Hello, void. I hope you are well. I am ok. Not making the best choices always. But never giving up.
A few weeks ago I was at my parents’ for dinner and my mom showed me this cool embroidery project in a quilting magazine. You melt crayons on fabric and then backstitch around the image. I loved it because it was a lot of color and only the backstitch is required. I created this little hummingbird.
I loved the end product – and so made some little cutie pie images using this technique to be included in a quilt for my favorite 1-year old.
I interspersed these with some pieced blocks and made a color explosion of a quilt. I really didn’t have a cohesive color plan with this quilt – focusing more on the fun i-spy blocks. The result reminds me of my childhood. Kids’ stuff was brightly colored – there was no curation – just SPLASH!
This quilt was a lot of sewing. I thought this would cure the embroidery bug.
It didn’t.
I found namaste embroidery on the Instragrams and watched her little videos over and over and over again. And then I watched her longer videos and made her free beginner project.
Just too adorable, right? And so so so much easier than I thought it would be. And so much faster than making a quilt. This took me about 2 swoon blocks worth of time. 🙂
And then I bought all of the patterns and all of the embroidery thread and delighted in what a cheap hobby this is, especially compared to quilting. This was the second thing I made, also a pattern by namaste embroidery.
And now I have two other projects underway. This darling little succulent and floral pattern.
And this sweet little christmas pattern. Based on another namaste embroidery pattern, with some additions by me. These pine branches/leaves are beyond fun to make.
I did a lot of patchwork/quilting over the long weekend. Not abandoning that anytime soon. But embroidery is the bomb. I won’t be able to get back to it for a couple days. Let’s hope I can keep by shit together until then.
weeknight quilting 