More Jacket Designs

Here are two more designs on my jean jacket.  The first is a mermaid because that's one of my nicknames.  Mermaid design by Aimee Ray. The second is Art Nouveau flowers, the flowers are light blue, but it's hard to tell in the picture.  Flower design found on the internet.

What I've Been Up To

I moved around the beginning of December.  I didn't give up on creating.  Here are some pics of what I've been up to.

Embroidered Jacket - The Start

I'm going to embellish this jacket.  I've already got a few small motifs from trying out transfer techniques and I just finished the moon phases on the waist.  Moon phase design from Aimee Ray's Motif Collection book.

One for me, one for you

A successful experiment using Sulky Soft & Sheer stabilizer for stretch fabrics. Design from Aimee Ray's "The Motif Collection". That's me wearing the hot pink tee, Rit-dyed. I used white DMC floss, all six strands.

Wedding photo printed out with peach tone from PhotoImpression program, pale yellow acrylic painted wood plaque, stickers, gold glitter, matte Mod Podge. Forgot to spray photo with hairspray, turned out OK anyway. Christmas gift for Mom.

New Embroidery Books and a Finished Coffee Pot

I got two new embroidery books in the mail today.  Yay!  The first one is "Doodle Stitching" by Aimee Ray which is full of cool project ideas, tips, and encouragement to make your own designs.  Nice!  The second one is "Embroidered Effects" by Jenny Hart.  This one is heavier on the tips, has project ideas, and all-around general encouragement to do your own thing.  Plus iron-on transfers!  Sweet!  They both have stitch diagrams as well.  Aimee Ray has a new book, but it's not coming out until October.  I'll probably get that one too.  Here they are on my kitchen table.

I've been getting really jazzed up about embroidery.  I read most of the two books this afternoon.  I finished the coffee/tea pot tonight.  I think it looks like a fancy coffee pot.  My brother thinks it looks like a teapot.  What do you think?  I guess it doesn't matter.  I used a split stitch on the handle, spout and top knob of the coffee pot.  I haven't used that much before this project.  I only know about 5 stitches anyway that I have no trouble doing, satin, stem, split, back, cross, fern.  I can make those little stars too. So much fun!  OK, here is the coffee pot, finished.  It is all in shades of pink:  hot pink, med. light pink, and very light pink for the steam coming out of the pot.