Hello, friends! How are all my fellow northern-hemisphere dwellers settling into fall? Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve had some much-needed rain this last week.
I love where I live!
In my house, we’re coming to terms with the end of summer. Today my eldest had his first day of high school, which he was excited about. My younger kids start school tomorrow. I think everyone is looking forward to being on a normal schedule, but we will all miss sleeping in!
I’m hoping that them being in school will give me a little more time to devote to the blog and to doing some design work.
Last week, I talked about the foot pedal on my sewing machine going kaput. My new pedal arrived, but there was an issue: the light was going off whenever I put the pedal down. But after a little ‘don’t try this at home’ jury-rigging from my husband, it worked just fine. I’m so glad he’s smart!
In the meantime, I worked more on my embroidery project.
I’m always on the go, so I need to have something I can throw in my purse and work on at any time. After completing the hand sewing portion of the Quilt of Champions, I settled on this project.
I improvised the design as I went along, since this project is all about freedom in creativity and the joy of the making process.
I’ll be sharing progress of this project as I go along, but since I don’t want my recipient to know about it quite yet, the over all plan is going to stay secret for now. But I can say that the embroidery you’ll be seeing in the weeks to come are all for the same thing, and it is quilting-related! 🙂
Happy Sewing, ~L
This week, I’m linking up to:
laurel poppy & pine 
Oooh! I love this and whoever is getting it is really lucky – I mean, there’s even more embroidery and a quilt involved? It’s going to be spectacular!
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Thank you! I’m having a lot of fun with this project!
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It’s stunning – I love it! I love to make up my own embroidery stuff, too. It’s so cool that one can pretty much do whatever one wants with embroidery. Fantastic job, love it!
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I’m so glad you stopped by, Carrie! I’ve heard before that embroidery is like slow drawing, and I thought it was a great description. You really can do so much with it.
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Oh I love the way that came together. Reminds me of a mandala. Hoping some rain comes to us soon. We’re drying up down here in So Cal!
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A mandala was actually my inspiration for this! Hope you get some rain too. You definitely need it. Thanks for stopping by and following, Katie!
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this is really beautiful. Your colours are perfect. Love the way the simple stitches become so rich and mesmerising.
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Thank you so much, Aileen!
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Love your embroidery! I am learning embroidery at the moment – so many possibilities and never enough time!
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Very true!
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Beautiful work!!
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Thanks!
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