Here are some more things I've made.
Here are some more pillows I made! Making pillows is fun and I'm learning a lot in the process. The first is from the Black Apple/Sublime Stitching pattern. You can't really tell, but I weaved some glow in the dark thread on the ghost and on the first, middle, and last roof tops. I was proud of that. I wish I could get a picture of the glow but that never really shows up in pics. At least not the little digital thing I have.
And, here is one I did from a Red Velvet Art pattern. It's my favorite.
Red Velvet Art Cupcakes!
Last but not least, this is from The Little Prince.
I can't wait to give all of these gifts to my friends. I really hope they like them!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
More Handmade Christmas
I like that I can embroider things for people because I think I am the worst gift-giver. I just don't know what to get people. So I make stuff.
Here is a pillow I made for a friend of mine. It's from the fan dancer pattern in the Sublime Stitching Embroidered Effects book. It's the first pillow I've ever made! I've got four more to make. I'm quite proud of that stitching...
And here is another Natalie Dee inspired piece. I made it for my work friend Brooke who loves Natalie Dee.
And here is another Natalie Dee inspired piece. I made it for my work friend Brooke who loves Natalie Dee.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Other Goodies
I made this for my friend Lynn from an Urban Threads pattern. www.urbanthreads.com
I made this apron using a Red Velvet Art font and some tarts I made out of felt that are also inspired by a Red Velvet Art tote. www.redvelvetart.com
That's all for now! I gotta get back to it!
I made this apron using a Red Velvet Art font and some tarts I made out of felt that are also inspired by a Red Velvet Art tote. www.redvelvetart.com
That's all for now! I gotta get back to it!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Cards and Gifts
Why is everyone's fucking birthday in December?? My sister, my grandparents, my friend Liz... I guess I should make them cards. Also here are a few Xmas gifts I have completed. I sadly did not get a picture of my sister's card, somehow...
For Liz. This is the first time that I have made a card with embroidery. It's pretty easy. The bird is from the Sublime Stitching Embroidered Effects book.
For my Granny- The pattern is also from the Sublime Stitching Embroidered Effects book:
For my Grandad who likes to build things. I found this illustration on Natalie Dee's blog- www.nataliedee.com:
For my dad who loves John Deere tractors (his bday was in November, but I won't see him until Christmas). I did a random search for tractor embroidery and found this one: And here is some embroidery on cloth!
This is for my friend Stephanie. I did a portrait of her in the style of the Red Velvet Art girls:
This is on an apron I did for my friend Brandi who is one of those people who rides her bike everywhere. I think it's cute, and I wish I could do that here. It's also from a Red Velvet Art pattern.
Here is an apron I did for my friend Liz, who likes tattoos and baking. I found the pattern a while back while doing a search for embroidery patterns:
Here's one for my friend Chris, who is Liz's boyfriend. He's also my tattoo artist. He likes random weird stuff put together, like a unicorn swearing to a pegasus about Europe. The unicorn and pegasus is a Badbird pattern, and I found the funny quote on Stephanie Tillman's Flickr page, but I preferred these guys to the ants in the original pattern.
That's all for now. More to come!
For Liz. This is the first time that I have made a card with embroidery. It's pretty easy. The bird is from the Sublime Stitching Embroidered Effects book.
For my Granny- The pattern is also from the Sublime Stitching Embroidered Effects book:
For my Grandad who likes to build things. I found this illustration on Natalie Dee's blog- www.nataliedee.com:
For my dad who loves John Deere tractors (his bday was in November, but I won't see him until Christmas). I did a random search for tractor embroidery and found this one: And here is some embroidery on cloth!
This is for my friend Stephanie. I did a portrait of her in the style of the Red Velvet Art girls:
This is on an apron I did for my friend Brandi who is one of those people who rides her bike everywhere. I think it's cute, and I wish I could do that here. It's also from a Red Velvet Art pattern.
Here is an apron I did for my friend Liz, who likes tattoos and baking. I found the pattern a while back while doing a search for embroidery patterns:
Here's one for my friend Chris, who is Liz's boyfriend. He's also my tattoo artist. He likes random weird stuff put together, like a unicorn swearing to a pegasus about Europe. The unicorn and pegasus is a Badbird pattern, and I found the funny quote on Stephanie Tillman's Flickr page, but I preferred these guys to the ants in the original pattern.
That's all for now. More to come!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Stephanie Tillman
Have I posted about Stephanie Tillman yet? I think her illustrations are so funny with the little quotes. I've printed some of her illustrations out and made gifts for some people. This one is for my work friend Brooke. It sounds like something we would say to each other. And it's random and funny which are things we like.
I love it when I see pieces posted at work that I have given my friends. It's so fun to stitch these up for them!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Cate Anevski Facebroideries
My name is Joanne and I cannot draw a straight line to save my life. I trace my patterns onto the fabric and I try REALLY hard to get the lines straight but I just cannot seem to do it. Oh well. I guess I'll have to just stitch up a hundred of these facebroideries by Cate Anevski to get some practice!
I don't know what it is about her illustrations that draw me in and really resonnate with me. They are weird and cute and on some level, a wee bit creepy. I am in love. I have several of these and lots of little fat quarters on which to stitch them! Hopefully I will get better. I want these faces all over my house, in random places!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Wedding Stitches
A friend from high school is getting married on November 7th, and I'm very happy for her. It's strange... I haven't seen her in probably 15 years, maybe longer, but we are friends on social media, and she has invited a bunch of us from high school who were part of the weirdo crowd, and I think it will be a fun little mini-reunion, as well as a fun wedding in general. I do love weddings.
I made her this. It's from the Sublime Stitching Craft Pad. Sorry for the crooked picture. I am pretty happy with the way it came out. Just needs an iron and I'll pop it in a frame!
