Mini Floral Sprig from Mary Corbett

Here's a tiny srrig of flowers that in reality only takes a wee bit of tome to accomplish. I wasn't happy with my Fishbone Stitch so it was taken out a couple times. It's good linen so no problem. The pattern is on Mary Corbett's NeedleNThread, click on the Patreon tab.

Tiny stitches

On not so fine linen. Has a soft hand and will make for a nice hanky.

Tiny Fishbone Stitches! Camping & Embroidery! Pin Stitched hem.

Needle Painting Prep & Practice

A little bit of Needle Painting. Thankful to Mary Corbett for her pouring into the needle arts community month after month with beautiful, inspiring and creative embroidery. She shared this little pattern "Stitching Exercise for Needle Painting".

Choosing colors from what I have on hand. I may need to adjust my greens a bit, there is something not quite right. 

I used the prick'n pounce method of transfer with charcoal. Then traced it with a sepia pen. 

Embroidered Collar for Grand Daughter's Dress

This collar set will go on an 18 month size dress for one of my grand-daughters. The inspiration for the flowers comes from the flowers in the vintage dress fabric. Embroidered with DMC floss on a piece of white table cloth fabric from Grandma Crystal Thompson. The fabric is like a thick linen.

Stitches; Long & short Needle Painting, Lazy Daisy, French Knots, Stem Stitch & Blanket Stitch

Time to finish the embroidery.

"Feeding the Hens" Miniature Embroidery Design by Trish Burr

This took much longer to finish than I had hoped. I had some trouble sourcing the outline threads by Guterman. They were manufactured in various places and the color was off. Not sure why but my micron pen from Martha Stewart decided to misbehave this time and bled following some of the twill lines. I've never had that happen before with that pen. so there are some extra stitches to hide some of that. The chickens feet were done with bullion stitch and the rest with Long and Short. Added the grass to place the signature in. 

Her hair was done over a large tapestry needle to give it a bit of curl and then long 'turkey work' stitches to make the long braid. My daughter Hope did the braid and bow. Fun to see the personality of the child and chickens emerge.

It is a tiny 4.5 by 4.5 inches

This design is from a book reviewed on Mary Corbet's NeedleNThread website. The fabric is Cotton Sateen, it has a delicate twill. Softer than a cotton poplin and round plump threads so it is easy on your embroidery thread. A single strand of  DMC floss was used throughout and then outlined in various places with complimentary colors of Guterman Sew-All thread.

Carrickmacross

I had an adventure into making Carrickmacross Lace while I have been absent from my blog space. Remember this Kit from Tanja Berlin that I won on Mary Corbett's NeedleNThread.com ? It got me started and I was soon wanting more.

So I looked through Mary's collection of patterns and took an element from one of them to work in Carrickmacross.

I found a tutorial on Lyn's blog and worked through details. 

                     I procured some materials from Jo Firth. The quality is excellent. You can see how sheer , how fine. Most important is the Janome Lace scissors, excellent quality, great price.

A practice motif, whipped  chain stitch, and Couched cording. The thread is Guterman Cotton made in Greece size 50, the cording is DMC Cordonet  cotton size 30. The fabrics are English Net and cotton organdie. The Motif is my daughter creation.

With the Organdie basted over the net to begin the flowers and leaves. The tendrils are done with just simple chain stitch, one strand of cotton sewing thread. 

Yes, she is pretty happy with her veil.

Mini Needle Painting *Feeding The Hens*

There are so many different ways to approach needle painting  a face. Especially one that is smaller than a thumbprint. Choosing color, stitch direction, and details are perplexing. So this is coming along slowly,very slowly for a quick project that is less than 4" x 4".

Photography brings out all the flaws. 

Antique Watercolor Pansies

A little warm up exercise. 

Thank you Country Bumpkins publisher of Inspirations magazine , Mary Corbett of NeedlenThread , and Trish Burr for inspiration, designs and tutorials.  I can highly recommend all my stitching friends subscribe to Inspirations, subscribe to each of the blogs and get to know these lovely stitching friends. 

Miniature Needle Painting Embroidery- Vintage portraits, florals & birds by Trish Burr

I'm enjoying my copy of Trish's most recent book Miniature Needle Painting Embroidery. You can see a review  by Mary Corbett on Needlenthread and follow the link to order up your own copy. There is a pattern and instructions for a very pretty little needle book. Which reminds me there is a perfect ebook that just goes together well with miniature needle painting, Lavender Honey & Other Little Things. Trish Burr's Blog for more tips on needle painting and inspiration.

I anticipate many happy hours stitching. This is  "Watercolour Pansies" just a small warm-up. I'm looking forward to needlepointing "Feeding The Hens". 

Happy stitching!

Mon Cahier de Broderie Hoja 6 --A peak at the next page, 11

Well this lesson looked like an ornament to me so the fabric choices just had to be Christmas themed. Lots more to do and it's a very busy time of year!

Mon Cahier de Broderie Hoja 4, pages 7 & 8

My camera quit on me so I am borrowing one. Maybe you can tell it was going out by looking at my last post. Maybe you can also see that these photos are also not up to par. The real thing is a delightful learning experience.

The following monogram samples are from Mary Corbett's Needle N Thread Patterns.

3,2,1 Finished! Gentle Touch Blanket design by Susan O'Connor

A Blessed finish to a very enjoyable embroidery project. From the preparation of the Wool Challis by  withdrawing threads to the embroidery of pastel flower motifs with wool and silk threads it has been a feast of beauty for the heart and soul. Mary Corbett has a book review for Blissful Beginnings.