I do find embroidery very very relaxing (and I can watch idiotic romance movies and still feel like I'm getting stuff done!) and during the first two days or so of this crazy reorganization I needed some major relaxation. Luckily, I had already planned a project that required embroidery (and no satin stitching, whew) that I needed to finish before Thanksgiving. I know you've heard Katie talk about her quilt, well I am making one too and we are going to quilt them together -- you know make the first time less scary for both of us. (still pretty scary.)
Anyhow, my quilt has an embroidered center panel. Unlike Katie who snagged up a fabric she loved in a large enough quantity to use for the quilt and other a sundries baby things later on, I only managed to get a yard and a fourth of the fabric that I loved so much. It was the end of a bolt and they are not carrying it anymore at the fabric store! I have looked online too, but I have only managed to find dog collars made out of the fabric not the fabric itself. (figures, right?) Because I'm short on my 'inspiration' fabric I used only a little of it on the quilt and needed something in the middle that matched -- well enough babble here it is:
My 'inspiration' fabric is the small allover print on cream, it is tiny leaves and foxes and squirrels in fall colors. The embroidery pattern came from here. I love this resource for embroidery, browse the whole pool here. It is supposed to be the last panel in a 'now I lay me down to sleep' set but I just liked it and none of the others. (Incidentally, amen means "it is so or so be it", which is the way I'm using it here. Hopefully my future baby takes the hint and is a good sleeper, unlike his mother.) I did modify the pattern a little and I am very pleased with the outcome.
I used back-stitch for the whole pattern -- simple. I'd say it took me 5 movies, so what around 7 hours? Sure I have 7 hours to spend on embroidering right now. (HA!) Katie likes to tease me about how tiny I make my stitches. So I took a close-up so all of the internet can tease me for it too.
Yesterday, since my quilt embroidery was done, I also made this much needed item -- an indicator for the dishwasher. You flip it one way or the other to indicate whether the dishes in the dishwasher are dirty or clean. Have I mentioned in the very near future I will be the sole woman living among 3 men? Well I will and I think this little device will serve me well. (or I hope so at least) Maybe it will convince them to put their dishes in the dishwasher instead of beside the sink. (The dishwasher broke down this week, of course, on top of everything else, so I have been doing an inordinate number of dishes and they are permeating my consciousness.)
Last, I also constructed this random fox kit from Micheal's. It was on super clearance for $1.30 and I was there to buy some white embroidery floss as it was. (to finish the dish indicator) It was relaxing to finish a project so quickly, but now I have to take it apart and put it together again with glue. (it's a little rickety as is, but what do you expect for $1.30?) Well anyway that will have to wait, because I have bigger fish to fry before this day gets its slippery little self out of my grasp.
(Oy. Not the best pictures in the world today. House is a mess and it's super grey outside, please pardon me just this once! Ok well, maybe just for a couple more weeks.)
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