Happy spring!

It is half of May already!

There are flowers everywhere. 

The lavish pink blooms are really show-stopping. Is it a female thing to love pink?

I did a good-for-nothing embroidery yesterday. 

The book "Jorful Stitching" shows many wonderful stitched patterns. the photos were unique as well as inspiring.  It encourages the readers to fill out the motif with different stitches to create a textured surface. My experiment here is less pretty than the pictures in the book.  I should take it as a practice piece, right?

Enjoy the spring flowers!

 

Bindu

Finding Inspiration

Some days, I feel stuck. I can't find a project to do. The colours feel dull.

Those days, I like to turn pages of craft magazines. 

I found an advertisement on a magazine page, which caught my attention.

It was calling me to do something with it.

The image was traced to fabric and stitched:

I used an outline stitch in two strands of black thread. 

I might use it again to stitch with flowers or words.

Right now, she seems fine in her thinking mode. 

 

Bindu

Cat Heart, embroidery

I bought a book called "Colour your own Greeting Cards". 

I transferred this cat image to fabric to do embroidery. No idea what to do with the piece though.

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Not so cute,yet

I was trying my hands on embroidery 

Hand embroidery on Instagram is very inspiring. 

I have more experience with crochet.

I have to try my hands at new things.

Another reason is the cost of yarn.

Embroidery is still less expensive.

I can use any type of fabric as my canvas.

This yellow shirt is one experiment.

Traced a star shape. then free-handed flowers!

 

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Little things crafty.

Sometimes, I buy T Shirts on sale . It may be the color or the design I like. 
I bought a Guess T-shirt from the outlet mall. At home, I realized, the V-neck is little too wide. 
A little upcycling is necessary. There was another white t-shirt, which is not long enough. So I cut a piece to fit inside the new printed shirt. 

I didn't sew the piece. Used heat bond to adhere the white piece on the red one. The black line is from a washable marker, I used to mark the neck. I am thinking of adding a few red flowers on the white to match the shirt. After that it will have my touch on it. 
Do you like to add your touch to new items bought from the shop?

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