As I am a top procrastinator and seem to read more about crafts than doing them, I am going to set myself soem challenges for the next year. My hope is that if they are on here then I will feel more inclined to do them!
1) Finish city and guilds and get qualification.
2) Open Etsy shop, have at least 5 items on there and look into selling on www.notonthehighstreet.com
3) Finish my Iceland embroidery
4) Finish my patchwork quilt
5) Make a meditation cushion for Mr Jones
6) Produce an embroidery from my own pattern
7) Make myself a new bag- I love my current one but it is starting to get holes so I would like to copy the pattern but make a new version of it.
8) Make a linen top for Mr Jones and a cotton bodice top for me
9) Go on a course to learn something new
10) Finish bean bag chair which has been in the planning stage for a while now
I shall keep you updated on my progress and hope to have made progress on all ten my 1st August 2013: I know, I am already cheating and giving myself a bit more than a year, but, you might as well round to the nearest start of the month ;-)
Love,
Mrs Jones
x
Showing posts with label Iceland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iceland. Show all posts
Monday, 9 July 2012
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Getting into embroidery
Well after the success of my machine embroidered poppy, I decided to have a go at a hand embroidered one. I found this book at a car boot:
And started out with some chain stitch. It was relatively easy and I followed it with some cross stitch, basic running stitch and leaf stitch. I was relatively pleased with the results.
I enjoyed doing it so much that I decided to follow it up with some more little embroideries:
which will hopefully be framed and added to my etsy shop.
In between doing this I have been working on a larger embroidery that I picked up while on holiday in Iceland- a great project that is easy to pick up and put down!
But, these have meant that I have been neglecting my life-long cross stitch project!
I started this project when I was 15 and it was intended to be finished for the birth of my cousin. She is now 12, wouldn't really appreciate it any more, but I still pick it up from time to time and would love for it to be finished by the time Mr Jones and I have our own children (date unknown!!). I just find cross stitch a pain though because there is so much counting involved (you wouldn't believe that I am a Maths graduate!) and embroidery is so much more free even if you are following a pattern of sorts.
Lots of love,
Mrs Jones
x
And started out with some chain stitch. It was relatively easy and I followed it with some cross stitch, basic running stitch and leaf stitch. I was relatively pleased with the results.
I enjoyed doing it so much that I decided to follow it up with some more little embroideries:
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| I particularly like her hair |
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| Obviously this is a work in progress! |
which will hopefully be framed and added to my etsy shop.
In between doing this I have been working on a larger embroidery that I picked up while on holiday in Iceland- a great project that is easy to pick up and put down!
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| As it is shown on the packaging |
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| The flowers on one side |
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| The flowers on the other side |
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| So far! |
But, these have meant that I have been neglecting my life-long cross stitch project!
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| How it will eventually look |
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| So far! |
I started this project when I was 15 and it was intended to be finished for the birth of my cousin. She is now 12, wouldn't really appreciate it any more, but I still pick it up from time to time and would love for it to be finished by the time Mr Jones and I have our own children (date unknown!!). I just find cross stitch a pain though because there is so much counting involved (you wouldn't believe that I am a Maths graduate!) and embroidery is so much more free even if you are following a pattern of sorts.
Lots of love,
Mrs Jones
x
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