I don’t have a whole lot of fabrics with yellow, not sure why. But this fabric is a beaut, with its lovely yellow scrolly pattern! I topped it off with the turquoise bow I made yesterday & that was that.
I actually noticed this fabric yesterday & knew it was next in line. Can’t go wrong with pink & polka dots.
I recently began making mini rag wreaths. They are cute little things that are only about 6 or 7 inches wide. And although not planned, I found myself making a new one every day. Each morning when I walked into my studio, I grabbed whichever fabric caught my fancy & began building. So I decided to make a thing of it, & will begin posting them here. Starting with the one I made today from tiger-striped fabric.
So this is sort of a follow-up to my garden art/bird perch post from almost exactly one year ago. Last July, I hung some old embroidery hoops in the garden. I did it for prettiness, but I also thought the birds might like them. I can’t say for sure if they did or if they didn’t, but this handsome purple clematis seems to think they are okay. And he was much easier to catch in the act.
These darling little trees are very easy to make & are made very quickly with precut rug yarn.
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Instructions:
Just add some pretty string & hang!
These fetching fellas are two of my favorite embroidered artworks. The blue-eyed gentleman on the left is a reproduction in needlepoint of a painting of a Dutch lifeboat captain by the name, Dorus Rijkers. In his lifetime, Rijkers saved hundreds of people from drowning.
Captain Rijkers is stitched from a vintage WonderArt kit titled “The Fisherman”
The monochrome embroidery is titled “Man Of The Sea”; and was stitched from a crewel kit made in the 70s by Paragon.
This large, colorful embroidery is one of my latest acquisitions.
Picture was created using a crewel kit named “Milady’s Dress Shoppe”. Made by Vogart Crafts in 1976.
Embroidery has lots of details; the napping kitty is my favorite bit.
Knitting needles that have lost their mates make excellent plant markers. I use these giant needles to mark plants while I am weeding a new bed.
Eventually, I think I will be creating a border from them and other found objects like old screwdrivers, forks and various other odds and ends.
Vintage curlers re-purposed to hold embroidery thread
