out and get started.

Hope, everything is well with you, and whilst I have been slack in stitching, what have you been up to?

Paradise Bird - Thinking...

The embroidery is complete but the actual finished piece, the mounting, is yet to take place. 

Whilst stitching the stars and applying the crystal details, I had a thought, instead of stitching it on the round like the last one, I would mount it square in shape and get a round mount cut, so it looks like its in a round window. My embroidery hoop is demonstrating the idea, sort of.

Thinking...