619 miles

color inspired stitching

Inspired by colorful kitchen wares, I am ready to get stitching. I purchased a new embroidery pattern from Sublime Stitching. It is THE most amazing embroidery site ever! The pattern i bought is called Epic Alphabet and it's a mix of House Industries' typefaces that look so fun to stitch. Check out the Sublime Stitching blog for more info on this pattern as well as some more awesome stuff that Jenny Hart, Sublime Stitching owner, is making.

She asked fans of her facebook page to recommend words to be embroidered using the new pattern, and she picked "MERCI". I love this and I am loving the colors. I recently purchased four small throw pillows and I think I'll make embroidered covers for them. Now I just need to decide on the words. I think I'll do "sweet dreams" on one and maybe "xoxo" on another. Any other suggestions?

just a little homesick

Go figure I finish this project when I'm thousands and thousands of miles away from home for the next two months.

I started this little bit of embroidery back in May and finally finished it up last week. Nothing like a 7 hour flight to get something accomplished. I'm either going to make it into a small pillow or a wall hanging. I was inspired by this piece. I really enjoy embroidering my own handwriting so I'm searching for any quotes or sayings to do next. Any suggestions or ideas?

Last year I made this into a wall hanging for my friend Lisa, I copied it from this artwork I stumbled across on-line. I wish I could locate the original source for this. If you know, please share.

busy busy & a day-late shout out

packing. sewing (uniforms, rank... not fun stuff). cleaning. running errands. last minute shopping. messing up house with packing. laundry. LOTS going on around here, I'm trying to finish up some projects before I head out of the country. Hopefully I can reveal some "afters" this weekend. Until then, just a couple snapshots of what I've been up to.I did pack a bunch of colorful sharpies, some glue sticks and fun tape to work on the goodness book I picked up from Elise on etsy. I also downloaded some cool new patterns from Sublime Stitching to do some embroidery. And lastly "packed" on my external hard drive are the December Daily digital overlays from Ali Edwards. I'm going to attempt this project for the first time, and I'm hoping to just do it digitally since I won't be buying any cool paper or anything like that over there.

And now for the day-late shout out:

To any veterans or currently serving military peeps that may read my blog: Happy day after Veteran's day! Thank you for your service and dedication to our country! And special thanks specifically the gals I know in the service... you all ROCK big time!
 
packing sure makes things a mess

in the midst of it all Reese brings me her water dish

and drops it right in my lap
 
is she being helpful and bringing me my hat?

nope. she just wants to play tug-o-war, which is definately more fun than packing!!