As I mentioned before, I had come up against a bit of a creative block where my designs were concerned. So I thought it might be good to blow those cobwebs away by stitching up someone else's designs. Luckily the perfect project leapt at me from one of my favourite Facebook pages,
In Caroline's Etsy shop she sells (amongst all the other amazing and beautiful artwork) a brilliant PDF colouring book, Colour Me Happy, which is perfect for turning into embroidery patterns, so I downloaded this and chose
a design. (there are 10 to choose from).
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| Making a start - using trellis filled in with French knots. |
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| Flowers are a great way of using lots of colour and stitch variety. |
I chose a vibrant turquoise linen to stitch on and used some gorgeous Weeks Dye Works over-dyed
embroidery floss (a favourite of mine at the moment)
I scaled the design up slightly and this fitted nicely in to my 10" hoop, so quite large.
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| An overall view - about an hour into The Hobbit by now! |
I transferred this design using a light box and a pencil but you could transfer it which ever way you
find easiest.
I might do a post on different transfer methods? would anyone like that?
And here it is finished! It only took me a week!, I stitched through the whole of The Hobbit and then a bit here and there in the evenings
If you'd like to do this yourself please visit Caroline's Etsy shop for the downloadable booklet
It's great and I intend to stitch lots more from it (which I'll share with you)
A bonus was that whilst I stitched my little one could sit and colour in some more print-outs!
Find it here http://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/128765204/colour-me-happy-pdf-downloadable?ref=shop_home_active
Keep a look out here for stitch tutorials on some of the stitches that you see here .
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