Since a couple of year, Martine, a French embroidery teacher, offers an advent calendar to embroider via her website and instagram. Usually she publishes the main pattern on her website a couple of days before the start of December and then publishes one motif every day in December on Instagram as well as the explanation…
Category: Embroidery
Embroidered advent calendar 2016
The French website Artesane had a fun protect in December : make a embroidered advent calendar ! At the end of November, they published the trame of the calendar that was composed of 24hexagons. And then every day in December they published a little motif to fill up one hexagon. I have chosen a blue and white hexagon fabric…
Blue squirrel
With the rest of the grey wool from my summer cardigan, I have knitted a simple square and embroidered a squirrel with big cross-stitches to make a pillow for our new sofa. I really like this model from Erin Black. She used Tunisian crochet but I did not have enough wool to use this technique…
First attempt at sashiko embroidery
The pair of jeans I am using to cycle to go to work every day is very worn out ! I wanted to do some embroidery on it to draw the eyes away from the knee section. When I saw Jenny Parker post last week, I was inspired to try some Japanese “Sashiko” embroidery on them. There…
Hello cushion
I had started to do the embroidery on a much darker blue polkadot fabric but I was not happy on how the “h” came out so I started again on a light blue polkadot fabric and used a different style of writing.
Tunisian crochet clutch
The issue fifty seven of Mollie makes had a tutorial to make a Tunisian crochet clutch. I like how dense the stitch is. I did not fancy the embroidery pattern given in the instruction so I have found another one online and it resembles more the original Erin black’s creation! In order to prevent the embroidery threat…
Last push before Christmas
I had time to finish a cross-stitched embroidery from Picoti Picota before Christmas
Christmas tag
My Sunday project ! The model is in the Cross stitch collection issue 256. I used a metallic red for a sparkling touch !
