I had something slightly more ambitious in mind, but it was taking too long, so I quit here.
Thing-a-day 26: Embroidered Scene
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Thing-a-day 25: French Knots!
The first few (dozen) times I tried the round embroidery stitch called a French knot, my stitches knotted too soon, and they looked like crap. Then I managed to do a couple clean, and felt like I’d gotten it.
So I ripped out all my failed stitches and tried French knots in 5 different sizes … in these breaking waves. Yay!
Thing-a-day 22: Finished Kitty
I straight-stitched the stripes on and then sewed front to back and stuffed kitty. Not exactly the result I’d planned, but I’m making progress matching the result to the intent.
The eyes are much lighter in this picture only partly because they light was different; in the first picture, the fabric and floss were still wet from being rinsed.
Thing-a-day 21: More Embroidered Features
This is the face for a felt + embroidery stuffed toy. My next thing is adding stripes, sewing the back, and stuffing.
This is from a simple design I sketched (and then, oddly, ended up reversing horizontally when I freehanded the silhouette onto the felt).
Thing-a-day 20: Plushie with Embroidery
I had some trouble with the thing I meant to finish today, and this piece is a bit of experimentation to get a better handle on the fabric. Also an attempt at embroidered features. Baby steps!
Thing-a-day 17: Branch
Continuation of Thing 16:
Learning a different stitch (split stitch). I made a nest out of herringbone stitches, but it ended up looking just plain awful!
Thing 16: Trying Out Embroidery
Making the Frederick quilt reminded me how much I’d like to have better options for decorating or giving features to small stuffed toys without having to do a ton of cutting (as for the 3 separate pieces for each of Frederick’s eyes) or gluing (to add on plastic googly eyes). A couple of weeks ago, I ordered an adorable book called Doodle Stitching, by Aimee Ray, and tonight I copied one of her illustrations and used a single stitch (backstitch) to embroider it.
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I don’t really know how to explain this Victorian streak I’m manifesting, but this month is turning out to be a good excuse to try out lots of little things.