Simply Sublime

I've been on a little embroidery binge for a few days. I finally finished the Reform School Girl from Sublime Stitching's Mitch O'Connell set. Mmmmm Mitch O'Connell.. Would not mind if Sublime Stitching would come up with another set from him.

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I think she looks good. I didn't do as well as I would have hoped on the face, but the flame turned out so well I had to take a close up on it.

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The flames consist of 3 colors. Kinda nice, right? Took quite a while too. That's actually why I didn't finnish this for a long time. After I did the flames I put this aside for a few weeks.

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This next one is from the Sublime Stitching Craft Pad. At first I got to say that I thought it was very weird that I found myself wanting to embroider a freaking fairy. But then I told myself that the fairy was kinda pin-up-ish, so it was ok.

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This time I like how the facial features came out! And there's even orange there! Anyone who knows me knows that I HATE orange. But as an effort to try and tolerate it I started to use it in small amounts. First as one of 3 colors in the flames in reform school girl, and now in small amounts just by itself. I can live with it. I can. Maybe.

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Oh, oh I did a little knitting too. I knitted this cute little pink cabled purse for "fill a purse swap".

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It's knitted with Novita's Samos yarn. And I made up the pattern as I went along. Oh, and the best part: my swap partner really liked it.

288

No, no. It's not post 288, still far from it. The title is referring to this buttons I got from my moms friend. Guess how many there are? (wow, how did you ever figure that one out?)

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Isn't she nice to me? Some of the buttons are ones that she's been holding on to since the 60's and the 70's. And now she just gave them to me. I loooove buttons.

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As you can see I also did some crochet, I made some reflective brooches. The inspiration for these came for the ever-so-lovely Wilma and her brooches.

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Oh, oh, I have to new favourites to sing at karaoke: I Love Rock N Roll and Shanghain Valot.

Love, Rage & Liberation

I love tote bags. Love them and need them. I always carry a tote bag with me in my purse/handbag (what ever you want to call them). I also love leopard print. And the saying: Love, Rage & Liberation. And I love Pippi Longstocking. So this tote bag is next to perfect.

And yes..that is my foot in the picture

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I thought the back needed a little something, so I added an applique heart. Kinda cute, right?

Tiny Little Knitting

It feels like I have about a millon knit/crochet projects in the works, but I can't seem to be able to get anything done. So I started a whole new project. Sounds logical, right?

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I made myself a little knitting-pride brooch. I used the mini sweater ornament pattern from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. I knitted it with black and white Lyric yarn and 2,5mm double point needles. It was sort of fun to make. But I have to admid that I really should build up my patience so I would enjoy tiny little projects with loads of yarn ends to weave in more.

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Hey, did you know that the lovely Cass is in need of a bitch? Well I did, and I wanted to help her out. Sadly I couldn't be her bitch. I would make a bad bitch, since a)I live too far b)I'm lazy c)I talk back, and d)I don't take direction very well. But I felt the need to do something to show my support:

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I made her a cross stitch. My second ever cross stitch, and I altered a subversive cross stitch pattern a bit for it. And assuming that Cass is not just being nice, she really liked it! I'm happy.

Pretty Little Things

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Aren't they cute? I bought two of them yoyo making things at a craft fair, and I just can't seem to be able to stop making them. Can you make yoyos perfectly well without any thingy? Of course you can, but gadgets are more than half the fun. At least to me

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I always wear my hair up. (Ok, almost always.) It's either in a ponytail or in a bun sort of thing. I usually hold it up with plain black thingys, but sometimes a girl needs something special. I just love the polka dot bows

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I also made more of those button earrings because they're so cute.

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These three are my favourite of the new ones: (you can't tell that well in the picture, but the ones on the top left have glitter on them)

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Yeah, yeah. Yet another post with no knitting or crochet in it. But don't you worry, I have both knitting & crochet in the works. But they're or a swap so I can't talk more about them yet.

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A few days ago I put a tiny counter on my blog to see if anyone reads this (a part from the lovely people who leave comments). Imagine my surprice when I found out that I do actually get hits!

Mad New Skill

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I learned to cross stitch! It's not really difficult, just takes a shit load of time. But maybe it'll get faster when one has done more of it. The reason I learned to cross stitch was that I heard about the Subversive Cross Stitch book, and had to have it.

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I am aware that the fabric is too small for the frame, but it was only in the frame for the photo. The frame has moved up to bigger and better things now.

Barbie Is A B....

Oh come on, don't act all offended, we all know she is.

But what am I going to do with this embroidery? Any suggestions?I just wanted to stitch it, even when I only had some faint ideas as to what it's going to end up as

I used backstitch and satin stitch on it and 3 strands of embroisery floss. And I had to use a plastic hoop 'cos for some weird reason I don't seem to be able to find my wooden one. Obviously this has nothing to do with my apartment being a mess.. 'cos it's not. Really. Oh well...