Shabby Chic Mothers Day Cards

Our 2 mums LOOOve donkeys. So what better than a

cute donkey card, made by me ;) ,

for Mothers Day.

A childs vintage hanky and some delicious lace,

a  mixture of stitching and a scattering of beads and bling.

And Voila.!!

pretty cute (if I dont say so myself ;) )

Quick, and fun and oh so cute :)

Anyone else make anything for Mothers day,

or recieved anything handmade?

Fun, fun stitching

Phillipa

Shabby Collage Book #1 Cont.

Some more eye candy :)

The Cover.(above)

Stitch-stitch-stitch

Phillipa

April CQJP Block done

Another done. :)

Dont forget that you can get a better looksee by double-clicking on the image :)

More happy stitching

Phillipa

CQJP has been updated

Head on over to the site

Crazy Quilt Journal Project

As they have updated the site and all our blocks submitted so far are under our names,

on our own pages.

 This is sooo cool :)

Happy stitching

Phillipa





Shabby Collage Book.#1. Finished

All done :)

I thoroughly enjoyed this project. It is beautifully tactile and squishy

with a few blank spaces for the addition of little tid-bits as I find them.

I've taken heaps of photos, but so I don't bore you to death, I will put them up over a couple of seperate posts.

Back View

Front

A very pretty necklace that was broken, is perfect to embellish the binding. (Thanks Mum)

And now for your viewing pleasure.

Ohhh I love to stitch :)

Phillipa









Tutorial. Encrusting with French Knots

As I mentioned in my last post, quite a few stitchers out there are creating Encrusted Rocks. It all stems from this article here in

Stitch Magazine. Wonderful stitching done by

Jennifer Rochester.

This is My how-to as I did it :)

 

A selection of buttons and small curtain rings that i found at a charity shop. I didnt use the tube bead after all.

 

2 Layers of fabric. The bottom one in the hoop.

 

 

Randomly stitched the objects between the layers.

I didnt worry about the lumps n bumps

as they add texture as I added the stitching. :)

 

Some of the French knots are tight and some loose to add more texture.Woven bars and woven spider web over the lumps.

a dash of lichen shaded threads to add colour here n there and

a yummy, very textured piece is created.

Now for another trip to the seaside. :)

The coast at Birdlings Flat is all stones.

 

 All sizes and all washed smooth. Just perfect for this project.

 

Happy Knotting

 

Phillipa

 

 

 

 

 

French Knot Encrusting

Over the past few weeks Ive noticed other bloggers are into stitching encrusted rocks.

Well of course I had to as well.  Here are a few shots of the encrusting done but still waiting for our next trip to the coast to collect appropriate sized rocks.

These are such fun.

And then of course, I like to be different.

I had to experiment with red on redwool. And it worked out just fine.

That "is" a pinky red thread that is showing a brighter colour, not just the camera changing the colour. A brighter colour to add some zing.

Next post I will show my version of the encrusted rock. step-by-step.

Rocking Happily

Phillipa 



Stitching slowly

More photos of my Stitching-slowly work is over here.

Slowly-slowly

Phillipa

Do You Bewitch your man??

Dont you just love these older advertisements. ;)

Happy Bewitching..:)

Phillipa