The Accidental Embroiderer

A nice bright owl from the past

One thing that's stopped me from posting regularly is that at the moment I’m up to my ears in various private jobs and commissions. This means that although I’m still designing and digitising madly, I can’t really post the work here, or not at the moment anyway. So I’m going back in the files to find some old designs that haven’t yet seen the light of day here on the blog

This one is so old that I have no memory of when I did it, or what inspired it, although it was probably during one of my folk art phases. It was done for my friend Cherri, who stitched it out. As you can see, it’s a pocket design, showing the owl perched on the edge of a pocket. I love this sort of thing and have a lot of pocket designs sketched out in the files, so all I need now is time to digitise them! So I expect that you’ll see a lot more of them in the months to come

 

The bright owl sitting on his pocket

 

Bur meanwhile, this is a nice colourful example of the sort of thing that can be done

Birds, flowers, and yet more birds and flowers

Things have been really busy recently, what with a very interesting painting workshop to attend, embroidery commissions to finish and also trying to prepare some new collections for my “store” at the Secrets of Embroidery website.

For my latest “Secrets” collection I’ve got rather carried away with the theme of colourful birds among leaves and colourful flowers - I’ve done so many of these that you can expect something of the kind as the next freebie in a couple of weeks

Meanwhile here are two from the “Secrets” collection. They’re not posted there yet although I should get around to doing that in the next couple of weeks. But this is more or less what they’ll look like when they get there

 

Well, you can't say they're not colourful!

An embarrassing admission!

I have just noticed that there is a little tiny glitch in the design I posted yesterday - it's so small that I didn't catch it when I tested the design. But it's there anyway! If you'd like the corrected version just re-load the design again from the original post - I've corrected the mistake, small though t is

Oh well, accidents will happen even with the best intentions!

Back at last, with a freebie for June

Well, that break from blogging was quite long enough! I still haven’t finished all my commissions, but I’ve made enough progress to take a short break from them and get back to the blog. And it’s time for a freebie for June. It’s nothing spectacular, just a small, bright flower patch that might go well on pockets or perhaps on an embroidered quilt. It’s for the 4x4 inch (100 m x 100 mm) hoop and should be quite straightforward to stitch out

 

A simple bright flower patch

 

Here is the design, in .pes v.6. Once again, I'm not bothering with a worksheet, just because it's a very simple design and it's pretty obvious what the different colours are. But if you'd like one, or would like any help at all, just let me know via the "Comments" section