Stitching Kind of Morning

You know those kind of mornings when you wake up and all is peaceful and quiet with the world?  Before all the hectic noise of traffic leaving for work, the garbage man dumping the trashcans or the dogs in the neighborhood discovering they still have voices....those are the kinds of morning I just love.  Time to get up, slip something warm on my cold feet (Fall has arrived this week in sunny Southern California) and put on a pot of coffee.  I can sit quietly and concentrate on the sewing project at hand.

Well my passion right now is still embroidery so I have another hand-stitched project I am working on.  It's a little bird with a tea pot.

I am not sure what I plan to turn this into, but I am kind of leaning towards making it the focal point on an apron.  Or I could turn it into a placemat?  I've made so many cushions lately, that I feel I need to turn this into something else.  Anyone have any other brilliant suggestions for me on what I could make with it?  Leave me some comments, I would love to hear from you.  Here is a little preview of what I have completed on this project so far.  Not a whole lot, but it is coming together quite nicely.

Don't you love my pretty sewing tin in the background.  I had to have it when I saw it in Scotland.  I was in a quaint little coastal village called North Berwick, and there it was staring me in the face.  It came loaded with threads, scissors, needles, pins and more.  I have since taken all of that stuff out, and replaced it with my own sewing threads, scissors and needles that I am using on my hand sewing projects.  I love the old fashioned vintage look of the tin - it just makes me smile looking at it.

Well back to the normal boring stuff, like cleaning house and laundry - bah humbug!   I hope you all have a great day and I will be back soon with more sewing goodies to share :-)

Welcome

Welcome to my new sewing blog.  I have wanted to share my sewing projects with family and friends, and even strangers for quite a while now.  I love to quilt and sew.  So here we go with my first project. Well it is not my first sewing project, as I have been at it a few years lol, but it is my first project I am sharing with you all.

I have recently rediscovered the joy of embroidery.  I have embroidered quite a few different pictures over the past few weeks, and have decided to turn them into cushions.  My first one is a cute little duck, enhanced with 1930's fabrics.  I adore 1930's fabrics because they are so bright and vibrant and fun.  This is a 10 inch cushion, so it is little, but would make a great addition to a little one's nursery or bedroom.  I do eventually plan on starting my own Etsy shop.  I have a card shop but have never ventured into the Etsy sewing realm.  Sometimes I question whether I am good enough to sell what I make, but I guess I will never know unless I try.  So that is the plan for the near future - get that Etsy store up and running and see what the future brings.

Back to the little duck project.  As I said earlier, I have chosen 1930's fabrics to enhance my embroidery.  I ordered a line of fabric called "Chloe's Closet"by Moda,  and I am in love with it.  I only ordered a small 2 1/2 inch sample package of the line and wish I had ordered more. It's adorable.  It brightens up my little duck :-)

So without further adieu here's the little duckling.

The beautiful fabric line "Chloe's Closet" by Moda.  There were so many beautiful patterns and colors to choose from, I had a difficult time deciding which ones to pick.

I finally picked the colors I wanted and started adding them to the top and bottom of the embroidery.

And then it was time to add on the sides.

I then had to pick out some other fabric for a border to co-ordinate with Chloe's Closet.  I chose this pretty purple and white 1930's fabric.

How cute is this.  I love the way it turned out - the colors compliment the stitchery.

Another close-up shot

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my first project.  I have lots more ideas and creativity to share with you, so I hope you will add this blog to your favorites and come back and visit me often.  You just never know what you are going to find :-)