A ring of conifer tree silhouettes directing the viewer’s eye up to the sky above. This fabric print - sized for a 6-inch embroidery hoop - creates a design base for your creative project or as is for a hoop art print. Use the space for simple embroidery, stitching in a few knots for your own constellations, or fill in the trees for a 3D, textured effect and more involved project. My kofi backers got one of these with their April sticker rewards. I’ll be putting them up in the shop there soon!
I finally finished my skirt! It's taken me about 880 hours, and I'm so happy to be done. It's a double circle skirt with a hem circumference of 42 feet; needless to say, the embroidery took a long time, especially as I don't have an embroidery machine and did it all by hand instead.
It's insane to think about how much time this took; when I started, i thought it would take maybe two months at most. It's now been about ten months of work, at a rate of roughly 1.5 inches of embroidery per day on average.
This has been, by far, the biggest project I've ever taken on, and I just want everyone to know that if I can do this, so can you. So start that big project you're afraid of committing to. You can do it.
I haven't shared my embroidery with people in a long time, so I figured I would start. Rambling special interest details and a description of the piece under the cut!
This piece was created for a show my embroidery tutor was entering her students in. The original idea was to do the entire background in blackwork with only the word standing out, but somewhere along the line I ran out of the will to live and stopped. Given the sentiment of the piece, I think it's fitting. I did get it submitted to the show on time though, much to the surprise of my tutor (and myself - I have adhd).
This is blackwork embroidery in 6" hoop done on something silly like 40ct or 52ct white evenweave fabric, using a single stand of blue variegated cotton thread (I think it's Gentle Arts 'Mediterranean Sea'), with metallic silver thread couched down to outline the word "ugh."
I did some embroidery :> (literally like a few months ago I guess I just didn't post it)
Not on the gloves YET but on a denim hat I'm gonna wear for Halloween. I was home sick from school so I had some time to finish it (I started it last night)
Lol I just looked at it & thought it looked like a fish look lol
But anyway I also put a pocket onto 1 of my gloves :> still working on it but I think it's going good :> I'm probobly gonna put chapstick or pins in there or smth maybe a very tiny journal
I'd like to introduce you to my son, I have yet to give them a name ;>
I'm planning on making another pair w/ these dollar store socks (I didn't finish it lol)
Short timelapse video of me continuing to hand stitch on my starry salmon embroidery print design. The white outline is complete, here I am working in some of the space cloud interior in 3 strands of blue floss.
So continuing my trend of "be the change you want to see in the world (from the comfort of your sofa)", another embroidery piece! As usual, details under the cut.
This is a Chinese water deer skull, my second attempt at a skull. I stitched this a few years ago but never actually finished mounting it because of who I am as a person.
Because I enjoy suffering, the moon is couched gold metallic thread, with the blackwork pattern stitched in a single stand of gold thread. It's difficult to make out, but there's also some drapey thread in metallic opalescent thread, anchored with some French knots.
The bit I really dislike now are the silk shaded apple blossoms. My skill has progressed since then, which is probably why this one was never gifted to its intended recipient. I am highly critical of myself and would like to redo this at some point.
The fabric is white quilting cotton with a white-on white spotted pattern, stretched into an 8" hoop.
ID: the skull of a Chinese water deer rests on a golden crescent moon with arrows stitched into it, pointing down. There are apple blossoms to the left and behind the skull, and to the right of the skull there's opalescent thread draping off the moon.