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Wife, Mother, Mimi, lover of all things creative... sewing, embroidery, painting, collage... God and family are the most important things in my life.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Catching Up

So I missed an entire season of posting, or has it been two?   To catch up a little,  here is a little synopsis of our summer so far:

 There ha been a little kayaking...


a little bike riding...

a birthday or two, three, or four...




a lot of joy from the plant world...




some camping...


and some camp style meals...




a little tree climbing...


and a little more tree climbing...


and some close calls...

watermelon...

lots of watermelon...

a few porch napping episodes...


and lots of fun outside...


just being a kid.


I hope each of you are having a wonderful summer too!

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Little Red Riding Hood Embroidery


Happy Saturday!  I hope it is beautiful wherever you are, and that you are getting to spend your weekend just as you'd hoped you would.

I finally finished the Little Red Riding Hood embroidery that I started way too long ago.  (You may remember it from here.)  I know this is a wonky mess, but it really ended up being a series of little experiments.  I say I'm finished, but in truth, I'm thinking of adding a little cloud or two to the background before I completely quit the hand stitching.  This has been a project that has kept growing.  I started out to do just a quick outline of the picture, but then what is Red Riding Hood without a really red cape?  I had to fill it in somehow, so I attempted a small chain stitch.  After I did, the tree called for more detail.  I stitched in just a little bit (I don't even know if that is a legitimate stitch.) to suggest a bark like texture, but it didn't look right with just a few here and there.  So, of course,  I went ahead and filled in the whole trunk.  You know where that led...  those green globs of  leaves had to be filled as well.  That resulted in a wonky, haphazard mess, but I just left it that way.  This was just for fun and to get me back into the swing of embroidery.  It still keeps wanting to grow,  now it seems to need a little background.  Especially since it got a stain on it that needs covering somehow.  Oh, well, I'll see what I can do with that and then try to figure out what I'm going to do with it when I'm finished stitching.  Any ideas?  I'm leaning toward making a small quilted wallhanging.