~ Needle Love ~

Good Morning Friends & Folk!

sunny & COLD one today ~ 

… wood stoves are stocked, coffee & tea are brewing :)

I am happy that you liked yesterdays' posting!!! 

I'm always interested in other designer's thread/color choices

~ so thought it might be of help to share mine.

I've finished a few little embroidered bits to share with you ~

these are the ones I've been working on lately

{with many more in my basket of tricks}

bowl-ful of stitched goodness

these are small works of heART, as I like to call them…

wearable folk art…folk embroidery

F U N

I don't plan on what to stitch, really…just a passing thought then

I just let my needle & threads dictate to me.

… these aren't quite 'finish' finished though,

they will be made into necklaces & brooches still….

need to add findings and other small accoutrements to bring them to their finality.

'girl in striped skirt' 

'bees knees'

'fly away'

'spiro-bloom'

'bowl & poppies'

'leaning tulip'

I've used a mixture of materials for these, wool yarn, wool strips, beads

DMC floss & Valdani perle cottons too.

the fabrics are all from scraps saved from previous projects, 

and they are filled with cotton batt, scraps of wool & fabric and a sprinkle of lavender.

{of course, Iggy has to add to my work always, so yes, we do consider cat-hair a usable fiber here}

;)

~ here are the backs, 

and you can see how I've pieced together scraps and added my labels ~

* i love them *

I find the act of embroidery to be very fulfilling & freeing...

&

I think I will be adding more folk embroidery to my repertoire of patterns ~

perhaps even PDF downloadable ones too! yippeeeee!

please tell me your thoughts on embroidery…

do you love it? hate it?

something you've done or would like to do?

what fibers do you use?

If you're interested, I have created a group on Facebook called

Humble Work Hand Embroidery

and you can click HERE to request to join us!

also, you can see my Embroidery Folk board on Pinterest by clicking

HERE

{but I must warn you….Pinterest is ADDICTING!!!!}

Hoping you all can find some time today to create something beautiful!!!

***UPDATED****
these, and more of my finished humble embroidered-things 
will be available at the Winter in the Valley Show on Feb 6th 
as well as www.Earlyworkmercantile.net  on Feb 1st and in my Etsy shop :)

~ Blessings from the Farm ~ 

 Lori