Hmm, I’m
thinking I need to stop getting on the internet, Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr,
and blogs. Oh the blogs! Okay I went and started yet another project. I really
would like to force myself to finish something before I can start a new something
but there’s too much eye candy and too much fabric and thread tempting me.
So I’m
cruising the web and come across a Summer Stitching group, well I can stitch
all year long but this one just caught my eye. I must confess that I really
wanted to see what the setup was and how it operated. And well the creator was
offering the “class” at a discount so there you go.
The creator
is Mollie at Wild Olive and the “class” is really booked as a “club”. I’ve seen
Mollies work around for some time and love her cute little faces on everything.
Just couldn’t resist them. We’re making hexagon blocks (something I’ve never
done) with hand embroidery (something I’ve done since forever) on some of them.
It’s a
summer theme and each week we get a new embroidery design to work and turn into
a block. I’m keeping up (kinda , sorta– need to prepare some more of
non-embroidered ones). Here are the first three embroidered ones.
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| Embroidered "Cat" Sunglasses |
I couldn’t
resist turning the sunglasses into a fifties style with cat eyes.
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| Embroidered Intense Sun |
For the sun I
did more than just an outline stitch, I thought since the summer sun is so
intense it needed some pumping up so I did a satin stitch with a ring of French
knots inside and added some French knots to the ends of the rays. I think this
is my favorite so far.
But then there’s the swimsuit. Haha just couldn’t get
the song “she wore an itsy, bitsy yellow polka dot bikini” out of my mind.
Okay
well it’s not really a bikini and the polka dots are lime green rather than
yellow you you get the point.
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| Embroidered Polka Dot Swimsuit |
Here’s the
background fabrics I’m using ,I’ll probably bind it with a sandy fabric. I
might do a small border with some deep red. The rose flower fabric is fussy
cut so that I have flower(s) in the center of each hexagon.
The blue is for
my swimming pool which I am very much enjoying this summer and the green is for
the shade of my trees.
Summer fun!
Happy Stitching!
Rose
