Greetings from a snowy Kansas! I’m again after every week of firm and an enormous household marriage ceremony. All of the company departed Monday, in good time for a snowstorm in the present day.
And there I used to be, considering winter was over. Ha.
Final week, I discovered myself dabbling with some mini-mini initiatives. I couldn’t get the thought out of my head. Since I required flexibility in the course of the week with all the corporate and such, I made a decision simply to go together with my thought and spontaneously play with some stitching. Typically, unplanned is the way in which to go!
There’s nothing fairly so satisfying as embroidering a bunch of little issues. These little issues all began with a pile of felted wool hearts in pink and purple. They’re the right measurement to Do One thing with, though I didn’t have any actual thought what.
You may string them collectively horizontally into somewhat ornamental “bunting” factor. You may string them vertically.
You may use them for small pincushions (I had that in thoughts), small ornamental bits, or little presents of a Valentine’s kind.
When you have been actually adventurous, you can maybe sew them in your garments – form of like these puffy crocheted hearts throughout my niece’s sweater…
…in the event you actually needed to.
I actually didn’t have a set plan for my pile of little felted hearts. I simply knew I needed to do One thing with them, and that this One thing concerned embroidery.
I like the way in which they turned out!! They have been enjoyable to make, they’re cute, and fairly, and such an ideal little measurement!
Heck, I feel they’re an entire lot cuter (and lots much less obnoxious) than the ever present dialog hearts you see in all places this time of yr.
Not that I’ve something towards dialog hearts, thoughts you!
In any case, who doesn’t like candy, rock-hard, enigmatically flavored chalk, embellished with mysterious letters that would imply something?
What does this imply? Preferred You Extra Yesterday?
Though the felted hearts are fairly small, they’re a wonderfully delicious clean slate.
I attacked them with no actual plan in any respect. I grabbed my thread drawers of Heathway wool (such pretty colours!!), a pincushion full of various sized needles, and a pair of scissors. I sat down at my work desk with a pile of hearts and a few miscellany round me and simply did no matter got here to thoughts, because it occurred to me.
From easy to complicated – operating sew to bullion knots – I had enjoyable with every little coronary heart.
Whereas I used to be happy with the result on the assorted floral hearts, I feel my favourite hearts are the straightforward ones with operating stitches and little bows. They have been so fast to work up, they usually’re simply kinda cute!
Whereas I used to be enjoying round, I believed by way of “Victorian” kind Valentines, too, at one level. I believed that perhaps some white scallops across the fringe of a coronary heart could be fairly.
So I performed with that concept for a bit.
I used common floss to work this scalloped edge, utilizing scalloped buttonholed chain sew. My thought was to supply one thing somewhat extra lace-like or eyelet-like.
I knew straight away I didn’t prefer it.
I didn’t just like the distinction between the mercerized cotton (common cotton floss) and the wool. I vastly most popular the wool embroidery on the wool hearts.
After which there was one thing not fairly proper in regards to the construction of the scalloped buttonholed chain sew…
…one thing form of creepy and toothsome.
Plus, wanting on the coronary heart head-on, it appeared extra like a coronary heart with an old school toothache.
Unhappy, the truth is.
My sister Sarah who was visiting from Pennsylvania needed to aim a dialog coronary heart, however there’s not a variety of room to sew lettering very comfortably. She determined to maintain it easy – three letters in white floss.
For some cause, each time I take a look at it, the time period x rated involves thoughts. Oh pricey. I feel we should salvage that one and make it into one thing else.
All in all, it was a enjoyable experiment! I get pleasure from stitching third-dimensional objects. It’s all the time a problem, however I discover it enjoyable!
I’ll share some ideas in an upcoming weblog submit, in case you’re questioning methods to do one thing related on small pre-made 3-D objects. And I’ll have some pretty pre-felted objects so that you can play with, too. With spring arising, there are such a lot of prospects!
Hope your week goes nicely up to now! See you Friday!
