Believe in the Power of Beautiful Stuff

I believe that knitting is probably the number one portable craft, but my protable craft of choice is embroidery.

It’s probably not that most intelligent choice, you need lots of sharp things like tiny needles and tiny scissors, but I have a small case that carries everything I need.

Because I work two jobs, I like to carry around my projects for that boring lunch hour or if I get a short break where I need to be quiet for a few moments.  I recently finished 2 tea towels and then spent last Sunday night putting a little trim on each one and backing them with a coordinating fabric.

Both of my tea towels came from Sublime Stitching, as I agree with a lot of the girls over at Craftster, they have the best texture to stitch on.

I stitched this one because I was looking for an excuse to use that bobble trim that I kept seeing at Joann’s Fabric. The pattern is from Sublime Stitching but part of Jenny’s Artist Series, this one was designed by Lisa Petrucci.

Because I work two jobs, I like to carry around my projects for that boring lunch hour or if I get a short break where I need to be quiet for a few moments.  I recently finished 2 tea towels and then spent last Sunday night putting a little trim on each one and backing them with a coordinating fabric.

 I backed this one with a predominatley orange batik fabric that had tiny but vibrant bits of yellow throughout.

You can kind of see the texture of the towels in this last picture. See how I got that grid effect in the puppy’s fur? That’s due to the texture of the towel, it’s almost comparable to a looser cross stitch fabric called Aida cloth.

This mermaid towel was a crafty feeling I had last week and I needed a project to keep my hands busy. I had iron on the pattern month ago but never went any further.

Her tail and the gold flecks in her hair were done with DMC’s satin floss, which is one of my favorite threads to use when I have to fill in larger spaces. The satin floss seems to be able to fill in more quickly, that might be my mind doing tricks on me though. The large ric-rac was an afterthough, sort of the top of the waves in the ocean.

This one was also backed with a batick fabric, it has a blue-ish green bubbly texture; it felt very “under the sea”.

I wish I could have gotten a better picture of the texture of the starfish. He es done all in french knots, so he’s got a swirly texture.

No matter what, there will always be wrinkles around her tail *sigh*

The bubbles were done in a very light blue with a touch of iridescent blending filament. Very bubbly and shiny.