When you over buy wool in order to make sure you don’t run out making your American Duchess Cape, it stands to reason that you will use said material to create a Hobbit-y Corset Top with peplum, covered all over in botanically and nature inspired embroidery that will certainly take you forever to actually finish. …
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In a hole in the ground…
After completing several embroidery courses on Domestika.org, I decided to use some of the stitches learned to design a work of my own. I have loved Tolkien’s world for years and after seeing some amazing interpretations of hobbit holes I decided to attempt one myself. I envisioned a foliage rich, super textured piece, almost completely …
Embroidering The Child… This is the Way….
As the Twitter user @lindseyromain said… “i’ve never seen the entire internet united by undying love for something like baby yoda before and I refuse to be cynical about it. he is the child we conceived together and the child we deserve.” Well said… well said. I went cuckoo for the porgs in Star Wars: …
The Artistic Intoxication of Embroidery
I can’t say exactly when I first started being pulled towards hand embroidery. I remember pinning several “geeky” themed embroideries on Pinterest like this Harry Potter Themed hoop by pinkleo on Craftster. For a long time though I pretty much dismissed hand embroidery as impractical, purely decorative, and non-functional. I mean, I have limited crafting …