Here are some of the new projects I'm working on. I picked up cross-stitch from my Aunt, and made my grandma a cute piece with a little boy and girl on a path between two houses, with the saying "There's no place like home except for grandma's." I was quite proud of it, but a lot of work goes into cross-stitch so I didn't continue once I went on to high school.
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But I remember how cute cross-stitch is and when my friend (
Jellybeans) mentioned she was trying it out, I couldn't resist going out to get some Aida cloth, an embroidery hoop and a magazine with some small patterns in it.
Can you guess which patterns really sold that book to me???
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These adorable little buns are going to be made into some pretty little tags. Or maybe some fun little notebooks.. I just have to decide what to do with the edges to prevent the Aida cloth from unravelling... some sort of stitch should do the trick, but I want it to be pretty. So we'll see what happens.
The process is the fun part!I've always wanted to sew and make things with beautiful material. I've picked up a needle every now and again, but I haven't been able to find any fun projects to do. I picked up some felt at the same time as the Aida cloth and other supplies, and I figured I could stitch together a few stuffed ornaments for starters.
And then I came across
Wee Wonderfuls and a few of Hillary Lang's free patterns. This one is for a darling pig. I cut out the felt and started stitching him up last night.
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Then I ran out of black embroidery floss, or else surely he would have been finished and not left in this sad state...
earless, empty and eviscerated...
(OK, that was a little dramatic, but I like alliterations and I was trying to get at the hole in his back and the missing innards.)![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9NVcfTtU1HE1L7PnigXKmuLtre-fhmux71ZXe-92yYSnuADRfLDZWbszxcclaBM_3e_7uWL_zLkCe-bvpd8wnKUnMJIJ-68K4_DOqUP1iRJXidd1wgQuie3OKXYIYrx6j0EmST03oZGH/s320/DSC02261+%28Medium%29.JPG)
The pattern is just so cute. I'm looking forward to finishing him this weekend after a trip to the mall.
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I didn't have any pink felt, or this little pig definitely would have been pink. I'm kind of glad though,
I'm liking this little black pig.
On a side note, he's sitting on my new silk-covered notebook from
pamelatang. It's a gorgeous notebook and I've already collaged the first page. I'll post on that soon.