darn it

On January 16, 2010, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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Exciting news (for me)!  I finally took the plunge and bought a fancy-pants darning foot for my new sewing machine.  The whole reason I bought my newest machine was because I wanted to take up free motion embroidery, but I couldn’t get started until I had this foot.

It will arrive in the next few weeks and then the fun will begin.  The form of embroidery is so exciting to me, I hope I have some success with it.  I’ll be sure to share some of my pieces with you all.

For now I thought I’d share some of my favourite free-motion embroidery inspirations:

Girl Popcorn demo on Threadbanger

Pebble Quilt Demo

Boo Dilly’s free motion pieces

Ramonster

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wip: sew-along update

On January 16, 2010, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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Here are a shot of the project I was working on during IBTOY’s sew-along.  I’m planning on making it into a quilt block that will inspire and spawn a whole bunch of other blocks.

The embroidery reads “since always in your dreams.”  Does anyone know what thats from?

fp: deer pillow

On October 12, 2009, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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Sorry I’ve been such an absentee blogger lately.  I’ve been running in and out-of-town (meaning that I have varying degrees of access to a good internet connection).  The bright and shiny lining of this whole situation is that I’ve had lots of time to make things (Internet fixation?  No I wouldn’t say I suffer from anything like that).

Last week I finished up a little piece of embroidery I’d been working on.  A couple years ago I picked up Aunt Martha’s Baby Animals embroidery patterns, but I hadn’t sat down to work on them until now.  After finally finishing the piece I wasn’t too sure what to do with it, so I turned to everyone’s favourite standby – throw pillow.

The finished pillow is still a little wonky looking.  It needs to be used a bit to pack down the new filling then it should be looking normal.

The border fabric was found at one of my favourite thrift shops in Belleville.  I’m so glad I decided to hand wash the fabric beforehand because it bled like bananas.  I rinsed it again and again, so hopefully it’s all done with this colour shedding nonsense.

This lovely will be offered as a prize at a little baby shindig I’ll be co-hosting next month.  I’m hoping whoever picks her up will give her lots of love and a happy home.

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wip & fp: bad bird embroidery

On September 28, 2009, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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I freakin’ love Bad Bird’s (aka Andrea Zuill) embroidery patterns.  Yes, her illustrations and fibre art are amazing, but there’s just something I adore so much about the embroidery patterns.

I just finished up work on on the mermaid that was offered as the August 2008 free pattern on her blog.  She’s an adorable little sea creature.  Now I just have to decide what I’m going to do with her.  Diaper bag?  Quilt?  Appliqued to the back of a jacket?  I just can’t figure it out quite yet.

Next up on the Bad Bird roster I’ll be taking a stab at Lottie the Dog Face Girl and Siamese Sisters Rose and Daisy.  I picked up these patterns for my next arts and craft project.

I found these really cute vintage stools, but they are in desperate need of new upholstering.  How cute are these going to look on pieces of matching furniture?  I’m really excited to show off a finished product.

Gotto go and get my stitch on!

feeling inspired

On September 16, 2009, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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Pebble Quilting Demo

Originally uploaded by handmadebyalissa

I happened across this posting today and it got me feeling particularly inspired.  Frenzied and inspired.  Since watching it I’ve been searching the internet for a new machine.  I love my Old Blue, but it’s a very small model and it doesn’t have a lot of space for quilting.  I also need (want) a bunch of new attachments in order to do some free motion embroidery.

Oh gosh, I’m so excited. I’m hoping that I’ll have some happy new machine news within the next day or two.

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amy in floss

On September 6, 2009, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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Just happened upon this piece in the most recent Craft Flickr Pool update.  Muchodesign has created a simple embroidery piece inspired by the final print copy of Craft magazing.

Check out her Etsy to see the listing for yourself or her Flickr profile for more of her shots.

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99 Problems

On August 22, 2009, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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and a stitch is one.  Actually, right now it feels like stitches are all the problems I have (tough life huh?).

Tonight I’ve been searching and searching for a cool embroidery sampler by some perfect indie illustrator/pattern maker.  This is not as easy as it seems apparantly.  I’ve searched Etsy and Google, but I’m running out of steam before I’m running out of hits.  I’ll keep trying later, but I did manage to find one very exciting pattern from the folks at Sublime Stitching.  I’m feeling out of the loop, but it seems that they have licenced some work from Daniel Johnston.

Have a click on the image below for some more information on these rad designs.

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