I also just bought the Sublime Stitching Country Cool and Word Balloon patterns, and three skeins of glow in the dark floss from a local shop here in Austin called Ginger's Needle Arts. They said they think she's discontinuing the Word Balloon pattern. I've learned that I'd better get my hands on her discontinued patterns or I'll never, ever have them. Boo! I think she discontinued the Handmade Nation one, and I'm sad that I didn't pick it up when I had the chance. :( Anyway, I have Christmas present ideas for those patterns and I can't wait to start them.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading, Kristi, since you're mostly the only one who does ;) haha! And if anyone else happened upon this, thanks to you, too :)
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Oh, they're weird and they're wonderful!
When I saw these Tara McPherson patterns that Sublime Stitching collaborated on, I had to get them. This is the only one I've done so far. I'm gonna give it to Rebecca because when I mentioned the patterns, she exclaimed how much she loves Tara McPherson's illustrations.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wild Olive's Teeny Tinies- Image Heavy!!
Here are some Teeny Tinies from Wild Olive. They are so danged cute! Not sure what I'll do with them...
These are so wittle tiny that it was hard to do some of them.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Le Petite Prince
Have you ever read The Little Prince? A bunch of people I know are obsessed with it. I guess it's what the hipsters are into these days... and so naturally I had to find out what the fuss was about. It is, at the same time, cute, sweet, and heartbreaking.
I'm really happy with how this turned out. I'm not sure what I'll do with it but... I'll figure it out!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
So Many Patterns, So Little Time
I have so many things I want to stitch up. I have a ton of Wild Olive and Sublime Stitching patterns I've not done yet. I have a ton of other stuff as well that I've just found or people have passed down to me as well. And I've drawn up a couple of little things myself. I never know where to start, and I always get overwhelmed, so I decided to make a list. I have friends who have moved into new apartments, birthdays, and Christmas coming up, so I made a list of people I'm doing embroidery projects for, and I started on it Thursday.
I did this one from an Urban Threads pattern. Yes, I know, they are evil, but I got this stuff before I knew they were evil and I'm not about to pitch it! I made it for my friend who's just moved into a new place.
This is another for his roommate- the pattern is by Annie Oakleaves. Here, I tried my hand at coloring the fabric. I'm a terrible color-er. I have the tendency to color in one direction and then totally switch it up, and I have to learn that is a no-no. But I think it came out okay anyhow. The satin stitch for his cape is pretty good, I'm very proud of that!
That's it for now!
Friday, October 9, 2009
October Friends
I have at least three friends with October birthdays. Branden, Chenin and Rebecca. Branden is a man and I don't think needs any embroidery pieces. Chenin I think lives in CA and would probably love an embroidery piece so maybe I'll hit her up for her address.
But Rebecca lives here and she loves the embroideries I have done for her. I think I ran across this on a vintage pattern site, but I can't remember. She has a similar tattoo.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Sublime Stitching x Model Citizen
I saw this on Sublime Stitching's blog and I can't find the pattern for sale, so I printed it out and stitched it up for my sister. I thought it was cute that this tiger girl is kind of punk rock with tattoos, and I thought of my sister immediately!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The Cake is a Lie
Here is something I made for my boyfriend. It's from some game he's playing... Portal, maybe? I got the cake from an Urban Threads pattern, I think, and then I just did the letters like old school computer font.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Deathwish Dena
Ooookay, here is a Roller Girl that I did for my friend Deathwish Dena, who just joined a roller derby team here in Austin. I forget which team. So see, I'm not that gooda friend.
Anyhow, this is a Sublime Stitching pattern that I borrowed from a friend. For some reason, I was sort of intimidated by this one as well. Maybe because it's so detailed. But I think it came out nicely!
Anyhow, this is a Sublime Stitching pattern that I borrowed from a friend. For some reason, I was sort of intimidated by this one as well. Maybe because it's so detailed. But I think it came out nicely!
Mystery Gift- Thank You!
So I was sitting here at home, watching those horrible Judge shows on my day off, when there is a knock at my door. When I opened the door, there was a dude who handed me a padded envelope. Inside that envelope was the Sublime Stitching Craft Pad, which has tons of rad embroidery patterns.
I did not order this. There was no invoice for this in the package. Using my amazing skills of deductive reasoning, I came to the conclusion that SOMEONE has sent me a gift, and for some reason, did not include anything telling me who they were!
I love mystery gifts. If you're reading this, thank you so much. It makes me feel special.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Doodle Stitch
I found this doodle stitch online and printed it out so I could stitch it up. It came out really cute! I worked on most of it this morning as I waited for an oil change. I love how portable this hobby is. I can do it ANYWHERE! I just don't like it when people stare and ask questions. It's annoying. But I'm always nice, because hey, maybe I would be curious too. This is an Aimee Ray pattern. I love her doodly style,
Friday, September 25, 2009
Weekly Woes
I've been really busy this week. My car broke down and I had to go car shopping and stress about that for two days. Then I went to the premieres of Cabin Fever 2 and Zombieland. It's a wonder I've had time to do any sort of embroidery. But I did! Here is one of my very favorite things- a mushroom house.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Anniversary Weekend and More Embroidery
We went to San Antonio for a night to celebrate our 3rd dating anniversary. Besides making fun of many, many things, this is what I did on the way.
I'm giving this to my mom after I iron and frame it.
And here is my first embroidery done from a Natalie Dee picture. She is awesome. I plan to do several more. If you're not familiar with her, visit her at www.nataliedee.com.
I'm giving this to my mom after I iron and frame it.
And here is my first embroidery done from a Natalie Dee picture. She is awesome. I plan to do several more. If you're not familiar with her, visit her at www.nataliedee.com.
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